Senior Network Engineer: Automation & Resilience Leader

DWP Digital; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

DWP Digital in Manchester is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join the Network Services team. You will be a role model for infrastructure excellence and help maintain the reliability and resilience of the department's networks.

You will lead design and delivery of complex networking solutions, acting across architecture, engineering and external partners to ensure alignment with IT strategy, standards and service goals. Occasional out-of-hours work may be required.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Infrastructure engineers and delivering network services aligned to IT strategy.
• Ability to communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience managing complex technical solutions with risk and dependency management.
• Experience designing and managing VXLAN overlays for data centre networking.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Infrastructure team to design and deliver aligned infrastructure services.
• Communicate effectively across support, engineering, business users, architecture and suppliers.
• Manage the implementation of complex technical solutions, identifying risks and dependencies.
• Design and manage VXLAN overlays for scalable data centre networking.

Skills

Networking

Team leadership

Stakeholder communication

Infrastructure design

Tools

Python

Ansible

VXLAN

Arista

Palo Alto

Aruba

AWS

Azure

Job description

DWP Digital in Manchester is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join the Network Services team. You will be a role model for infrastructure excellence and help maintain the reliability and resilience of the department's networks.

You will lead design and delivery of complex networking solutions, acting across architecture, engineering and external partners to ensure alignment with IT strategy, standards and service goals. Occasional out-of-hours work may be required.