Principal Network and Security Specialist

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 387517

**Salary**:

- £71,730 - £87,521
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- Grade 6

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- CO - Digital

**Type of role**:

- Information Technology

**Working pattern**:

- Full-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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- London

About the job

**Job summary**:
The Cabinet Office is undergoing a significant Digital Transformation. Over the next three years we aspire to make UK Government digital services the best in the world, meeting or exceeding the benchmark set globally by the best public or private sector standards.

For us to meet this ambition we are aiming to further improve the conditions, processes and expertise we have in place to be set up for success. This means we need to go much further and faster and strengthen the delivery of digital data and technology in government.

To support these ambitions we have established a new to build on existing strengths and is based on six principles;
- Build trust by stabilising services and getting the basics right;
- Be the gateway for all digital, data and technology services delivered by the Cabinet Office to its civil servants and ministerial bodies;
- Provide impeccable service to our users;
- Drive digital, data and technology thought leadership;
- Transform ways of working;
- Build sustainable capabilities.

**Job description**:
The Principal Network and Security Specialist will have the responsibility to design networking and Cyber Security services, create documentation, change management and root cause analysis as well as acting as an escalation point for the Live Service as well as line management of the Lead Network engineers responsible for day to day network operations.

The role is part of Cabinet Office Digital Enterprise Services, (Technical Operations (TechOps)) which provides, maintains and supports the infrastructure, telephony, network, WiFi, end-user devices, cloud capability and software across the entire Cabinet Office estate.

Our user base includes the Government Digital Service (GDS), Crown Commercial Services (CCS), Estates and Government Property Agency (GPA).

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 Network and Security Specialist will have the responsibility to design networking and Cyber Security services, create documentation, change management and root cause analysis as well as acting as an escalation point for the Live Service as well as line management of the Lead Network engineers responsible for day to day network operations.

**Main responsibilities**
- Provide leadership to Network Operations and line management to the Lead Network Engineers;
- Change requests for network changes;
- Delivery and Resource Plans;
- Documentation of processes for security processes such as incident processes, vulnerability management, compliance;
- Maintain GovAssured documentation and artifacts set, including development of processes to ensure compliance;
- Work with the Principal Infrastructure Engineer, Principal Technical Architect and Lead Infrastructure Engineers on the day-to-day management of the Cabinet Office wireless, LAN, WAN, including the network devices and security devices that are deployed;
- Discover shortfalls in protective monitoring and ensure missing data is shipped to the Splunk SIEM systems. Working closely with the Cyber Transformation Team (CTP) to onboard new log sources across the department into the Cyber Security SIEM Platform as required;
- Work with the Operation teams on security and performance monitoring devices (both virtual and physical) across the IT platforms managed by Cabinet Office Digital;
- Oversee the network operations team, including; technical management, people management, including line management of the Lead Network engineer leading the team;
- Design and implementation of new services as and when required by the Cabinet Office;
- Provide guidance to second/third line support and problem solving for the Cabinet Office internal network;
- Lead on the strategy for the Cabinet Office Network Operations team on the physical and technical implementation of network and security services using key skills to enhance networking and security elements that will be deployed at Cabinet Office;
- Develop process and procedures for other engineers to ensure a secure and robust environment for cabinet office users with KPIs in place for security processes and patching and maintain this level;
- 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;
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