Network Engineer

Salary: £42,000 – £48,000 per year

Network Engineer

We are looking for a Network Engineer to join a highly collaborative and proactive team supporting a diverse organisation.

We are expanding the infrastructure team at PA Media Group with the addition of a Network Engineer. The infrastructure team delivers project and change, as well as BAU support and escalation, across our diverse Group. It covers office and data centre infrastructures and connectivity into cloud services.

The Network Engineer will play a pivotal role in resolving and managing network related Incidents, liaising with service providers and 3rd parties, problem management and other internal teams to ensure successful resolutions and service improvement. You’ll need excellent stakeholder engagement skills to enable you to cross team borders in the delivery of key projects, services and hardware.

What you will do:

Work closely with the other two network engineers to manage and maintain PAMG networks and services – handling day-to-day support, change, problem management and proposing improvements.
 A key member of IT operations and business projects, collaborating with other technology teams, business stakeholders and 3rd parties.
 Championing network strategy by anticipating growth and change and using that knowledge to influence network design and form well-reasoned business cases.
 Providing essential assistance and guidance to the customer service, Ops 1, Desktop Support and DevOps teams in relation to network incidents, change and service requests.
 Maintaining and monitoring network security, processes, and policy to safeguard users and services. And contributing to security developments as part of audits, tenders, and certification.
 Involved in team and project planning to assess priorities.
 Contribute to performance and capacity data, as well as specialist input to Service Design, Transition, Risk Management and Service Improvement.

What you’ll need:

Are you …?

Cisco certified with a proven experience of deploying and maintaining network services and following best practice?
 Knowledge around on-premise and cloud virtualisation technologies?
 Experience working within an ITIL-based environment?

Do you have …?

Excellent written and verbal skills to articulate ideas to technical and non-technical audiences; contribute to debate; and achieve positive outcomes?
 A keen interest in networking and infrastructure technologies and take pride in your work?
 An analytical approach to requirements gathering, troubleshooting and decision-making?

What we offer:

In addition to a competitive salary and benefits that recognise your contribution you’ll also join a team who hold their selves to a high standard and an organisation that promotes team and individual success.

We will offer you autonomy but with supportive leadership and encourage you to share your ideas.

Inclusion:

We’re working hard to ensure we provide an inclusive environment and as well as your skills and experience we’re also focused on who you are and what else you can bring. We recognise the importance of a healthy work life balance and positively encourage agile working.

We are always open to discuss an individual’s flexible working needs so please speak to us during the recruitment process to understand what this could look like for you.

We will do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Why wait?

We will be considering candidates as they apply, so please do not delay in submitting your application as we may decide to close the advert early.

We will aim to update you on the status of your application as soon as possible and to find out more about working with us, search #151Reasons on LinkedIn or check out our Life page

Please Note …

This role is office based but visits to other sites, including international travel, to both PA Media Group and 3rd party suppliers may be required. This role has 5/7, 37.5 hours pw contract with core hours Mon-Fri. Saturdays and Sunday may be required as per business needs.

This role runs 24/7 x 365 services. Core hours are between 08:00 – 18:00 with hours 18:00 – 08:00 covered on-please apply a rota basis.

PA Media Group & PA Media:

PA Media is the leading multimedia content provider and national news agency offering unrivalled content and digital media services.

As home to the national news agency of the UK and Ireland, PA Media proudly takes its place at the heart of the UK media news providing a continuous feed of text, pictures, video and data into newsrooms around the country.

Alongside our core national news agency operation, PA Media also supplies a wide range of content and editorial services ranging from international sports data, comprehensive entertainment guides and photo syndication to editorial and media training. We work with customers across the media industry including national and regional newspapers, magazines, TV and radio broadcasters and digital platforms.

PA Media Group Values:

PA Media Group is committed to inspiring a positive culture and a work environment of Collaboration, Accountability, Integrity and Respect.

We’re building and promoting a culture where difference is valued & everyone can be the best version of themselves and welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status or whether or not they have a disability.

Location: Howden

Salary: Competitive salary

Type: Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hours per week)

You may have experience of the following: Network Services Engineer, Network Engineer, LAN, WAN, Senior Network Engineer, IT Support Engineer, Network Support Engineer, Network Specialist, Cisco, CCNA, Network Administrator, Network Operations Engineer, etc.

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