Network & Security Lead: Sponsorship Available

Barts Health NHS Trust

Job summary

Responsible for the Trust’s Network and Security Governance and support function (planning, designing, configuration and deployment management, maintenance, 2nd line support), technologies, and processes for those used in 1st and 2nd line support to ensure availability and consistency of use for the end user. Providing input to strategic direction of Network & Security technology and oversee the network managed service.

Have extensive CISCO SDA support and configuration experience.

Have in depth knowledge of Azure support and configuration.

Responsible for implementing and maintaining effective technical solutions, in line with ITIL standards and internal SLAs, to meet Trust requirements. This includes the implementation of network and security related technologies and ensuring.

Responsible for technical verification of the Network Managed service a network related area of the Cloud, on-site datacentres.

Act as CISCO Network SME for the team and projects.

In addition, the job-holder will support the Barts Health security and cloud strategies, ensuring a consistent and value driven technology solutions.

 

Main duties of the job

  • Work with and manage the network managed service (NMS) to ensure continued operation including; technical review of designs, changes and service management of the NMS.
  • Proactively monitor and review the network managed service and assure NMS supplier security quality (in line with Security/Network Management best practice, contractual agreements, and industry standards).
  • Input to create standards relating to equipment, software/network configurations and processes to support and improve upon technical solutions and security in conjunction with the NMS.
  • Liaise and manage the Network Managed Service ensuring KPI’s and network policies and procedures are adhered to.
  • Analyse, investigate and troubleshoot to complex IT requests, problems and issues. Lead on problem management, identifying root causes to problems and recommending permanent fixes and workarounds, and make judgements on multi-stranded or complex ICT problems which may have no precedent or where there are conflicting opinions.
  • Act as an escalation point for support activities, matters concerning the network infrastructure and high priority incidents.o Coach and mentor team members, and promote a growing, transformative ICT culture.
  • Support, as required, the diagnosis, identification and resolution of faults relating to the network infrastructure ensuring that the appropriate remediation and escalation plans are developed and implemented.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience working as a senior network management experience within the NHS or other large organization supporting over 5,000 users
  • Experience of monitoring a team/managed service against SLAs.
  • Experience in working with a network managed service
  • Experience of CISCO SDA networks

Desirable

  • Demonstrable budgetary management experience

Skills

Essential

  • Able to monitor and liaise with different IT teams to ensure they have completed cyber security related activities and hold them to account.
  • Ability to think strategically, plan and implement change effectively.
  • Excellent planning (short and longer term) and organisational skills. Plan and organise broad range of complex activities, adjusts plans or strategies as necessary.

Desirable

  • Demonstrable management skills

Knowledge

Essential

  • Significant technical knowledge of CISCO SDA Networks, Configuration and Support
  • Extensive understanding of Network technologies and their dependencies

Desirable

  • Extensive Knowledge of Azure

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to masters level or equivalent
  • Professional IT networking qualifications (e.g. CompTIA Network+, CCNA, CCNP, CCIE) or equivalent experience

Other

Essential

  • Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 11 August 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.