Senior Technical Specialist - Network Lead

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About The Role

Regarded as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) and responsible for providing strategic expertise to ensure effective management of the technical and business Services for their specialist area. Accountable for the transition and ongoing support of the relevant solutions at CBS to meet business requirements and IT architectural strategy. Responsible for the creation, quality and governance of technical and standards documentation to maintain a stable and consistent environment. Provides a high level of technical knowledge to complete the troubleshooting and resolution to production incidents or problems to meet operational IT needs and ensures business as usual service is maintained to service and operational level agreements. The role also includes the provision of assistance to the Architecture, Development and Support teams to implement and support solutions into the CBS estate. Looks for improvement opportunities which involve coaching, mentoring, planning, supervising, supporting and training of team members.

About You

Role related knowledge:

Essential

Cisco Network Switching & Routing to CCNP

F5 Big-IP Load Balancers - configuration, optimization and I-rules

Checkpoint Firewalls - commissioning, upgrades, and patching (R80 onwards)

Fortigate Firewalls - FortiOS commissioning, upgrades and patching

Bluecoat Appliances - SGOS commissioning, upgrades and patching

Desirable

Cisco Catalyst 9K switches

Cisco Nexus 9K switches and ACI Software Defined Networking

Cisco SAN storage

Cisco Prime / APIC

AWS Security Group and NACL configuration

Other essential information:

Available for out-of-hours support, on a rota basis.

Able to work under pressure.

Thorough, with a good attention to detail.

Deliver to agreed timescales.

Flexible approach to working hours to meet own objectives and assist colleagues in meeting their objectives.

About The Company

Our people are our most valuable asset and we are committed to attracting and retaining the very best people who reflect our values. We recognise the importance of helping you to balance your working life with other priorities, so if you wish to consider this vacancy and your circumstances require different hours to those advertised, or if you are considering a job share arrangement, then let us look at the flexibility you require and see if we can accommodate your needs, whilst ensuring we continue to meet our members' needs.