Job summary
- Main area
- Digital
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 2 years (Fixed Term Contract ending on 30-November-2024)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-JH-EMF16970-B8a
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £55,877 - £62,626 per annum - includes high cost area supplements (HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Network Engineering & Security Manager
Band 8a
Job overview
The Royal Surrey County NHS Foundation Trust and are seeking to recruit an experienced Network Engineering and Security Manager on a Two-Year Fixed Term Contract.
The Network Engineering & Security Manager is a key member of the Infrastructure & Unified Communications team responsible for the technical operation, development, and security of the organization's network infrastructure. This role ensures the Network team functions are delivered in accordance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs), maintaining high levels of system availability and customer satisfaction.
The role also requires flexible working by the organisation, including early start times and late finishes as required, to maintain appropriate coverage from 8am until 5pm.
Main duties of the job
The Network Engineering & Security Manager will lead a team of technical staff, manage budgets, oversee vendor relationships, and ensure compliance with national policies and regulations.
The key purpose of this role is to:
A Network Engineering & Security Manager designs, implements, and maintains network and telecommunications infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance, resilience, and security while troubleshooting issues. They integrate and manage various communication platforms, provide user support and training, and handle vendor relationships. Strategically, they develop technology plans, manage budgets, enforce policies, and plan for disaster recovery. Their primary goal is to ensure the network and communication systems operate effectively, securely, and efficiently to support the organization's needs.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
A Network Engineering & Security Manager designs, implements, and maintains network and telecommunications infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance, resilience, and security while troubleshooting issues. They integrate and manage various communication platforms, provide user support and training, and handle vendor relationships. Strategically, they develop technology plans, manage budgets, enforce policies, and plan for disaster recovery. Their primary goal is to ensure the network and communication systems operate effectively, securely, and efficiently to support the organization's needs.
The Network Engineering & Security Manager is a key member of the Infrastructure & Unified Communications team responsible for the technical operation, development, and security of the organization's network infrastructure. This role ensures the Network team functions are delivered in accordance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs), maintaining high levels of system availability and customer satisfaction. The Network Engineering & Security Manager will lead a team of technical staff, manage budgets, oversee vendor relationships, and ensure compliance with national policies and regulations.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters level education, equivalent professional qualifications
- Professional technical certification (e.g. Cisco, Extreme Networks, Checkpoint, etc), or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Further specialist professional management or leadership certification A/I/C
- ITIL Foundation or Practitioner Certification, or equivalent experience
- Cybersecurity Certification (CISSP, SSCP, OSCP) or equivalent experience.
- Prince 2, PMP, Project Management Certification, or equivalent experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- In-depth experience in a role working at a senior level with Network and Telecoms systems.
- Demonstrable experience and knowledge of developing requirements into system configuration and service output
- Expert in ‘off the shelf’ Enterprise Applications technologies at an enterprise level
- Proven expertise and experience in the delivery of business requirements capture and analysis developing structured technical specifications
- Deep market knowledge of IT and Healthcare technologies and use within an acute setting
- Substantial experience in software design, configuration and development that involves complex computer systems
- Expert in technology applications and the use of analytics for availability, capacity and improvement
- Demonstrable experience of operating in a medium to large size ‘off the shelf’ application and technology environment
- Strong project and process management skills, with the ability to handle multiple stakeholders, as well as a wide range of tasks
Desirable criteria
- Advanced knowledge of development and testing including system planning and risk analysis
- ITIL Experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gareth Cockerill
- Job title
- Appointing Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
If you would like to talk to somebody about this vacancy then please contact:
Antony Joseph, Head of Digital Infrastructure and Cyber SecurityEmail: [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Royal Surrey Foundation Trust
- Telephone
- 01483 571122 Ext 2478
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