Network Manager - Government

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Join one of Britain’s oldest rural police forces, covering around 1,000 square miles of countryside, forest, and valley alongside busy urban centres, and serving a large, business-critical public-sector environment.

The organization is looking to appoint a Network Manager to lead a six-person network and voice engineering team. The ideal candidate will take responsibility for data networking, voice, security, and cloud-connected infrastructure, remaining technically credible at a senior level and providing technical direction when complex incidents or projects require escalation. This is not a purely managerial position.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of six network and voice engineers
• Provide technical leadership across the network estate
• Manage both data and voice engineering functions
• Support and develop engineers across Levels 3 and 4
• Provide senior escalation for complex infrastructure issues
• Maintain operational resilience across critical services
• Oversee infrastructure upgrades and technical projects
• Work with internal teams, suppliers and technology partners
• Manage workload, priorities and engineering resources
• Maintain technical standards across the environment
• Participate in a 1-in-4 on-call rota
• Remain technically engaged rather than purely managerial
• Cisco enterprise networking
• LAN and WAN
• Routing and switching
• SD-WAN
• SASE
• Palo Alto
• Cisco Firepower
• Check Point
• Enterprise firewalls
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager, CUCM
• Microsoft Teams telephony
• Voice and unified communications
• Cloud-connected infrastructure

Skills/Must Have:

• Strong enterprise networking background
• Previous network team leadership or management experience
• Excellent LAN and WAN knowledge
• Strong routing and switching fundamentals
• Good understanding of enterprise firewalls
• Experience across network security technologies
• Understanding of voice and unified communications
• Comfortable working across Cisco environments
• Technically capable of challenging and supporting senior engineers
• Experience managing incidents and technical escalations
• Strong stakeholder and supplier management
• Comfortable operating within a business-critical environment
• A stronger data networking background is preferred, although candidates need enough understanding of voice technologies to effectively manage the complete team.

Location & Working Pattern:

• 1-in-4 on-call rota
• Hybrid working
• 2 to 3 days per week in Gloucester
• Permanent position

Benefits:

• Approximately £4,000 annual on-call allowance

Salary:

• £70,000 basic salary

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