Network Infrastructure Specialist

2 weeks ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom The National Lottery Community Fund Full time
Job Title: Network Infrastructure Specialist

The National Lottery Community Fund is seeking a skilled Network Infrastructure Specialist to join their IT Infrastructure Team in Birmingham. This role will report directly to the Head of IT Infrastructure and involve hybrid office working with occasional travel to UK sites.

As a Network Infrastructure Specialist, you will play a crucial role in maintaining and enhancing the organization's IT network, ensuring optimal performance, up-to-date security, and reliability.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Manage and optimize network infrastructure, including on-premise networks, public cloud networks, virtual networks, and WAN technologies.
  • Configure and manage Firewalls, Routers, Access Points, Switches, SD-WAN, and Networking Appliances.
  • Demonstrate advanced knowledge of networking, including TCP/IP protocols, subnetting, VLANs, load balancing, and VPNs.
  • Apply strong analytical and troubleshooting skills to resolve network issues.
  • Monitor network performance, identify, and resolve bottlenecks.
  • Collaborate with service desk staff, providing education and support while resolving network-related tickets.
  • Be responsible for end-to-end delivery of project tasks.
  • Lead networking elements of projects to improve production environments.
  • Configure and install hardware in both office and data center environments.
  • Ability to write clear, concise technical documentation, such as network designs.
  • Responsible for ensuring that any designs produced are in line with the current network architecture and infrastructure strategy documentation and are fit for purpose.
  • Contribute to design and architecture discussions.
  • Mitigate Pen Test and Audit findings.
  • Participate in out-of-hours implementations of change/support as required.
  • Accurate estimation of workload and timelines for delivery.
  • Support and maintain backup and disaster recovery solutions.
  • Compliance to regulatory and mandatory policies.
  • Relevant vendor management experience.
  • Provide timely updates and timely escalation of issues to the right stakeholders.
Requirements:
  • 3+ years in network administration and deployment.
  • Experience with Cisco Switches, including configuration, security, and firmware updates.
  • Knowledge of Firewalls (preferentially Barracuda and Azure Firewalls).
  • Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services and architectures, networking (NSG, VNet peering, UDR, Private Link/Endpoint, Azure Firewall, load balancer).
  • Knowledge of Aruba SilverPeak SD-WAN.
  • Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents escalated from service desk support.
Desirable Criteria:
  • Knowledge of Arista Wireless Access Points.
  • Zero Trust Network Architecture – Security Service Edge such as Netskope or Zscaler.
  • Familiarity with PRTG, SolarWinds, or similar monitoring tooling.

The National Lottery Community Fund is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion and works hard to ensure their funding reaches where it is needed. They positively welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds and are a Disability Confident Employer.

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