Lead Network Infrastructure Engineer

https://www.inspirepeople.net/job-search/1725-lead-network-infrastructure-engineer/networking/uk-london/job2024-10-07 17:57:242025-10-06Inspire People
Job TypePermanent
LocationCroydon, London
AreaUK - London, UKUK - South West, UKUK - LondonUKCroydon, London
SkillsIT Infrastructure - Networking
Salary28% pension + Civil Service benefits
CurrencyGBP
Start DateASAP
ConsultantKeesha Paulsen
Telephone020 7871 8550
Job Ref2939_1728320244
Description

HM Land Registry ("HMLR") and Inspire People are partnering to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Lead Network Engineer to help shape the technical direction of HMLR's established network function and infrastructure across all 14 UK offices. You will actively engage in series of network re-designs and upgrades including new office topology, firewalls and routing designs. Salary of £54,388 to £68,900 dependent upon interview assessment plus excellent Civil Service benefits and 28% pension contribution. Flexible, hybrid working from Plymouth or Croydon.

The IT Operations Practice contains an established network function who are responsible for the design, delivery, and maintenance of HM Land Registry network infrastructure. This encompasses data centres, local offices across England and Wales in addition to cloud infrastructure hosted on AWS and Azure. These services underpin all of HMLRs IT services.

The team are actively engaged in a series of exciting network re-designs, consolidations and upgrades including new local office topology and design, new switching, firewalls and routing designs.

This role is to provide technical leadership for the Networks team, take forward technical consolidation/improvement activities and engage with other Lead Infrastructure Engineers, Technical Leads, Delivery Leads, New Service Managers and Architects to deliver solutions to agreed designs plus contributing to strategic planning.

If you would like to find out more about the role, the Network Engineering team and what it's like to work at HMLR, we are holding a Hiring Manager Q&A session for this role where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Monday 21st of October at 12:30pm. Use the 'Apply' button which will provide the link to book onto this session.

Responsibilities include:

  • Be the subject matter expert on networks within HM Land Registry, taking accountability for design and management of network infrastructure.
  • Provide technical leadership to the practice, working as a Lead Infrastructure Engineering team to provide guidance and technical decision making within BAU and change portfolio deliverables
  • Support HM Land registry Network Infrastructure, encompassing data centres, local offices across England and Wales in addition to cloud infrastructure hosted on AWS and Azure.
  • Use networking skills to continually design and develop the network topology to meet business needs
  • Maintain effective relationships with other practices in order to meet operational requirements and service levels agreements.
  • Contribute to the continual improvement of the practise and the IT Operations community, supporting community members to build and maintain cohesion
  • Occasional hands-on with reconfiguration, troubleshooting, rolling out new equipment and quality assurance.

Essential skills:

  • CCNP qualification or equivalent experience
  • Routing configurations using standard enterprise routing protocols including OSP and BGP.
  • Firewall configuration including policy, routing and design.
  • Switching protocols (HSRP/ vlan / port-channels)
  • Physical network design.
  • Design and operation of cloud network solutions (Any cloud)
  • Experience of planning and leading on the delivery of large-scale network infrastructure change
  • Experience of technical leadership in an enterprise technical environment.
  • Effective communication skills, including the ability to interact and build working relationships with stakeholders.

Location

Expectation is to be working from the Plymouth or Croydon office 60% of your time across the month (typically 3 days/week).

Benefits

  • Salary between £54,388 - £68,900 depending on skills assessed at interview and location
  • Alongside your salary, HM Land Registry contributes £9,881 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme
  • Annual leave of 28.5 days' paid holiday during each holiday year plus 8 days public holidays
  • Personalised training and development plans including expensed accreditations with training days set aside
  • Flexi-time scheme (You decide what working hours work best for you)
  • Social and sports club
  • Access to our employee assistance programme for counselling and support on a wide range of issues
  • Interest-free loan for season tickets
  • Cycle to work scheme (salary sacrifice).
  • HMLR have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development and flexible ways of working.

Further information

This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 5 out of the past 5 years.

This post may include participation in an on-call rota, subject to additional pay.

If you are a Network's Engineer with experience of providing technical leadership to Network teams, keen to make significant impact to over 6000 users and work on Critical National Infrastructure then apply today or contact Zymante Gintalaite (Zee) at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information.

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