Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Wokingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Lead Administrator role involves managing operational resources for IP/MPLS/Ethernet/SDH networks within a Utilities environment, ensuring high standards in outsourced services and compliance with security regulations. The position requires participation in incident management and root cause analysis, along with budget responsibilities. Candidates must be SC cleared or eligible and possess relevant qualifications and experience in network operations. The role is based in Wokingham, requiring candidates to be within an hour's travel distance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a focal point for business service liaison, including projects and service transition.
- Manage resources, including third-party service providers, for operational management of CNI SCADA and networks.
- Ensure network changes do not affect safe operational control.
- Work with Audit, Security, and Government organizations for compliance with policies and standards.
- Manage incidents on CNI networks to restore resilience quickly.
- Lead root cause analysis investigations to prevent recurrence of issues.
- Oversee annual budget and track actuals against the approved plan.
- Ensure disaster recovery plans are in place and tested appropriately.
Key Skills:
- Operational experience in IP/MPLS/Ethernet/SDH networks.
- Ability to manage resources for network and telemetry operations.
- Experience managing outsourced services in an ITIL environment.
- Strong knowledge of network, telemetry, and SCADA infrastructure.
- Experience with network monitoring tools and fault finding.
- Understanding of security and external regulations impacting operational networks.
- Experience managing critical major incidents out of hours.
- Educated to degree level in computing or relevant engineering discipline.
- Relevant industry certifications (e.g., ITIL Practitioner, CCNA/DA, CCNP, Security) desirable.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Wokingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Greetings We are Hiring Lead Administrator - L1 65891 Position in Warwick/Wokingham Job Description Location Warwick/Wokingham - 2-3 days a week Candidate should be based within 1 hour travel distance from the given location. SC Cleared/SC Expired/SC eligible Immediate- 1 week Np.
Knowledge and Qualifications Required • This role will suit a candidate with operational experience in IP/MPLS/Ethernet/SDH networks ideally in a Utilities environment. • Ability to manage all of resources required to run best in class network & telemetry operations. • Ensure that outsourced services and partners effectively deliver to very high standards. • Experience of managing outsourced services in an ITIL environment is required, effectively, setting direction, control and standards, ideally in operational network environments. • Strong knowledge of appropriate technology and systems that make up the network, telemetry and SCADA infrastructure would be an advantage. • Use of network monitoring tools and fault finding in these networks Understand and interpret both security and external regulations that impact upon the operation and effective running of operational networks. • Experience of managing critical major incidents out of hours is also required for this role. • This will be through participation in an out of hours rota.Candidate must be able to achieve SC security vetting clearance Educated to degree level in computing or relevant engineering discipline. Relevant industry certification (e.g. ITIL Practitioner, CCNA/DA, CCNP, Security) desirable
Key Tasks • Act as a focal point for business service liaison (including projects and service transition) • Manage all of the resources including third party service providers in the provision of • operational management and control of CNI SCADA and CNI networks, ensuring • that they are fully resilient, safe and secure. • Work with IS, the business and all third party stakeholders to ensure that any changes to the networks and associated hardware are not going to affect the safe operational control of the networks. • Work with Audit, Security and any other outside Government organisations to ensure that the support operations are compliant with policies and standards expected of critical CNI networks. • Participation in the management of incidents on CNI networks ensuring that resilience is brought back into operations a quickly as possible. • Lead root cause analysis investigations to ensure that learning is fed back to prevent reoccurrence. • Responsibility for annual budget and track actuals against an approved budget plan. • Ensure that disaster recovery plans are in place and tested appropriately Mandatory Skills: Network Implementation . Experience: 5-8 Years .