Job Title: Senior Security and Network Technician
Post Reference Number: 006259
Working Hours: 37
Grade: 8
Salary Range: £39571 to £42614 pro rata for hours worked
Contract: Permanent
Location: Stevenage
About the Council
Stevenage Borough Council has huge ambitions for the town and its residents. An extensive town centre regeneration programme is underway, along with significant investment in council homes and neighbourhoods across Stevenage. East Herts District Council is one of the busiest planning teams in the country with equally ambitious plans for its residents. The councils’ provide important and critical services to it’s residents and rely on a fast, stable and secure networking infrastructure to support its operations in an increasingly digital world.
The ICT shared service is based in Stevenage and provides essential IT services and telephony to both councils via its two data centres. This includes the corporate, public and wireless networks which underpin council communications. It is an exciting and interesting time as the service introduces Cisco ACI to improve and secure its network. Cyber threats are constantly evolving and the IT and staff alike needs to be aware of these threats and protect ourselves to maintain services, with senior security and network technicians like yourself at its core.
About the Role
We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated networking expert to be the main technical authority on our corporate networks, combined with someone who is focused and determined to keep our networks safe and secure in the face of cyber threats.
You will be crucial in building, configuring, maintaining and monitoring our corporate networks that are the foundation of the councils’ digital future. Direct, hands-on development using firewalls, load balancers, routers and switches backed by Cisco ACI, you will be our expert on networking and a respected senior technician in this area, providing customer support and professional advice too. In addition, you will contribute to the ongoing improvements of our IT offering and technical roadmaps.
A key part of the role involves keeping up to date on the latest cyber security threats and generate awareness of these amongst colleagues and staff, taking a leading role in getting vulnerabilities plugged in order to maintain council services.
About you
To be successful in this role you will have:
• A proven track record of corporate network administration and management.
• In-depth knowledge of network technologies i.e. LAN, WAN, OSI, TCP/IP, VLAN, routing, switching, subnetting.
• Experience of working with firewalls, load balancers, wireless access points.
• Experience working with networking hardware, ideally Cisco.
• Cisco Certified Network Associate
• ITIL Foundation
• Knowledge of network security and threat protection
• Skills using Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting tools.
Our benefits
We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:
• Pension Scheme: We offer a career average pension scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
• Flexible working: available upon request, subject to operational requirements.
• Part time and Job share: all our full time vacancies are open to job share unless otherwise stated.
• A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave, maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave.
• 24 days holiday rising to 30 days (depending on Local Government service)
• An extensive range of learning and development opportunities
• Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
• Season ticket loans and discounts for public transport
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Stevenage Credit Union: secure savings, free life insurance and access to cheap loans.
• Employee Discounts: via monthly paid membership of the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC)
• Discounted Health and Fitness membership at SLL
• Trade Unions: For a small fee, all employees have the opportunity to join a Trade Union.
Application Details
For an informal discussion about this role please contact stephen.munyard@stevenage.gov.uk
To apply online, please visit https://jobs.stevenage.gov.uk/StevenageBorough/Home
Closing date for receipt of applications: 30 October 2022
Please note that if we receive a large volume of applications for this role, we reserve the right to close this vacancy ahead of the published closing date.
Stevenage Borough Council (SBC) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff, volunteers and recruitment candidates to share this commitment. SBC shall take all reasonable steps to employ staff who are safe to work with children, young people and vulnerable adults. For posts identified with regular contact with these groups applicants will be required to undertake a Value Based Interview. The council supports the legislative requirements for employing and maintaining safer staff and the guidance specified by Hertfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board
Stevenage Borough Council is committed to Equal Opportunities for all.
