Job Title: Senior Network Engineer

Salary: £44,100 - £59,000

Location: Cambridge, UK

Contract: Permanent

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

As part of a highly skilled Network team based in Cambridge there are opportunities to gain valuable experience in a variety of network technologies, using your design and implementation skills for key projects, including providing expert troubleshooting and support for thousands of end-users based in the UK and Internationally.

About the role

Provide second/third line support for technologies that the team owns, including but not limited to areas such as routing, switching, load balancing, wireless networking, firewall security, (including VPNs), and authorisation access control.
Manage and prepare for implementation projects in an operational and support environments including evaluation, feasibility, technical investigations, pilots and proof of concepts.
Provide expert advice to help Line Management on technical capabilities of IT products within operational support environment, to assess the feasibility of proposed projects to determine appropriateness of IT solutions and to maintain alignment with the wider technical framework.
Help ensure that best practice is applied and maintained in all aspects of Service and support.

In the role of Senior Network Engineer, there will be an expectation to adhere to the key values of collaboration, empowerment, innovation, and responsibility by close collaboration with colleagues across technology in delivery of support and projects.

You'll actively share knowledge and advice with others, encourage the development of colleagues. Explore new ideas and ways of working and readily share those with others. Whilst always looking to achieve the best for the organisation and colleagues.

About you

Knowledge

The role is ideally suited to a person who can demonstrate a solid understanding of Networking concepts and application to CCNP level or equivalent.

In addition, the successful candidate will be required to possess a high level of expertise in the following areas:

Firewall Technologies (Check Point, Cisco) – essential
Wireless Technologies (Cisco, Aruba) – essential
Public Cloud (AWS, Azure) – beneficial
Network Access Control (ISE) – beneficial
Server Load Balancing (F5 LTM) – beneficial
VMware vSphere virtualisation - beneficial

Skills

The successful candidate will need to understand and articulate what being part of a team means. Being a team player is as high on our list of essential skills as the following:

Minimum of 5 years' or equivalent experience supporting and delivering technologies relating to the role
Experience leading and delivering projects
Exceptional communicator and team player
Familiar with working in an on premise and cloud hosting environment, as part of a team working both onshore and offshore

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

Group personal pension scheme
Discretionary annual bonus
Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
Green travel schemes
28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

We also offer flexible and hybrid working options from day one, with the knowledge this is an office based role and will be required to attend the office Cambridge a number of times in month. We will consider any work arrangements if you wish to work flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 2nd May and interviews are scheduled to take place week shortly after the job closes.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

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