Job Introduction

Job Title:  ICT Senior Network Engineer

Salary Banding:  £42,000 - £55,500 per annum

Job Location:  Birchwood, Warrington

Contract Duration:  Permanent

Hours (weekly):  35 (Monday to Friday)

Are you a Cisco Certified Network Professional, looking for a role where you can take the lead in managing major enterprise level network projects?

There are a lot of great things happening at Your Housing Group making it a good time to join the business and get involved. We are currently implementing significant investment into Digital and Organisational transformation and our ICT Team is growing and evolving significantly.

As part of this growth and investment, our Infrastructure team has recently completed a large-scale transformation project and we are continuing to decommission our legacy network infrastructure in favour of new enterprise level systems.

Due to this, we now have an opportunity for a capable Senior Network Engineer to join our collaborative ICT function to maintain and develop the network infrastructure at YHG encompassing Cisco firewall, switching and Meraki Cloud technologies.

As our Senior Network Engineer, you will help shape further change for the business and play a key role in upgrading networks across the group with projects such as On-Domain Wi-Fi implementation, and taking a lead in the configuration of our new Nexus and Catalyst systems, so there’s a lot of significant Network projects here at YHG to keep you challenged, interested, and further develop your experience.

Ideally you will be a CCNP, certified in either Routing & Switching or Security (or working towards one of these) and will have experience working at a high level of autonomy supervising, mentoring and collaborating with other Network Engineers on major projects.

If you have a majority of the following experience, we would really like to hear from you:

• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Certified or working towards
• Implementing, supporting and managing LAN, WAN and secure wireless network environments
• Resolving complex technical problems in accordance with the Group's policies & processes.
• Responsible for a network technical maintenance programme, resolving failures in hardware and software and ensuring appropriate “housekeeping” tasks are implemented
• Enterprise level firewalls and network security applications/appliances
• Working knowledge of AD, DHCP, TCP/IP and DNS configuration and all relevant protocols
• Ability to maintain and support VoIP Telephony systems
• Assisting in the delivery of ICT infrastructure projects to deliver the required solution, ensuring that appropriate controls are in place and that the solution is handed over to the Service Desk
• Working knowledge of change control methodologies and the production & maintenance of technical documentation in a timely and accurate manner for implemented changes
• Design and plan the effective testing of new systems, releases and major upgrades applying suitable test methodologies as required
• Being a point of escalation for network related issues escalated from Service Desk
• Work with 3^rd party support and delivery partners, ensuring that they work to the Group’s internal standards and procedures.

  In addition to the above you will embrace the culture of continuous improvement to support Value for Money throughout the organisation and have a passion for doing things right first time.

In return, we offer our Senior Network Engineer a competitive salary of £42,000 - £55,500 dependent on experience. Plus, a great benefits package including – Flexible working, 25 days holiday plus all bank holidays, (plus an option to buy further holidays), pension (matched up to 8%), Life insurance, medical benefits scheme subsidised gym memberships, a discounted shopping scheme and Half price cinema tickets.

Your Housing Group is a new generation of housing provider, working efficiently and effectively to build as many quality houses as possible, thereby playing its part in solving the national housing crisis. With over 28,300 homes across the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands, the business has a large portfolio of retirement living developments and an innovative private rental offer in Nuvu.

Closing date:  22 March 2019                 

Should we receive a high number of applications, we may close this vacancy earlier than the date indicated above

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for tenants or anyone who resides in a Your Housing Group property.  It also operates the scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability. Those applicants who meet the minimum requirements for the role as set out in the role profile will be guaranteed an interview.  Some roles may be subject to probity checks which will override the scheme where a potential conflict of interest or a probity matter has been identified. 

Your Housing Group