Senior Network Engineer

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Senior Network Engineer – Hybrid – with some travel to Warwick when required.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Network Engineer to help creating ideas for new products or services and drawing up plans for a new design. Taking ideas from the initial design stage through to the production and or installations process. Drawing up detailed technical plans for ideas and concepts. Using mathematical and scientific skills to create workable, real-world solutions to problems. Selecting the appropriate materials for a new product or a new construction. Calculating an accurate cost analysis forecast for a project. Completing the required technical and regulatory documents May be required to ensure quality-control tests on a new product/system and overseeing its construction/manufacture, development and deployment.

Key Deliverables

Lead network designs for DDaT, and take ownership delivering scope of work documentation, schema outline designs, topology diagrams, detailed Infrastructure designs, bill of materials, physical & logical design schematics and node configurations

Be responsible for the accuracy and correctness of designs undertaken by assigned network engineers and assist and train team members where needed

Develop technical specifications, network architecture documentation and other relevant documentation

Undertake network and application configuration

Managing the devices, system and integration testing

Providing support on applications, reports and interfaces

Liaise with vendors where necessary and apply or oversee relevant updates and patches.

Monitor performance and efficiency of the network and instigate modifications and improvements where necessary

Provide advice to end users on how to operate the network

Resolve technical queries

Selecting the appropriate materials for a new product or a new construction

Provide network training as required

Test new product releases and upgrades

Create and maintain the system documentation

Responsibilities

To work within a customer facing project team to deliver and support network application solutions for business transition, transformation and business as usual activities

To create the technical requirements documentation based on business process requirements

To support the product/application selection and architecture development processes

To manage 3

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party suppliers including technical liaison, technical compliance, inter-dependencies between suppliers, testing, scoping of support contracts and transfer into operations

End to end responsibility for the specification, design, configuration and deployment of the solutions, including all documentation, statements of work, process maps, handbooks, user guides, training and successful transfer into operations.

To ensure that the solutions include the requirements of other in scope deliverable areas and that the solutions are fully integrated with the other deliverable areas

To develop a strong understanding of the application portfolio used within the operational environment

To provide out of hours support as required for application faults

Qualifications / Skill Requirements

HND/BEng Degree level of education, or equivalent experience

Holds the relevant specified/designated Licences/certifications for the discipline/business sector.

Computer literate, competent with MS Office suite, Word, Excel, etc

Working knowledge of the quality standards and processes and regulatory requirements applicable to the designated discipline/business area.

Competent all-round verbal and written communication skills

Strong collaborative working skills across teams and stakeholders

Capable of managing tasks effectively in an autonomous environment

Customer focussed and able to deal with internal and external stakeholders

A passion for solving problems and providing workable solutions

Strong analytical and reasoning skills with an ability to visualise processes and outcomes

Able to successfully undergo Security Clearance vetting as required

Desirable

Experienced in TENE designs and familiar with DDaT design processes and tools

Experience in delivering designs in a Critical National Infrastructure environment

Familiar with the Construction Design and Management (CDM) regulations.

Aware of BIM processes for successful Integrated Project Delivery.

Familiar with AutoCAD/MicroStation and other CAD specified software

What we offer

A career at Telent can span sectors, roles, technologies, and customers giving you the opportunity to develop, learn new skills and make an impact. We are growing and we rely on our committed Team to deliver.

We nurture the talent that makes this happen, by our on-going commitment to creating an inclusive culture that respects and values difference, that celebrates diverse ideas. We want everyone be themselves and to thrive at work.

The additional benefits with this role:

26 days annual leave, plus public holidays, plus the option to buy up to 10 days or sell six days each year.

Company pension scheme

A range of family friendly policies

Occupational health support and wellbeing Portal

Discounts on Cinema, Restaurants and Shopping with Telent Reward scheme.

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