Network Services Manager

Leicestershire County Council; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Le Nottingham City Council recherche un chef de l'équipe des services réseau pour diriger les opérations techniques et stratégiques liées aux infrastructures de communication. Vous serez responsable de la gestion des services de voix, de données et de sécurité, tout en offrant un soutien opérationnel à une équipe de spécialistes. Le poste se concentre sur l'innovation et la résilience des systèmes, avec une opportunité de rester impliqué dans des projets complexes.

Qualifications

• Excellentes compétences en communication verbale et écrite.
• Expérience en gestion d'infrastructures de communication au sein de grandes organisations complexes.
• Participation à une rotation d'appel requise.

Responsibilities

• Diriger et gérer l'équipe des services réseau, y compris la sécurité et l'architecture des données.
• Fournir un leadership technique et opérationnel pour soutenir les infrastructures réseau convergées.
• Participer à la planification de solutions de récupération après sinistre et à la gestion des incidents.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Education

Cisco or Extreme Networks certifications

Job description

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Worker Type: Hybrid Worker (Typically 1 day per week office based, 4 days remote)

Salary: Starting Salary is £49,764 (Level one) rising to £52,805

Location: Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG

We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council.

About the Role

Lead and manage the Network Services team, covering voice, data and perimeter security services including all day to day operational and technical aspects and strategic ownership. Provide technical and operational leadership in the planning, design, implementation and performance of converged network infrastructure to support voice, data and unified communications. Minimise our exposure and risk on Communications and Network failure and disasters through implementation of high availability, resilient solutions, disaster recovery, planning, implementing, testing and readiness. A point of escalation for junior colleagues, and an opportunity to remain ‘hands-on’ for complex project delivery.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

· Excellent communication skills – Verbal/Written

· Industry standard qualifications or certifications - Cisco or Extreme Networks preferred.

· Experience in managing corporate communications and network infrastructures in large, complex, multi-site organisations.

The role requires you to participate in an on call rota.

You can find the job description for this post on the Nottingham City Council careers page.

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact Alex Billing, IT Infrastructure Manager, by email at [contact email].

Closing Date: 1st August 2025

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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