Job Description:
Mandatory Skills - Network Implementation
Additional Skills - Network Architecting
Certifications: CCNP bare min/CCIA Enterprise networks preferred
The individual will be responsible, along with the rest of the CNI Networks Team, for the management of all third-party services supporting the networks, operational telephony, and 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 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 do not affect the safe operational control of the networks.
* Collaborate 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.
* Participate in out-of-hours rota for the management of incidents on CNI networks, ensuring that resilience is restored to operations as quickly as possible. Lead root cause analysis investigations to ensure that learning is fed back to prevent reoccurrence.
* Responsible for the annual budget and tracking 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, involving requirements capture, design reviews, UAT testing, service transition, and move into enduring support.
Our ideal applicant should possess:
* Ability to manage all resources required to run best-in-class network and telemetry operations.
* Ensure that outsourced services and partners effectively deliver to very high standards.
* Experience in managing outsourced services, 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.
* Ability to understand and interpret both security and external regulations that impact the operation and effective running of operational networks.
* Experience managing critical major incidents out of hours is also required for this role.
* This will be through participation in an out-of-hours rota.
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