Job Description

About the role

University of Staffordshire has embarked on an ambitious and unique transformation in the Higher Education sector where we strive to become the UK's leading Digital University. To help deliver this, we're looking for a talented and experienced Network Engineer, a highly technical role supporting the design and delivery of wired and wireless network services across the University, to join our Network & Infrastructure Team.

Main Responsibilities

The main responsibilities for our Network Engineer will be to:

Support architectural standards ensuring that new technologies, services, and network infrastructure refreshes deliver high levels of performance and service availability. Lead on some internal projects and provide technical network support within Digital Services, and wider university transformation projects. Provide technical advice and support across teams and wider university stakeholders, as well as second and third-line support for network related calls received via the Digital Services ticketing system. Manage switch stacks at all layers of the traditional network topology using industry standards and best practices, alongside configuring, implementing, testing and migrating to a Software Defined Networking architecture. Manage the Catalyst Centre platform and monitor all devices and services to ensure that they are highly available, performant and secure. Administer and develop secure policy-based client access and firewall protection. Research and report on new technologies. Maintain disaster recovery procedures for new and existing systems, including test plans and regular recovery test schedules. Troubleshoot and resolve wired and wireless performance issues, connectivity to the university's secure network, Cloud, and Internet services.
Supporting the Digital Transformation Strategy and the university's 2030 Strategic Plan, some of the ventures that the Network Engineer will support from a technical perspective include a new student accommodation village, enhancements to network security in line with our cyber security roadmap and a robust hardware replacement programme. We are also working towards a software defined networking infrastructure, intelligent buildings, and automation and programmability to deliver innovative solutions that reduce day to day administration tasks. Knowledge and expertise in all these areas being relevant to this experienced Network Engineer role.

This is a great opportunity for a skilled Network Engineer with proven network engineering experience, knowledge and skills in Cisco technologies, particularly SDA, who is focussed on making a positive difference.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 33,482.00-38,249.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2DE

Reference ID: INF186-25