| Salary £41,496 - £46,549 Per annum | Permanent, Full Time, 37 hours per week | Pro Rata

About the role

We are looking for an experienced senior engineer/designer for our network team, working in a busy environment. You will have Professional or expert level qualification in relevant skill areas (e.g. Cisco CCNP) or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience in designing, implementing and supporting solutions. Working for the fourth largest local authority delivering Digital Services, you will benefit from great terms and conditions of employment whilst working in a fast paced technical environment.

Lancashire County Council operates a large Service Provider network that provides critical network connectivity to around 1,000 local government and education locations, and over 115,000 end-users. We are looking for an engineer to be a technical lead on a range of exciting projects, with expertise needed in areas such as WAN/ISP technologies (Full Fibre, DWDM, Juniper, MPLS, BGP), Data Centre Network technologies (EVPN, VXLAN, Cloud), Enterprise LAN & Wireless (Aruba, Cisco), Network Security (Clearpass, Checkpoint) and Network Monitoring (Zabbix).

About us

Lancashire County Council is the fourth largest local authority in England and covers a huge geographic area and a wide range of communities both urban and rural. The council's remit is substantial, varied and complex, delivering a wide range of services to the 1.2 million people who live here; we exist to serve the people, schools, businesses and organisations of Lancashire and beyond.

This is an exciting time to join Lancashire County Council, with plenty of interesting projects in the pipeline as we work to support Lancashire County Council's digital strategy.

This post offers a real opportunity to make a difference to the delivery of public services across Lancashire.

For an informal discussion about the post please contact Peter Schofield on 01772 530515 or 07796 346196.

How to apply

Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.

The Benefits

We value our staff as individuals and aim to help them achieve their full potential while working for us. We offer a work environment that encourages staff engagement, team working and problem solving and we recognise the importance and benefits of a good work life balance. In return for your passion and expertise we offer all our staff a generous benefits package equal to the terms and conditions enjoyed by all council staff.

These are just some of the benefits you could enjoy:

• Flexible working hours (37 hrs per week) along with opportunities for agile working
• Extremely generous Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, death in service payments, life assurance and dependents pensions
• Great Holiday Entitlement: 26 days annual leave entitlement rising to 32, after five years' continuous service. Eight bank holidays and two further additional statutory days during the Christmas and New Year period
• Family friendly employer: Help to balance family commitments, including generous maternity leave, paternity leave and support for working carers,aAdoption and parental leave. Childcare voucher scheme.

Great location, just a short walk from the train station and main bus route.

The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013) . If successful you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a 'disclosure'. Further information can be found on the 'Our Recruitment Process' tab.

Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.

In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website

We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.

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