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Your new company Join a forward-thinking public sector organisation committed to delivering innovative ICT solutions across Scotland. The company fosters a collaborative and inclusive culture, driving transformation and excellence in digital infrastructure. Your new role As an IT Principal Engineer, you'll lead a high-performing technical team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining core ICT infrastructure. You'll play a key role in shaping strategic direction, solving complex problems, and ensuring the reliability and security of enterprise-wide systems across cloud, network, and communications platforms. The role offers flexibility to work from various ICT locations across Scotland, subject to availability. What you'll need to succeed Essential Qualifications & Experience: - Degree or relevant industry certification (eg Cisco CCIE) or extensive experience in a similar role. - Proven expertise in ICT infrastructure support, including cloud, security, telephony, WAN/LAN, and remote access. - Strong understanding of ICT automation tools and network security. - Experience with identity management systems (eg Active Directory, Azure AD, Radius). Essential Personal Qualities: - Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills. - Strong problem-solving capabilities under pressure. - Adaptability and attention to detail. - Experience managing enterprise-level infrastructure services. Desirable: - ITIL Foundation Certificate. - Experience supporting a live network across 500+ sites and 24,000+ users. What you'll get in return - A dynamic and collaborative working environment. - Opportunity to influence strategic ICT direction. - Competitive Day Rate - Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and transformation programmes. - Flexible working location across Scotland's ICT hubs. - Participation in a senior on-call rota and potential to deputise for the Infrastructure Manager. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found on our website.

Job Specification: IP Design Specialist - Designer Role Title: IP Design Specialist - Designer Location: Hybrid- Reading Role Overview The IP Design Specialist (Designer) will be responsible for delivering high-quality IP/MPLS network designs supporting a variety of infrastructure and customer solutions, including fixed-line and mobile services, private and hybrid cloud, enterprise IT, and wireless networks. The individual will lead the low-level design and implementation planning of medium to large-scale projects, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned to architectural guidelines. Key Responsibilities Produce detailed, technically sound designs across LAN/WAN, SP/MPLS, Cloud Network infrastructure, and Data Centre environments. Take ownership of LLDs (Low-Level Designs) based on high-level architecture, ensuring compliance with standards and operational requirements. Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and implementation teams to ensure successful delivery and operational handover. Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) across IP, routing, switching, and network virtualization domains. Conduct peer reviews and provide technical oversight to junior engineers/designers. Engage in design validation, lab testing, and proof-of-concept activities. Troubleshoot and support network designs through deployment and into steady-state operations. Participate in design governance and approval forums. Essential Skills & Qualifications Extensive experience in Service Provider and Data Centre routing/switching. Proficiency in BGP, MPLS, ISIS, OSPF, QoS, and large-scale WAN/LAN design. Deep understanding of Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, F5 product lines. Strong experience with on-prem and hybrid cloud networking (OpenStack/OpenShift/VMware NSX). Experience in network automation or Scripting tools (eg Ansible, Python) is a strong plus. Working knowledge of network telemetry and management protocols (SNMP, Syslog, TACACS+). Hands-on experience with complex network troubleshooting tools and techniques. Desirable Certifications CCIE/JNCIE/SRA or equivalent experience. Cloud or Automation certifications (AWS Networking, Terraform, DevNet, etc.) advantageous. Key Attributes Delivery-focused, technically curious, and highly motivated. Excellent communication and documentation skills. Ability to manage multiple projects in parallel with minimal supervision. Willingness to occasionally work outside standard hours for deployments or incident response.

The role of the Principal Technical Consultant (Networking) with in this MSP is to be the most senior technical resource to consult, design, plan and implement highly complex technical networking projects to an extremely high standard. To work closely with the other technical teams, and to act as a mentor in their chosen fields. To inspire others with their enthusiasm and drive particularly pertaining to their core areas of technology. The Principal Technical Consultant will also support the Sales and Solutions teams to provide the technical expertise required to close sales opportunities and propose the current plan to better serve customers. This will typically involve technical presentations, solution demonstrations, solution design/configuration, proposals, bid response documentation, Statement of Work creation, HLD and LLD documentation, which must always be produced to a very high standard. Be a focal point for the team completing peer reviews regularly and ensuring very high standards across the team. Must be eligible for Security Clearance. Work from home / hybrid working options available. Certifications: Essential CCIE (Enterprise Infrastructure or Data Center preferred), One or more CCNP (Enterprise, Data Center, Security, or Collaboration preferred). Fortinet NSE4 or greater. Desirable Meraki Solutions Specialist. VMware VCP-NV (2020); VCAP-NV(Deploy) (2020). AWS and Azure associate-level accreditations. Experience & Skills: - Proven track record with: Cisco Networking and Switching / ACI / SDA / DNAC / Meraki Networking & Switching / HPE Aruba / Nexus Family range (configuration & troubleshooting) / Security with Cisco ISE, ASA, and Firepower. - Demonstrable exposure to NSX design and implementation and Cloud security with thorough understanding in UCS/ Hyperflex. - Ideally worked with Checkpoint, Juniper and Palo Alto. - Technically lead from the front. - Actively attends internal meetings and encourages others to do the same. - Holds, maintains, and continues to develop industry - Recognised expert-level technical relevance through prior experience from being involved in delivering complex projects, appropriate vendor certifications, technical training in core and associated skills (multi-skilled), vendor relationships, industry awareness and attendance / participation in trade/vendor events. - Is able to continually demonstrate exceptional skills in time-management, planning, sales, and all types of communication - Has proven extensive commercial awareness, able to protect the interests the company in all aspects of professional services delivery. - Is able to continually demonstrate comprehensive knowledge and experience of technical infrastructure hardware, software, and solutions, as well as extensive expert-level technical experience in one or more relevant fields. - Is able to continually demonstrate delivery of quality and consistency whilst delivering excellence and at the same time continuing to strive for improvement. - Prior experience working in an IT Services organisation, IT channel, or value-added reseller. Salary £80K to £110K plus 10% bonus paid quarterly plus benefits.

Telecoms Technical Lead - Contract – Iraq MUST HAVE:- Strong Team Leadership, have experience of mentoring and team leading at least 12 Engineer, strong designing, deploying network infrastructure solutions and architecture, strong Cisco background, have experience of working within an environment with over 600 network devices and over 1500 users. CCIE, Data Centre, Security. The Telecoms Technical Lead will be responsible for the delivery and support of network services, working with various implementation groups to deliver network project`s to agreed costs and timescales, maintaining quality and ensuring compliance with relevant governance, regulations, standards and policies. The Telecoms Technical Lead will be required to lead a team of engineers with specialist skills in routing/switching, security and unified communications. The role requires an individual who can work in a fast changing environment, implementing solutions, maintaining quality and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations, standards and policies. Telecoms Technical Lead Key Accountabilities Ensure trouble-free operations of telecoms infrastructure on site including: core network infrastructure, data centre and campus LAN, terrestrial and VSAT WAN, active network components, firewalls and security components, IP telephony, Video Conferencing etc. Identify risks to service delivery, recommend options to address risks and execute approved options. Maximize value from telecommunications contracts. Manage relationship with 3rd party suppliers and Telco`s. Develop infrastructure capability to meet agreed service targets. Manage network, security and UC engineers in the network team to deliver telecom enhancement projects and provide support for existing infrastructure. Assist with maintaining telecom related portion of the DR plans. Manage, review and recommend options for new connectivity requests. Define and execute telecoms related 'changes' Telecoms Technical Leader Criteria & Qualifications – Essential University level education in Engineering / IT or related discipline (preferred). ITIL Foundation CCNP CCIE preferred Experience in designing and deploying network infrastructure solutions. Broad understanding of IT, Security and IP telephony Ability to work within a multicultural environment Desirable Experience in a similar role in an oil/gas company Skills/Behaviour Excellent communication skills (verbal and written). Strong analytical skills. Strong interpersonal skills and able to work with staff at all levels in an organisation. Proactive thinking – the ability to come up with options and solutions. Good attention to detail. Delivery focused. Willing to challenge and be challenged. Motivating, positive, energetic, helpful. Leads by example. Demonstrates strong customer empathy Telecoms Technical Lead - Contract – Iraq Established in 1978, NES Global Talent provides a complete range of contract and permanent talent solutions to the Oil and Gas, Power, Construction and Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Manufacturing and IT sectors worldwide. With more than 40 offices in 28 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. Offering far more than a traditional recruitment service, we fully support our contractors while they are on assignment with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients

Network Security Team Leader - Checkpoint - up to £70k + Bonus + Benefits Network Security Team Leader with strong exposure and experience of managing, administering and supporting a global checkpoint firewall estate required by leading global law firm. In this exciting Network Security Team Leader role you will take on both Operational (30%) and Engineering (70%) responsibilities, providing technical and workload leadership to a small team of Network Security Analysts performing operational support with a dotted line report into the Network Engineering Manager for Engineering related tasks. This is a subject matter expert role and will require you to be hands on as well as design focused. You will use your expert technical and practical knowledge of all core network security technologies and components to ensure there are defined standards in place and you will lead all technical design and implementations ensuring the smooth operation and security of the network infrastructure throughout its lifecycle. Services within your remit will include branch, office and Data Centre security, Firewall, IDS/IPS, Internet, Web Proxy/URL Filtering, IPAM and External DNS. Other day-to-day responsibilities will include: * Supporting the Network Operations Manager with maintaining a skills matrix for all Network Security team members * Incident Management - technical escalation for all high level incidents and overseeing troubleshooting of complex outages, including recommend corrective actions. * Problem Management - technical oversight of Problem management activities * Change Management - act as technical approver for all Network Security related changes. * Providing the Network Operations Manager with relevant reporting covering availability, performance and capacity across all Network Security services. * Defining and enforcing standards for Network Security, ensuring these are implemented and adhered to at all times within the global infrastructure. * Ensuring relevant Knowledge Base articles exist and are maintained to support the swift resolution of future/repeat issues. * Identifying and correcting network non-compliance issues. * Working closely with the Network Engineering Manager and Enterprise Architecture to influence and shape the strategic direction for Network Security services and platforms. * Working closely with Network Engineers to plan and complete assigned tasks within deadlines. To be considered for this fantastic opportunity you will be a Network Security Team Leader (or similar) who must be able to demonstrate extensive experience of network security and internetworking within a global enterprise scale organisation (between 5k - 50k users). You must have strong team leading skills and will be recognised as an expert in your field with previous experience in roles such as Network Security Architecture, Principle Security Engineer or Lead Security Engineer. You will be highly adept at defining standards and creating designs, as well as implementing technical solutions to meet business requirements and you will be used to providing technical support in a pressurised environment, ideally within legal or investment banking. In terms of technical skills and knowledge you must have experience in the following: * CheckPoint Firewalls (NGFW, NGTP, Appliance, Virtual Clustering, Acceleration, FW Monitor) - You MUST have experience of managing, administering and supporting a global checkpoint firewall estate. * Security management platform * Web Proxy / URL filtering (Websense/Forcepoint) * Packet Capture and Netflow * L7 functions / Application Control and User Identity * Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) * Network Address Translation (NAT) * BGP and OSPF routing * MPLS, DMVPN, IPSec VPN, TACACS authentication * VLAN, Spanning Tree, L3 interfaces, HSRP, EIGRP, TCP/IP * IDS, IPS, DLP * DDOS mitigation techniques and technologies You would ideally also possess a solid understanding or experience with Cisco Routing & Switching (IOS, ASR, ISR and Nexus), Cisco Wireless LAN Controller & Access Points, WAN Optimisation, F5 GTM and LTM load balancers, Policy maps for routing, QoS, ACL, Network Monitoring & Alerting (SolarWinds) and various testing tools to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues. Professional Certifications such as CCSE, CCIE, CCNP, CCNA, CISM or CISSP would be advantageous and would give you an edge and you must be an excellent communicator with effective influencing skills essential in order to function effectively in a matrix-managed environment and liaise effectively with global colleagues and team members at all levels. Based in Canary Wharf, the successful candidate can expect a salary of £60k-£70k + Bonus + Benefits including pension and private medical. If you are a Network Security Team Leader with the required technical experience then apply NOW. . The People Network is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. The company is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity The People Network is part of the Pertemps Network Group of companies and is a specialist IT and technical recruitment consultancy with offices in London, Birmingham and Wiltshire. Experienced in placing permanent, interim and contract IT and technical staff at all levels across a range of sectors including Banking, Financial Services, Telecoms, Consultancy and Software Houses across the UK and Mainland Europe. If you would like a confidential and informal chat regarding your career please call and speak with one of our consultants. For more information and latest vacancies please visit us on our website at (url removed)

Solutions Architect NG Bailey is the largest independent engineering, construction and services company in the UK. As a family owned business, with over 90 years in operation, they have a proud heritage, notably in the quality of their workforce and strong design and technical capacity. Their values of passion, integrity and excellence remain at the heart of everything they do. Position: Solutions Architect Location: Leeds Salary: £Competitive About the role: Their specialist, market leading IT Services division provides a service that includes the design, integration and on-going management and analysis of IT solutions. With extensive capabilities and experience in this field, they work closely with customers to bring tangible commercial and environmental benefits. They are now looking for a Solutions Architect with all round networking experience primarily in data networking within switching and routing but with a capability to work within Voice, Wide Area Networking and security arenas to join their team working at Leeds. Within this role you will keep up to date with current market trends and work closely with the customers in order to formulate solutions. Key responsibilities in this position will include: - Keeping up to date with current market trends based on the technical specialisation. Understanding design principles and best practice by supporting other members of the team. - Specifying the correct high level design, bill of materials and accurate scoping of the number of professional services days required to deliver the solution. - Responding to requests for proposals and quotations. - Attending customer meetings with Account Managers to help gather the business and technical requirements. These requirements will be documented and become the input for the high-level design document. - Understanding client requirements and presenting technical updates for customers as required. - Attending bid meetings as required to help deliver proposals and tender responses. - Attending project meetings as directed by the project manager. About you: To be successful in this role you will have significant pre-sales experience having worked previously in estimating, proposal writing, design development and client presentations. Educated to degree level and with a networking background you will ideally have CISCO and HP experience along with recognised vendor accreditations. You may have experience of the following: Solutions Architect, CISCO, CCIE, IT Services, Software Engineer, Systems Architect, Pre-Sales, Estimating, Software Architect, Project Management, Design Development, etc. This vacancy is being advertised by Easy Web Recruitment, the UK`s leading Online Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by Easy Web Recruitment are those of an employment agency. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief, and we confirm that we will gladly accept all applications

Solutions Architect NG Bailey is the largest independent engineering, construction and services company in the UK. As a family owned business, with over 90 years in operation, they have a proud heritage, notably in the quality of their workforce and strong design and technical capacity. Their values of passion, integrity and excellence remain at the heart of everything they do. Position: Solutions Architect Location: Leeds Salary: £Competitive About the role: Their specialist, market leading IT Services division provides a service that includes the design, integration and on-going management and analysis of IT solutions. With extensive capabilities and experience in this field, they work closely with customers to bring tangible commercial and environmental benefits. They are now looking for a Solutions Architect with all round networking experience primarily in data networking within switching and routing but with a capability to work within Voice, Wide Area Networking and security arenas to join their team working at Leeds. Within this role you will keep up to date with current market trends and work closely with the customers in order to formulate solutions. Key responsibilities in this position will include: - Keeping up to date with current market trends based on the technical specialisation. Understanding design principles and best practice by supporting other members of the team. - Specifying the correct high level design, bill of materials and accurate scoping of the number of professional services days required to deliver the solution. - Responding to requests for proposals and quotations. - Attending customer meetings with Account Managers to help gather the business and technical requirements. These requirements will be documented and become the input for the high-level design document. - Understanding client requirements and presenting technical updates for customers as required. - Attending bid meetings as required to help deliver proposals and tender responses. - Attending project meetings as directed by the project manager. About you: To be successful in this role you will have significant pre-sales experience having worked previously in estimating, proposal writing, design development and client presentations. Educated to degree level and with a networking background you will ideally have CISCO and HP experience along with recognised vendor accreditations. You may have experience of the following: Solutions Architect, CISCO, CCIE, IT Services, Software Engineer, Systems Architect, Pre-Sales, Estimating, Software Architect, Project Management, Design Development, etc. This vacancy is being advertised by Easy Web Recruitment, the UK`s leading Online Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by Easy Web Recruitment are those of an employment agency. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief, and we confirm that we will gladly accept all applications

Network Security Team Leader - Checkpoint - up to £70k + Bonus + Benefits Network Security Team Leader with strong exposure and experience of managing, administering and supporting a global checkpoint firewall estate required by leading global law firm. In this exciting Network Security Team Leader role you will take on both Operational (30%) and Engineering (70%) responsibilities, providing technical and workload leadership to a small team of Network Security Analysts performing operational support with a dotted line report into the Network Engineering Manager for Engineering related tasks. This is a subject matter expert role and will require you to be hands on as well as design focused. You will use your expert technical and practical knowledge of all core network security technologies and components to ensure there are defined standards in place and you will lead all technical design and implementations ensuring the smooth operation and security of the network infrastructure throughout its lifecycle. Services within your remit will include branch, office and Data Centre security, Firewall, IDS/IPS, Internet, Web Proxy/URL Filtering, IPAM and External DNS. Other day-to-day responsibilities will include: * Supporting the Network Operations Manager with maintaining a skills matrix for all Network Security team members * Incident Management - technical escalation for all high level incidents and overseeing troubleshooting of complex outages, including recommend corrective actions. * Problem Management - technical oversight of Problem management activities * Change Management - act as technical approver for all Network Security related changes. * Providing the Network Operations Manager with relevant reporting covering availability, performance and capacity across all Network Security services. * Defining and enforcing standards for Network Security, ensuring these are implemented and adhered to at all times within the global infrastructure. * Ensuring relevant Knowledge Base articles exist and are maintained to support the swift resolution of future/repeat issues. * Identifying and correcting network non-compliance issues. * Working closely with the Network Engineering Manager and Enterprise Architecture to influence and shape the strategic direction for Network Security services and platforms. * Working closely with Network Engineers to plan and complete assigned tasks within deadlines. To be considered for this fantastic opportunity you will be a Network Security Team Leader (or similar) who must be able to demonstrate extensive experience of network security and internetworking within a global enterprise scale organisation (between 5k - 50k users). You must have strong team leading skills and will be recognised as an expert in your field with previous experience in roles such as Network Security Architecture, Principle Security Engineer or Lead Security Engineer. You will be highly adept at defining standards and creating designs, as well as implementing technical solutions to meet business requirements and you will be used to providing technical support in a pressurised environment, ideally within legal or investment banking. In terms of technical skills and knowledge you must have experience in the following: * CheckPoint Firewalls (NGFW, NGTP, Appliance, Virtual Clustering, Acceleration, FW Monitor) - You MUST have experience of managing, administering and supporting a global checkpoint firewall estate. * Security management platform * Web Proxy / URL filtering (Websense/Forcepoint) * Packet Capture and Netflow * L7 functions / Application Control and User Identity * Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) * Network Address Translation (NAT) * BGP and OSPF routing * MPLS, DMVPN, IPSec VPN, TACACS authentication * VLAN, Spanning Tree, L3 interfaces, HSRP, EIGRP, TCP/IP * IDS, IPS, DLP * DDOS mitigation techniques and technologies You would ideally also possess a solid understanding or experience with Cisco Routing & Switching (IOS, ASR, ISR and Nexus), Cisco Wireless LAN Controller & Access Points, WAN Optimisation, F5 GTM and LTM load balancers, Policy maps for routing, QoS, ACL, Network Monitoring & Alerting (SolarWinds) and various testing tools to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues. Professional Certifications such as CCSE, CCIE, CCNP, CCNA, CISM or CISSP would be advantageous and would give you an edge and you must be an excellent communicator with effective influencing skills essential in order to function effectively in a matrix-managed environment and liaise effectively with global colleagues and team members at all levels. Based in Canary Wharf, the successful candidate can expect a salary of £60k-£70k + Bonus + Benefits including pension and private medical. If you are a Network Security Team Leader with the required technical experience then apply NOW. . The People Network is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. The company is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity The People Network is part of the Pertemps Network Group of companies and is a specialist IT and technical recruitment consultancy with offices in London, Birmingham and Wiltshire. Experienced in placing permanent, interim and contract IT and technical staff at all levels across a range of sectors including Banking, Financial Services, Telecoms, Consultancy and Software Houses across the UK and Mainland Europe. If you would like a confidential and informal chat regarding your career please call and speak with one of our consultants. For more information and latest vacancies please visit us on our website at (url removed)

Solutions Architect NG Bailey is the largest independent engineering, construction and services company in the UK. As a family owned business, with over 90 years in operation, they have a proud heritage, notably in the quality of their workforce and strong design and technical capacity. Their values of passion, integrity and excellence remain at the heart of everything they do. Position: Solutions Architect Location: Leeds Salary: £Competitive About the role: Their specialist, market leading IT Services division provides a service that includes the design, integration and on-going management and analysis of IT solutions. With extensive capabilities and experience in this field, they work closely with customers to bring tangible commercial and environmental benefits. They are now looking for a Solutions Architect with all round networking experience primarily in data networking within switching and routing but with a capability to work within Voice, Wide Area Networking and security arenas to join their team working at Leeds. Within this role you will keep up to date with current market trends and work closely with the customers in order to formulate solutions. Key responsibilities in this position will include: - Keeping up to date with current market trends based on the technical specialisation. Understanding design principles and best practice by supporting other members of the team. - Specifying the correct high level design, bill of materials and accurate scoping of the number of professional services days required to deliver the solution. - Responding to requests for proposals and quotations. - Attending customer meetings with Account Managers to help gather the business and technical requirements. These requirements will be documented and become the input for the high-level design document. - Understanding client requirements and presenting technical updates for customers as required. - Attending bid meetings as required to help deliver proposals and tender responses. - Attending project meetings as directed by the project manager. About you: To be successful in this role you will have significant pre-sales experience having worked previously in estimating, proposal writing, design development and client presentations. Educated to degree level and with a networking background you will ideally have CISCO and HP experience along with recognised vendor accreditations. You may have experience of the following: Solutions Architect, CISCO, CCIE, IT Services, Software Engineer, Systems Architect, Pre-Sales, Estimating, Software Architect, Project Management, Design Development, etc. This vacancy is being advertised by Easy Web Recruitment, the UK`s leading Online Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by Easy Web Recruitment are those of an employment agency. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief, and we confirm that we will gladly accept all applications

Network Security Team Leader - Checkpoint - up to £70k + Bonus + Benefits Network Security Team Leader with strong exposure and experience of managing, administering and supporting a global checkpoint firewall estate required by leading global law firm. In this exciting Network Security Team Leader role you will take on both Operational (30%) and Engineering (70%) responsibilities, providing technical and workload leadership to a small team of Network Security Analysts performing operational support with a dotted line report into the Network Engineering Manager for Engineering related tasks. This is a subject matter expert role and will require you to be hands on as well as design focused. You will use your expert technical and practical knowledge of all core network security technologies and components to ensure there are defined standards in place and you will lead all technical design and implementations ensuring the smooth operation and security of the network infrastructure throughout its lifecycle. Services within your remit will include branch, office and Data Centre security, Firewall, IDS/IPS, Internet, Web Proxy/URL Filtering, IPAM and External DNS. Other day-to-day responsibilities will include: * Supporting the Network Operations Manager with maintaining a skills matrix for all Network Security team members * Incident Management - technical escalation for all high level incidents and overseeing troubleshooting of complex outages, including recommend corrective actions. * Problem Management - technical oversight of Problem management activities * Change Management - act as technical approver for all Network Security related changes. * Providing the Network Operations Manager with relevant reporting covering availability, performance and capacity across all Network Security services. * Defining and enforcing standards for Network Security, ensuring these are implemented and adhered to at all times within the global infrastructure. * Ensuring relevant Knowledge Base articles exist and are maintained to support the swift resolution of future/repeat issues. * Identifying and correcting network non-compliance issues. * Working closely with the Network Engineering Manager and Enterprise Architecture to influence and shape the strategic direction for Network Security services and platforms. * Working closely with Network Engineers to plan and complete assigned tasks within deadlines. To be considered for this fantastic opportunity you will be a Network Security Team Leader (or similar) who must be able to demonstrate extensive experience of network security and internetworking within a global enterprise scale organisation (between 5k - 50k users). You must have strong team leading skills and will be recognised as an expert in your field with previous experience in roles such as Network Security Architecture, Principle Security Engineer or Lead Security Engineer. You will be highly adept at defining standards and creating designs, as well as implementing technical solutions to meet business requirements and you will be used to providing technical support in a pressurised environment, ideally within legal or investment banking. In terms of technical skills and knowledge you must have experience in the following: * CheckPoint Firewalls (NGFW, NGTP, Appliance, Virtual Clustering, Acceleration, FW Monitor) - You MUST have experience of managing, administering and supporting a global checkpoint firewall estate. * Security management platform * Web Proxy / URL filtering (Websense/Forcepoint) * Packet Capture and Netflow * L7 functions / Application Control and User Identity * Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) * Network Address Translation (NAT) * BGP and OSPF routing * MPLS, DMVPN, IPSec VPN, TACACS authentication * VLAN, Spanning Tree, L3 interfaces, HSRP, EIGRP, TCP/IP * IDS, IPS, DLP * DDOS mitigation techniques and technologies You would ideally also possess a solid understanding or experience with Cisco Routing & Switching (IOS, ASR, ISR and Nexus), Cisco Wireless LAN Controller & Access Points, WAN Optimisation, F5 GTM and LTM load balancers, Policy maps for routing, QoS, ACL, Network Monitoring & Alerting (SolarWinds) and various testing tools to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues. Professional Certifications such as CCSE, CCIE, CCNP, CCNA, CISM or CISSP would be advantageous and would give you an edge and you must be an excellent communicator with effective influencing skills essential in order to function effectively in a matrix-managed environment and liaise effectively with global colleagues and team members at all levels. Based in Canary Wharf, the successful candidate can expect a salary of £60k-£70k + Bonus + Benefits including pension and private medical. If you are a Network Security Team Leader with the required technical experience then apply NOW. . The People Network is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. The company is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity The People Network is part of the Pertemps Network Group of companies and is a specialist IT and technical recruitment consultancy with offices in London, Birmingham and Wiltshire. Experienced in placing permanent, interim and contract IT and technical staff at all levels across a range of sectors including Banking, Financial Services, Telecoms, Consultancy and Software Houses across the UK and Mainland Europe. If you would like a confidential and informal chat regarding your career please call and speak with one of our consultants. For more information and latest vacancies please visit us on our website at (url removed)

Cisco Network Engineer - LAN, WAN, , Routing, Switching Routing, Switching, Network Change Requests, Ciaco CCNA, CCNP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP I am seeking a Cisco Network Engineer to work on change requests for customer networks Working Hours - 9 -5.30 no shifts or oncall periods Opportunity to work for one of the UKs leading Cisco Gold Partners/ Telecommunications business Opprtunity to complete and pursue Cisco Certifications to CCIE Level Role Responsibilities - Respond to Managed Service customers for all queries regarding design, enhancement and proof of concept - Perform technical validation of any submitted change request to ensure the integrity of the customer`s network is maintained - Document all change activity, to include scope of works, risk assessment, test plans and fall-back plans where appropriat - Provide on-demand technical escalation to Incident Management personnel ensuring customer problems are resolved or that service is restored in accordance with service level agreements - To work and often lead a virtual team with all the attributes to manage customer expectations in a crisis situation where the impact to a customer`s business exceeds the value of service credits permissible - To attend internal and external (customers) Change Advisory Boards (CAB), influencing customer decisions and best practise. - Working knowledge and adherence to ISO27001 guidelines Attend customer premises when necessary to facilitate and progress complex, high risk change activity - Customer satisfaction levels measured by regular service review meetings. - Customer feedback on: - quality of service and interaction - added value/benefits from advice - added value/benefits from change management process - Specialised knowledge of routing and switching - Routinely manage complex changes and networking problems in at least one of the following core specialist areas LAN, WAN and VPN/Security - Specialised knowledge of Cisco or Avaya IPT and converged network environments - Ability to work unsupervised, under pressure and on own initiative - Routing protocols e.g. BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP etc