Guy's and ST Thomas NHS Trust Network and Security team (N& S) have great opportunities for the right candidates. Working in a highly motivated and dedicated team supporting one of the UK's largest NHS trusts across multiple sites. As a world leader in healthcare, IT has become a supporting pillar, and the Network and Security Team is the foundation of the IT Services. Working on day to day challenging calls to multimillion pound projects - to keep staff working and implementing up to date systemswhich enable better patient care. The N& S team support a highly complex operation and administration of multiple critical services.

Main duties of the job

This role will hold responsibility for managing and maintaining the network and security infrastructure services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year across the Trust sites plus our off site services. The position holder will be expected to keep calm under pressure, focused and deliver to a high standard. The post will cover installations of new equipment, capacity planning, documentation, monitoring, mentoring, complex problem solving and small project Designs as well as supporting laymen to decide on best solutions for their problems.

Further responsibilities include supporting the business to deliver all requests and projects, identify and resolve all issues whether they are raised by the business through service desk request or they have been identified by Network Management support tools or through analysis of trends.

• One of the key job responsibilities for the post holder is to be able to act on their own initiative and manage multiple work streams at once
• Working as part of an ON CALL team you will be expected to react to OOH (Out of Hours - 24*7*365/6) issues.

About us

The Directorate provides services and products that are used across the Trust. We work closely with the South East London Integrated Care System, and especially with our partners in Kings Health Partners (KHP), Kings College Hospital (KCH), King's College London (KCL) and the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust (RBH). This will be formalised into a shared service operating model that will be deployed across GSTT, KCH and RBH. Our operating model has been revised in 2020 to position the Directorate as a lean agile organisation which delivers the Trust's digital ambition. The key characteristics of this operating model are:

• A more forward-looking and strategic approach
• Significant investment in a new Electronic Health Record (EHR) which will catalyse a Trust-wide programme of work to transform the way technology and data is used across our services
• Improved working relationships with our customers by embedding some of our staff and carrying out some of our functions within our customers' teams where it makes sense to do so
• Consistent standards and approaches to programme delivery and technology adoption
• Changes in leadership roles, reinforced through clear objective setting, to support transformation, and to ensure consistent, fair and inclusive leadership and people management across the whole directorate and at every level.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Services the team cover:

• LAN supporting Access Layer
• WAN Wide Area Network / External networks (connections to all existing and new satellite sites)
• Data Centre Connectivity
• WLAN Large WLAN estate to support mobile users including Critical Clinical applications and Wireless VoIP
• Security systems Firewalls, Mail Filtering, Web Filtering, RAS, S/FTP, Certificates
• KHP Interconnect Kings Health Partnership
• Internet and HSCN (NHS Network connecting to all NHS Sites and Some suppliers)
• Protection of Patient Data from malicious attacks and Proactive management of security events
• Transportation and Support of the VoIP telephone system.
• Monitoring and Management Systems
• Security alerting systems
• Integral Transportation of other trust wide critical systems - Crash Call, Bleep, CCTV and Door Activation
• Guest Wi-Fi for suppliers and Patients

Successful applicants will have the relevant experience and qualifications for the role as out lined in the JDs but summarised below:

Preference will be given to candidates who have:

Role

Experience

Qualifications

JE0756 Senior Network and Security Engineer Band 7

Educated to degree level in an IT or computer related field or equivalent technical experience with relevant professional certifications

Knowledge and skills within the Security arena working in a large organisation

Experience working with Cisco Firepower/ASA, Checkpoint and Web / Internet Filtering

CCNP

All candidates will be expected to have:

• ITIL Foundation qualification
• Experience in effectively supporting a large scale, complex IT& T environment
• Proven experience of working within a 24*7 environment as part of an on call team

Applicants unable to demonstrate the above within their application will not be considered.

Preference will be given to candidates who have:

• Experience working with Cisco 6500, 3700, 3700 X and 3800 X, 9300 series switches and Cisco Routers 4000, 1000
• Experience working with Cisco SDA and SD WAN

Experience working with Cisco SDA and SD WAN

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• CCNP
• ITIL Foundation
• Educated to degree level in an IT or computer related field or equivalent technical experience with relevant professional certifications

Experience

Essential

• Expert knowledge and skills within the Security arena working in a large organisation
• Significant experience working with Cisco Firepower, Checkpoint and Web / Internet Filtering

Desirable

• In depth experience of providing IT operational services within the NHS or comparable 24hr/365 days service
• Understanding of the physical to logical relationship between the IT topology

Skills

Essential

• Able to prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills - can explain complex requirements in a clear and concise manner
• Able to prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements
• Ability to manage multiple streams of work simultaneously
• In depth and proven specialist knowledge and technical skills / certification in the following areas: Networks, Cisco, Checkpoint and Security

Desirable

• In depth and proven specialist knowledge and technical skills / certification

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Education Centre

75 york road

London

SE1 7NJ

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