OT Network Engineer

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At National Grid, we light up the world by harnessing the unique strengths of our people. Join us as a OT Network Engineer to be part of a team that's driving forward the energy transition, creating a brighter, more sustainable future for all. Unleash your superpower and bring energy to life.

National Grid is hiring a OT Network Engineer - This position is based from our Warwick office.

As an OT Network Engineer within our operational technology team, you will use your technical experience and skills to deliver best in class service for stakeholders and customers, ensuring the security and reliability of the network infrastructure is upheld without compromise.

Working alongside senior and principal engineers, you will play an integral role supporting OT infrastructure across operations and project delivery, supporting senior members with routine network and cyber activity showing a desire to develop your skillset through a technical career path.

• Have a technical interest in networks and cyber security, maintaining existing infrastructure and assisting in testing and the implementation of new software and hardware through network re-fresh projects.
• Experienced working across project lifecycle and within associated industry standards/governance regimes for delivery of mission critical projects.
• A team player and experience in taking direction from senior team members and showing a willingness to develop themselves through a technical career path.
• Ability to engage work alongside senior peers and stakeholders. Can clearly communicate technical aspects of the project with relevance to the overall delivery.
• Technical skills and experience in Network Security, Layer 2/3 Routing and Switching and associated networking protocols in an OT technical environment.

• Experience working in high performing, technical engineering teams across project, change, incident, delivery and BAU operations.
• Can demonstrate practical problem solving, good communications skills, both technical and non-technical, with experience working with, and influencing multiple stakeholders.
• Able to effectively communicate with stakeholders from peer groups to senior stakeholders.
• Dependable and trusted to work with sensitive and confidential information, experience working with a range of business stakeholders.

• Is detailed, methodical and analytical producing high-quality output and thinking.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates the ability to deal with project and BAU support in Operational Technology networks, self-driven and able to prioritise work where necessary.
• Experience in, and delivering results across Technical Operations, Incident, Problem and Change Management, Project Management, Continuous Improvement.
• Technical Certifications across one or more vendors such as CCNA.

A competitive salary between £47,000 - £56,000 dependent on capability

As well as your base salary, you will receive

• 26 days holiday, plus eight statutory days, an option to buy extra holiday days, and the option to holiday swap up to 3 bank holiday days
• An annual performance incentive
• A generous pension scheme, double matched up to 6% of your salary each month. For every £1 you contribute we’ll put in another £2, so if you put in 6%, we’ll add 12% giving a total of 18% to your pension pot
• Life insurance at 10 times basic salary
• Employer funding towards a portion of your Private Medical Insurance.
• You will also have access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

The closing date for this vacancy is 1st…