Lead Design Engineer

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My Client is looking for a Lead Design Engineer to be based primarily in the south west with travel to other customer sites.

DESIGN

To plan, manage and deliver the High Level and Detailed design of a complex gateway solution.The candidate should have in depth design experience with the following technologies: o F5 Global and Local load balancers. DNS. o Layer 3 networking o Windows based Infrastructure (AD, SharePoint, SQL, Exchange etc) o Virtual Server environments o Next Generation Firewalls o Email services (Exchange and MTA) o Network & systems Management o Configuration management & Change Control

The candidate should have some design experience with the following technologies: o Hyperconverged Infrastructure o Virtual Desktop Infrastructure including brokers and user management o Data Diodes o Secure data handling and marking o Deep Secure products o XMPP and IRC communications

Subject Matter leadership of a team of designers to manage the delivery of the solution and supporting design artefacts.

Work with the project manager and other stakeholders to create a plan for the delivery of the solution in demanding timescales.

SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT ? To manage suppliers and vendors in respect of design deliverables and the procurement of hardware and software for the programme's test lab and live environments. ? Agreeing scope, deliverables and acceptance criteria for design work-packages ? Ensuring that any design work-packages are delivered on time and to the agreed acceptance criteria ? Agreeing the contents and bill-of-materials for procurement of software and hardware required to support the solution and its environments

CHANGE CONTROL

To manage the impacts and implementation of change controls affecting the design workstream. ENVIRONMENT BUILD ? To lead an implementation team post design for test lab and live environments. Shall include all build and configuration of network, server and system environment components. ? To act as SME during build / delivery phase to help clarify implementation issues. ? Provide reports to the Project Manager to ensure that the programme is informed of progress, risks and issues associated with the delivery of the programmes environments. ? In collaboration with the Service Designer/Manager ensure that the service design documentation and processes will support live service requirements relating to maintenance, operation and change control/release management.