Network Services Manager

This person is to help us lead a team of talented system professionals, grow new additions to the team for the future and grow their own skills along the way. The team is diverse and adaptive varying from beginners to experienced, cross-skilling in technology all the time. The activities covered are broad, exploiting a range of software languages and system environments such as Cisco ISE, Active Identify, .NET Framework and PowerDNS to name but a few, truly embracing the hybrid skills of the future! Although a good degree of automation exists there is much more that can be achieved. What you'll be doing

• Leading a dynamic team of around 8 people including full time staff and rotating "new" joiners to BT.
• Collaborating with the wider teams in Internal Networks to ensure buddy system in place to support your new joiners on their development journey.
• Nurturing and championing software best practice & methods within the team using your software skills and qualifications, encouraging exploration and initiative.
• Influencing on aspects of design and development activities for all Network Services solutions across multiple platforms.
• Leading on software development and data engineering activities to keep your skills fresh, ensuring we are putting data at the heart of everything we do.
• Supporting the teams ambition to grow our DevOps culture throughout.
We'd love you to apply if you have strong experience with some of the following:
• Coaching others to help them learn and grown
• Owning, delivering and evolving applications/systems/platforms
• Application coding (e.g. Visual Studio, .NET Framework, Python),
• Data engineering
• Hold or previously held SC Clearance
• Data analytics (e.g. Splunk, SQL)
• One time authentication
• Working in a virtualised data centre services environment
• Application security
• API development
• Authentication incl AAA, TACACS and Radius
• Networking Fundamentals
• Application monitoring
  
  Through attention to detail, best practices and clear outcomes we are able to provide excellent service to all of our customer both internal and external. Also being able to deliver and mange in life complex systems and integrations to allow the business to operate., People Leadership - Leading or coaching and mentoring people in an ASG team.
• Code/Software - Good level of experience developing code for use in automation, reporting, auditing and administration including use in Data analytics
• Stakeholder Management
• Experience of Networking protocols and Enterprise Data Centre environments
• An appetite and proven history of self-learning for the future.
  
  BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
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