Job Description:

Mandatory Skills - Network Implementation

Additional Skills - Network Architecting

Certifications: CCNP bare min/CCIA Enterprise networks preferred

the UK, and also to provide technical guidance and governance on key projects delivering new capability to CNI Networks.

The individual will be responsible along with the rest of the CNI Networks Team for management of, all third party services supporting the networks, operational telephony, & satellite telemetry underpinning all CNI systems and services. These networks support the management and operation of the UK gas networks (Distribution & Transmission) and electric networks & Operational Telephony (Transmission) in the UK.

Duties will include:

• Manage all of the resources including third party service providers in the provision of operational management and control of CNI SCADA and CNI networks, ensuring that they are fully resilient, safe and secure.
• Work with IS, the business and all third party stakeholders to ensure that any changes to the networks and associated hardware are not going to affect the safe operational control of the networks.
• Work with Audit, Security and any other outside Government organisations to ensure that the support operation is compliant with policies and standards expected of critical CNI networks.
• Participation in out of hour's rota for the management of incidents on CNI networks ensuring that resilience is brought back into operations as quickly as possible. Lead root cause analysis investigations to ensure that learning is fed back to prevent reoccurrence.
• Responsibility for annual budget and track actuals against an approved budget plan.
• Ensure that disaster recovery plans are in place and tested appropriately.
• Support major and minor projects delivering new capability into CNI Networks, this will involve requirements capture, design reviews, UAT testing, service transition and move into enduring support.

Our ideal applicant should possess:-

• Ability to manage all of resources required to run best in class network & telemetry operations.
• Ensure that outsourced services and partners effectively deliver to very high standards.
• Experience of managing outsourced services is required, effectively, setting direction, control and standards, ideally in operational network environments.
• Strong knowledge of appropriate technology and systems that make up the network, telemetry and Scada infrastructure would be an advantage.
• Understand interpret both security and external regulations that impact upon the operation and effective running of operational networks.
• Experience of managing critical major incidents out of hours is also required for this role.
• This will be through participation in an out of hours rota