ICT Infrastructure and Security Specialist

This is a fantastic opportunity to join Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service, an organisation that is passionate about changing and saving lives. Our corporate staff are absolutely vital in helping to make our communities safer and healthier.  Without them, we couldn’t do it.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits and strive to ensure that staff are valued and rewarded. For example, we offer a flexi time scheme, Local Government Pension Scheme, a generous annual leave allowance, a variety of family friendly schemes including 39 weeks’ full pay during maternity leave (subject to qualifying criteria) and health & well-being services.

As an ICT Infrastructure and Security Specialist in our ICT department you will:

·       Provide support and monitoring of all DWFRS networks and security, ensuring high levels of continued service across all operational and corporate DWFRS sites •  

·       Providing design, maintenance and delivery of changes to DWFRS infrastructure and security across the service and its datacentres

·       Directly managing small to medium sized projects from scoping, recommending design solutions, procurement, delivery budgets through to handover into business and usual (BAU) with management processes and documentation. Providing key specialist advice and support to large ICT whole team projects. Including managing technicians to achieve project tasks, for example, rolling out of new systems and delivering the BAU tasks

What makes you our ideal ICT Infrastructure and Security Specialist?

·       Experience of working with ICT infrastructure, and security design, understanding of both local and nationally mandated compliance.

·       Experience of project management, and dealing with multiple tasks at the same time

·       Ability to recognises issues and generate solutions to achieve business improvement

For full details of the role and requirements please have a look at the job description and person specification.

Other Information:

·       If Driving is essential to the role: You must have a full current driving licence and be able to fulfill the significant travel requirements of the role. Use of your own vehicle will be required; however, a Service vehicle may be available. Please note Service vehicles are manual transmission only. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, we would still welcome your application and will explore any reasonable adjustments that could be put in place.

·       The role involves some evening and weekend working.

·       A Standard Disclosure & Barring Service Check (DBS) clearance will be undertaken on the successful individual prior to offer of employment.

·       Any offer of employment will be subject to full pre-employment checks which include identity checks, right to work in the UK, medical, negative drug test and receipt of satisfactory references, and an explanation of any gaps in employment in the last 3 years.

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For full information please refer to Job Advert, Job Description and Person Specification on our Website link.