DWP Digital Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Overview

Join to apply for the Senior Network Operations Engineer role at DWP Digital.

This range is provided by DWP Digital. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range: Pay up to £68,517 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Influential, with strong leadership and management skills.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to think critically, creatively, and independently to solve issues.
• Excellent planning and implementation methodology.
• Skilled Practitioner with extensive experience and proven track record in the understanding of ITSM processes.
• Detailed working knowledge and practical experience of Network infra in Wifi, DC On-prem, Cloud, Next Generation Firewall, Load-balancing, and PKI technologies.
• Significant demonstrable experience with network monitoring and analysis tooling

You and your role

Our Senior Network Engineers provide operational support and carry out planned BAU work such as upgrades and failover exercise as well as provide input into service improvements.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you\'ll guide a team of capable engineers, support complex infrastructure, and drive innovation across Wi-Fi, On-Prem, and Cloud environments.

Your expertise in network tooling (e.g. Wireshark, NetScout, BMC Entuity), Cloud and On-Prem infrastructure, NGFWs, load balancers and PKI will be key. Familiarity with Aruba Central, ClearPass, Arista CloudVision and network automation tools like Terraform, Ansible and Python are also desirable, but not essential.

We want you to be at your best too. We\'ll give you the tools and time to build your skills and learn new tricks - with coaching, mentoring, qualifications and formal learning, meet-ups or whatever else works for you.

Location & Hybrid Working

Location: You\'ll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle, whichever is more convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you\'ll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay & Benefits

Pay: Up to £68,517

Pension: Employer contributions worth 28.97% (approximately £16,000 per year).

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time. Up to 3 extra days off a month on flexitime plus public holidays.

Benefits: A broad package including flexible working, volunteering time, employee discounts, and professional development opportunities.

Process

We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are two stages:

Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There\'ll be full instructions when you click through.

Interview: a single-stage interview online.

Click Apply for more information and to start your application.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering, Information Technology, and Management
• Industries: Computer Networking Products, Embedded Software Products, and Technology, Information and Internet