Lead Network Infrastructure Engineer
Hybrid
Plymouth, United Kingdom
Freelance
01-04-2025
Job Specifications
On behalf of HM Land Registry, we are looking for a Lead Network Infrastructure Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 12 Month Hybrid contract based in London and Plymouth 2 times per week.
SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position, (and speed at which we require a postholder in situ), preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.
The IT Operations Practice contains an established network function who are responsible for the design, delivery, and maintenance of HM Land Registry network infrastructure. This encompasses data centres, local offices across England and Wales in addition to cloud infrastructure hosted on AWS and Azure. These services underpin all of HMLRs IT services.
The team are actively engaged in a series of exciting network re-designs and upgrades including new local office topology and design. New switching, firewalls and routing designs.
This role is to provide technical leadership for the Networks team, providing deep technical guidance to these teams. They will engage with other Lead Infrastructure Engineers, Technical Leads, Delivery Leads, New Service Managers and Architects to deliver solutions to agreed designs, contributing to business-as-usual activities, work packages and strategic planning.
The role holder will take forward technical consolidation and/or improvement activities providing guidance and leadership to technicians throughout the IT Operations Practice and wider, whilst also working across Transformation and Technology to support and deliver solutions in line with the Technology and Business Strategies.
Responsibilities:
• Be the subject matter expert on networks within HM Land Registry, taking accountability for design and management of network infrastructure.
• Support HM Land registry Network Infrastructure, encompassing data centres, local offices across England and Wales in addition to cloud infrastructure hosted onAWS and Azure.
• Provide technical leadership to the practice, working as a Lead Infrastructure Engineering team to provide guidance and technical decision making within BAU and change portfolio deliverables.
• In conjunction with the Lead Infrastructure Engineers and other technical leads within IT Operations and relevant practises, develop and maintain IT Infrastructure to ensure the availability, integrity and performance of services.
• Make decisions to ensure that technical implementations are compatible with the existing infrastructure and the strategic aims of Land Registry.
• Work with key IT partners and suppliers to develop, test and implement new solutions, ensuring that the most effective technology is used to meet business requirements, with particular emphasis on HM Land Registry’s expanding digital services.
• Task manage technical staff resource as required, setting them clear objectives and tracking them to completion whilst providing appropriate feedback to line managers.
• Maintain effective relationships with other practices in order to meet operational requirements and service levels agreements.
• Implement appropriate security controls to mitigate security threats within solutions andservices.
• Implement and champion modern industry standards in teams’ working processes.
• Create and follow test plans to provide assurance when implementing infrastructure changes
• Contribute to the continual improvement of the practise and the IT Operations community, supporting community members to build and maintain cohesion.
Essential Technical Criteria:
• Achieved a CCNP qualification or have equivalent industry experience.
• Layer 2 and Layer 3 Network protocols including TCP/IP, GBP, OSFP, VLAN, STP.
• Designing network changes
• Firewall configuration, including policy changes
Essential Experience Criteria:
• Experience of planning and leading significant infrastructure change
• Experience of technical leadership including operation of service
• Ability to visualise, articulate and solve complex problems and make disciplined decisions based on available information.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to build working relationships and explaining technical issues to nontechnical stakeholders.
There may be some occasional out of hours and on call work required
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Disability Confident
As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Land Registry guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
Armed Forces Covenant
HM Land Registry guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".
About the Company
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