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The Scottish Ambulance Service is seeking to recruit a Network and Security Officer to work within the Network and Security team and overall ICT Department. The team provides Network Support, Maintenance and Installation to all our sites across Scotland including our Three Control rooms operating in a 24/7 environment.
The Network and Security Officer role is vital in ensuring the stability and effectiveness of the network. The successful candidate will have minimal two years’ experience providing Network Support and is required to have in-depth working knowledge of LAN, WAN and Firewall technologies.
The role includes maintaining the security of our estate by utilising our security solutions.
Additional technologies and Equipment (Not Exhaustive) covered by the Network and Security Team:
- Extreme Enterprise LAN switches
- Cisco ASA Firewalls, stand-alone and failover pairs
- SMB network LAN switches
- Wireless Bridges for Infrastructure expansion
- Corporate Wireless access technology
- VPN technology
- Layer 2 transceiver devices
- SWAN National Network
- Corporate Intranet and Web Site
- Anti-Malware and end point protection software
- Device control software
- Anti-Malware centralized server
- Secure access systems to managed WAN
- Encryption technologies
- Network Access Control system (NAC)
- Network Performance Monitoring Software and Diagnostic Tools
The ideal candidate will be CCNA certified or educated to Degree Level in an equivalent Subject.
The role is central belt based although significant Travel throughout the country is required.
A clean valid Full UK Driving Licence is essential.
Why work for us?
Noted benefits are our graduated annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, there are many other benefits to working for the Scottish Ambulance Service such as life assurance, injury benefits, employee counselling and fast track physiotherapy service. Our values are important to us, recognised through our annual recognition and long service awards.
You can read more about the benefits on working for us by visiting our website.