Description
Summary of the work Provide specialist IT skills within a System Design Authority for Information Systems and Networks (ISN) Delivery Team. The ISN remit is to deliver an exciting new IT capability based on Evergreen and Agile principles. Design and deliver specific services and technologies within a dynamic and specialist team.
Latest start date Monday 18 June 2018
Expected contract length The contract end date at kick off will be 30 April 2019
Location South West England
Who the specialist will work with Working closely as part of the System Design Authority, alongside architects, system designers and business analysts. The specialist will also need to work with the Service Transition and Service operations team, and have engagement with procurement and project management functions.
What the specialist will work on Provide specialist IT skills within a System Design Authority for Information Systems and Networks (ISN) Delivery Team towards specific milestones building to the implementation of Complete Unified Comms Architecture. The ISN remit is to deliver an exciting new IT capability based on Evergreen and Agile principles. Design and deliver specific services and technologies within a dynamic and specialist team.
Address where the work will take place
Bristol, South West and Hereford, West Midlands, work will be split between these locations though the majority of the work will take place in Hereford.
Working arrangements
- 5 days a week between .
- Fridays will be no earlier than 4pm finish.
- Regular work with technical specialists in support team, face to face meetings and workshops. Occasional meetings in other customer locations, travelling within the working day where possible. T&S will not be provided separately and is expected to be incorporated into the Supplier's day rate.
Security clearance This contract will require that the specialist is DV cleared and a UK national. This is a fundamental and essential requirement of this competition. Due to the time scales involved the specialist must hold DV clearance at time of application.
Essential skills and experience
- Significant experience with design, maintenance and operations of Lync 2010 & Skype for Business 2015
- Significant experience with design, maintenance and operations of Cisco Unified Communications (Desirable: CCIE Collaboration, Cisco Expressway, Cisco Meeting Server)
- Significant experience with Cisco IOS (Desirable: SIP trunks, transcoding, dial/numbering plans)
- Significant experience with Network Boundary Technologies and Session Border Controllers
- Experience with Attendant Consoles and Contact Centre
- Experience with requirements capture
- Experienced Solutions Architect/Enterprise Architect (Desirable: TOGAF)
Nice-to-have skills and experience
- Experience with Windows Server & Windows 10
- Experience with Hyper-V and VMware