Network Operations Engineer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 30 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £42,614 i £52,442 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 29 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Manchester, Greater Manchester, m2 3lr |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 2 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | DWP Digital |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 418273_1753867399 |
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Network Operations Engineer
Pay up to £52,442 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
Join our Network Service Operations team as Network Engineer in the next step to transform the DWPs datacentre and remote site network infrastructure into leading edge technologies.
We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.
DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.
The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
- Lead criteria: Strong working knowledge and experience of and understanding of either Aruba Wifi/Clearpass or Spine and Leaf topologies/DC-VXLAN (Preferably Arista) as well as a strong understanding of Routing and Switching and a good working knowledge of Cloud (AWS/Azure/OCI), Next Generation Firewall, Load-balancing, and PKI technologies.
- Proven ability and experience of problem-solving, analytical skills, with the ability to think critically, creatively, and independently to solve issues.
- Demonstrable excellent planning and implementation methodology.
- Demonstrable experience of ITSM processes
- Working knowledge and experience with network monitoring and analysis tooling.
You and your role
We're rolling out new projects in Wi-Fi, datacentres and cloud and we need engineers who love getting stuck into tech and making things better. You'll help keep our legacy infrastructure stable while driving improvements across modern platforms.
Expect hands-on work with incident support, BAU tasks and network monitoring tools like Wireshark and NetScout. If you know your way around Aruba Wi-Fi, Arista networks, cloud platforms, firewalls and load balancers you'll feel right at home.
Bonus points if you've played with automation tools like Terraform, Ansible or Python but if not, we'll help you get there.
Details. Wages. Perks.
Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle, whichever is most 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: We offer competitive pay of up to £52,442.
Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £12,000 per year.
Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.
You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.
We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
- Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
- Time off volunteering and charitable giving
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
Process:
We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just 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.
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