Core Network Engineer

Role: Core Network Engineer

Contract Length: Until 3^rd April 2021

Location: Corsham, Wiltshire

IR35: In Scope

Pay Rate to Candidate: Max. pay £356.40 per day PAYE Umbrella

Security Clearance: Security Check (SC) clearance essential*

CV Deadline: Tuesday 24th September, noon

Interview Process: Face-to-face

Note:

*If applying please able to confirm who sponsored/holds your clearance and when it will expire.

The client will only consider full British nationals for this job; dual nationals or people with visas will be rejected.

Minimum Requirement:

• Knowledge of ITIL service management processes and practices
• Knowledge of Incident Management, Problem Management and Change Management Processes
• Recognized ITIL Foundation
• Microsoft Windows Operating Systems (both server and client) 
• Experience of working on a L4 Support Team in an IT/MOD environment
• AD, DNS, DHCP, PKI, AV, SQL, RDS
• Exchange/Skype/SharePoint support
• Horizon Connection/Security Server/NSX
• VMware/virtualised infrastructure experience 
• Experience with Security Monitoring Software 
• CCENT or equivalent level networking experience  
• Microsoft Powershell CLI 
• Knowledge of Microsoft server applications (such as SCCM)

Due to the SQEP requirements and technical solution being developed, the use of MOD employees is not judged viable.

Description:

To support the delivery of the engineering outputs to enhance capability and reputation; and to repair, maintain and/or improve the quality of its products, services and advice to customers.

To support the development of work plans, including identification of improvements to systems, capabilities and/or process.

To use existing and emerging engineering practice to support the delivery of the work plans, which repair, maintain and/or improve systems and products and provide advice and services for the benefit of customers.

To contribute to the generation and presentation of documentation and reports internally and externally in order to meet the needs of the customer, including; maintaining capability, integrity, standards; and/or communicating advice and knowledge and/or promoting reputation.

To support other team members to improve the effectiveness of the team.

To carry out continuing professional development in line with current and future needs.

POST SPECIFICS:

The NSoIT(D) Through Life Support Team as an in-house supplier for Service Management is responsible for the design and development of the support model and tools and process. Host all services required by MoD formations in the deployed environment. As part of the key activity in taking the Hub in to live service the creation of a new L4 Support Organisation is now required, in line with the Programme Direction and MGBC.

Roles in this level are responsible for delivering specialist services which involve the choice and application of diverse processes, systems and techniques delivering a broad range of services. Individuals work with a minimum of supervision, demonstrating a systematic, disciplined and analytical approach, working within established processes, procedures and guidance, with minimum day-to-day supervision, to provide a range of support services to an agreed standard or specification.

• Application of operating system and firmware patches, licences and upgrades on a regular basis 
• Perform regular security monitoring to enforce the development environment security operating instructions and report any breaches accordingly 
• Conduct scheduled backup operations and verification to ensure business continuity 
• Create, administer and archive production environment user accounts and workstations 
• Maintenance of environment end user devices and servers 
• Troubleshooting and recovery from hardware or software-based outages 
• Control the import and export of data to\from the production environment system 
• Production of low-level technical documentation (system books) 
• Support the System Centre 2016 environment (Operations Manager and SCCM)  
• Managing, testing and implementing disaster recovery and resilience procedures 
• Conducting regular software and hardware audits as appropriate 
• Management of the Orchestration engine