On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Network Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract based REMOTELY - occasional need to attend Manchester, Leeds or Newcastle office as and when required.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:
. Help people to move into work and support those already in work to progress, with the aim of increasing overall workforce participation
. Help people to plan and save for later life, while providing a safety net for those who need it now
. Provide effective, efficient, and innovative services to the millions of claimants who rely on us every day, including the most vulnerable in society
. Improve experience of our services while maximising value for money for the taxpayer.

.An Active SC Clearance is required for this position*

As a Network Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:
. Provide support for incident and problem resolution, this could involve out of hours work.
. Implement BAU exercises, this could involve out of hours work.
. Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with employees at all levels of the organisation and 3rd-Parties suppliers.
. Understand ITSM process with a focus on Incident, Problem and Accept into Service Management.
. Conduct network monitoring and analysis tooling - eg BMC Entuity, Wireshark and NetScout
. Have a strong technical knowledge in Cloud and On-Prem Network Infrastructure, Next Generation Firewall, Load-balancing, and PKI technologies

Technical Skills required:
. Aruba Central and Clearpass
. Palo Alto Firewalls and Panorama.
. F5 Big-IP LTM & GTM
. Arista Cloud-vision and DC-VXLAN
. Infrastructure as Code and Network Automation in Terraform, Ansible and Python

Essential:
. An Active SC Clearance
. Experience of problem-solving, analytical skills, with the ability to think critically, creatively, and independently to solve issues.
. Excellent planning and implementation methodology.
. Experience of ITSM processes
. Experience of and understanding of Network infra in Wi-Fi, DC On-prem, Cloud, Next Generation Firewall, Load-balancing, and PKI technologies.
. Experience with network monitoring and analysis tooling.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".