Senior Network Engineer

At Oxford Brookes University, we take immense pride in the outstanding experience we offer our staff and students. You’ll become part of a welcoming, professional community where every individual is valued and recognised as integral to our collective success.

As a modern, forward-thinking institution, we are deeply rooted in a city renowned for its rich cultural and academic heritage. Oxford Brookes is globally recognised for its commitment to high-quality teaching, impactful research, and delivering an exceptional student experience. Our vision is clear: to shape tomorrow through a unique blend of the modern and the traditional, by embracing diversity, seeking innovation, and excelling in education and research.

We are looking for a Network Engineering professional to provide technical leadership; shaping and developing our network infrastructure to deliver ever more sophisticated and reliable services to our staff and student users across our campuses. You’ll be managing state of the art infrastructure equipment from HPE Aruba, Fortinet and F5, alongside ensuring our AWS environment mirrors our onsite networking principles. You’ll help to innovate our service offerings, security and operational efficiency. Collaborating with colleagues across IT Services and within faculties you’ll play a key role in delivering positive organisational outcomes through defining solutions, solving problems and delivering projects and changes.

IT Services at Oxford Brookes University is a modern, service-oriented environment that is constantly embracing change. You will be joining the team at an exciting time and will be contributing to the implementation of our hybrid cloud strategy. We are transforming university life through the use of seamless digital technologies and services whilst delivering excellent customer service. You will be provided with development opportunities both professionally and personally that will enable you to continue to enhance your skills and knowledge. 

You’ll be passionate about network infrastructure, having lived and breathed network management for large organisations, particularly using the HPE Aruba ecosystem. You’ll be able to demonstrate successful project delivery, thriving in an environment that adapts to organisational needs with supportive colleagues - this is a role for collaborators. You’ll be able to identify, communicate and manage technical risks, representing the Networks teams at a variety of internal and external forums. You’re keen on continual development, for the organisation and for yourself. Your curiosity helps you to solve problems and step into new areas of technology to build capability and confidence, and you’ll be able to apply new learning to improving services, systems and processes.

We support hybrid working. Our team is based at the Headington Campus in Oxford, and we enjoy spending time working on projects, engaging with our users and collaborating with each other. Likewise, time off campus to focus on specific tasks is really helpful. Typically, we spend 2 days on campus and 3 days working remotely.

You’ll enjoy the lively atmosphere and the opportunity to be part of a thriving academic community.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:

At Oxford Brookes, inclusivity is one of our five guiding principles: we take positive steps to create an environment in which we celebrate, value and provide equal opportunity to all. We are committed to recruiting from the widest possible pool and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates who embrace our values, regardless of their background. 

As a Disability Confident Employer we guarantee to interview any disabled applicant who meets the essential selection criteria.

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