Network Engineer x2

About the role

We are seeking an ambitious, dynamic, and highly skilled Network Engineer to support and promote best practice use of our extensive network estate and essential services that benefit the experiences of our students and staff.

About you

Utilising your knowledge and experience as an experienced Senior Network Engineer, you will be working in a hands-on capacity, acting as a prominent team member, proactively managing and maintaining an extensive and developing technical infrastructure, whist ensuring our customers achieve maximum benefits from our network. Being ambitious, collaborative and showing strong initiative will be key to success.

About our Division

Led by our Director of IT Services and her Leadership team, we are now embarking on an ambitious programme of change. Over the coming years, this digital transition will be an ever-developing programme supported by senior stakeholders both financially and strategically. This University will be a very different world in years to come and aspires to achieve levels of performance and digital delivery yet unseen in the sector.

All of this is underpinned by major construction and estate renewal, an exciting programme of work to add thousands of accommodation spaces, and a network replacement project to install the latest digital infrastructure as part of the journey towards a fully data-enabled organisation.

Please find further information regarding the division at IT Services & Sussex Projects: University of Sussex

Why work here

Our university is situated off the A27, next to the beautiful South Downs where you will enjoy everything that our 150-acre campus has to offer. We are accessible by public transport; Falmer train station is a five-minute walk to campus and several bus stops are located within campus. We also have dedicated cycling paths and encourage our staff to use these with our offering of a cycle to work scheme. 

Sussex is a renowned, multi-accredited, research-led International University and this is only possible because of the people that work here. Whether you are a member of Faculty, part of a Professional Services team or a Student, it’s our people that make us great and we want you to be part of that.

Find out more about our reward and benefits package.

Find out about our equality, diversity and inclusion

Further Key Information

Please contact Sebastian Harrington s.m.harrington@sussex.ac.uk for informal enquiries.

For full details and how to apply see our vacancies page.

The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

The University requires that work undertaken for the University is performed in the UK. 

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