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Job reference: PSX-019018
Salary: £27,924 to £32,344 per annum depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Professional Services
Location: Oxford Road, Manchester
Employment type: Fixed Term
Division/Team: Engineering
Hours Per Week: 35 hours per week
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 13/06/2022
Contract Duration: Fixed Term starting as soon as possible for 12 months
School/Directorate: Directorate of IT Services

Job Description

The University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a truly global institution with a reputation for education and innovation that resonates across the world, offering a wide range of courses and boasting outstanding facilities in the centre of Manchester.

About IT Services

IT Services at the University of Manchester is a vibrant and fast-moving department, we focus on delivering excellent customer service and quality services for our staff, students and researchers. 

Find out more about our organisation and values:

The team

The Network team sits within the core area of Engineering in IT Services, providing underpinning network services and support to our customers. Our network team work closely with all parts of IT Services and throughout the University to ensure our services are consistently meeting and adapting to the changing needs of the University.

The University of Manchester is large and steeped in history and heritage, as such our IT landscape is broad and complex. From cultural institutions such as Jodrell Bank, to state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities such as the new Engineering Buildings and the National Graphene Institute, the scope of the services we provide are wide-ranging.

The role

The University of Manchester operates one of the largest single site campus networks in the UK and is currently undergoing a major transformation of all its LAN, Data Centre and DDI infrastructure.

The roles will be working under the direction of our strategic Network partner (Roc Technologies) on a day-to-day basis, you will support Level 1 & 2 management of our LAN and Data Centre networks, handling incidents and service requests across our campus as assigned.

You will work within a team comprised of both University and Roc colleagues that is focused on incident and break-fix resolution for the campus network. Day-to-day direction over tasks and priorities will come from our network partner (Roc) and you will be responsible for resolving incidents and fulfilling service requests across our LAN and Data Centre networks working in conjunction with our partner’s NOC service. You will also be working with the wider network and telecoms team to develop and continuously improve our services.

In return, the University will provide you with exposure to the latest in HPE Aruba & Arista technologies and an opportunity to contribute towards the development of one the largest software defined campus networks within the UK.

Specific Role Requirements

You will be self-starters with the ability to work in a team or alone on time critical tasks. You will be professional and diligent. It is imperative that you have a positive ‘can-do’ attitude’ and can work well as part of a hybrid delivery-focused team.

The person
The successful candidate will possess some of the following experience:

  • Network (LAN and wireless) troubleshooting experience either with Cisco or Aruba technology.
  • Experience of working in a service support function, dealing with customers to resolve issues and answer their questions
  • Ability to quickly assess outages and identify the likely root cause
  • Experience of network security
  • Analytical with strong attention to detail – able to identify and articulate issues to a non-technical audience
  • Ability to work to tight timescales without sacrificing quality

When addressing the person specification criteria in your application for this role, please ensure you make reference to the specific role requirements above.

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status.  All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Blended working arrangements may be considered           

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Warren Mittoo

Email: warren.mittoo@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.

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