Principal Infrastructure Specialist - Central Goverment

Role: Principal Infrastructure Specialist
Contract Length: Until 29/02/2024
Location: Hybrid/London 2-3 days per week
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Candidate: Market Rate
Security Clearance: SC Requested

Spinwell is recruiting for a Principal Infrastructure Specialist for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

What you be doing:
The role will work closely with the Technical Architects and will be designing and maintaining existing network infrastructure, carrying out upgrades and problem resolutions. The Principal Infrastructure Specialist will have the responsibility to design services in the estate and the associated processes, create documentation, change management and root cause analysis as well as providing technical leadership across the teams.

Main responsibilities

• Line management of Lead specialists in network operations, server operations and end user compute teams.
• Work with the Principal Infrastructure Architect and Lead Infrastructure Engineers in the day to day management of the estate, including server, storage, cloud IaaS (AWS), power management, networking (LAN/WAN/WLAN) .
• Design and implementation of new services as and when required
• Provide technical leadership across Server Operations, Network Operations, End user compute, Cloud and Application teams
• To work with the Server Operations team on the physical and technical implementation of servers, storage and power management systems within the estate
• To work with the Network Operations team on the physical and technical implementation user key skills to enhance networking and security elements that will be deployed 
• Develop process and procedures for other engineers to ensure a secure and robust environment for users with KPIs in place is maintain this level
• Develop automation for patching and configuration of; Servers, Switches, Firewalls, WLAN infrastructure
• Work with cloud technologies on the migration of existing systems and implementing new solutions
• Be prepared to work out of normal office hours to implement change, when necessary, including weekend and evening work, including being on call
• To maintain integrity, availability, performance and capacity management of the networking infrastructure.
• Manage escalated Incidents and Problems from the Live Service through to resolution
• Carry out change control activities within the networking infrastructure, working with change managers to enhance the change process.
• Document and configure management of networking infrastructure.
• Work within technical compliance management to co-operate with technologies, such as PSN and Cloud computing etc.
• Develop and possibly carry out security testing techniques for network infrastructure.

Who you are
The skills required are as set out in the definition for a Principal Network Specialist as set out here.

It’s essential that you have:

• Proven line management and technical leadership experience in a highly technical team.
•  Proven experience in writing business cases for technical tools and solutions and articulating the need for senior leadership.
• Proven expert knowledge and experience in administration and automation of Windows Server and Linux operating systems and applications
• Proven expert knowledge of networking design, preferably with equipment from a range of different product vendors
• Proven extensive experience and hands-on experience of the design and implementation of Wireless and Wired networks
• Proven expert experience and hands-on experience of the design and implementation of security devices such as VPN Gateways and clients, Firewalls and Unified Threat Management Devices.
• Proven experience in the management and design of end user device builds, with a focus on security controls.
• Demonstrable experience of using infrastructure as code to setup and configure systems and services..
• Strong demonstrable proven problem solving and analytical skills in a fast paced, multidisciplinary digital/technology environment.
• Ability to document technical design, both high and low level.
• Ability to document processes for technical staff at all levels to follow
• Flexibility to work weekends and evenings as required
• Demonstrable experience in the delivery of secure computer and networking systems with a strong understanding of security concepts
• Experience of change management processes
• Professional skills including excellent customer relationship and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage with senior management, technical architects and solution providers
• Cybersecurity awareness and understanding, experience of protective monitoring and alerting within a SIEM system.
• Strong understanding of encryption protocols and cipher suites.

If you are a Principal Infrastructure Specialist, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!