AVP/DVP - Networking & Security

Job Purpose

- The position requires a broad technical background along with strong interpersonal skills and problem solving abilities as it includes a wide range of challenges in assisting with day-to-day people and financial management, technical issues and project related tasks.

Key Responsibilities

Managerial Responsibilities

- Provides leadership for the Network & Security team, identifying work priorities and ensuring effective communication within the team and with external partners/stakeholders

Functional Responsibilities

- Is customer service minded and develops and maintains cordial, effective partnerships with business area and other Information Services employee-partners

- Ensures that industry best practices are followed for the delivery, implementation and maintenance of network systems by employee-partners and contractors

- Use critical thinking and project management discipline, tools and techniques in the day to day execution of responsibilities and in resource and workload planning

- Develop a common understanding of service level expectations with the business areas and regularly review the business areas- measures and impressions of service level delivery; work collaboratively to develop solutions to bridge the gaps

- Lead the Network & Security team

- Clarify performance expectations and help team members achieve success through coaching, mentoring and providing effective and timely feedback, recognizing accomplishments and providing discipline when appropriate

Functional Responsibilities

- Ability to handle suppliers and commercial negotiations.

- Well-developed communication skills, with the ability to understand, make recommendations on, and convey technical issues and solutions to a range of stakeholders, both internal and externa

- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.

Qualifications Engineering Graduate, Post-graduate

Experience 13-15 years

Functional Competencies

- Highly developed specialist technical knowledge within the data and voice networking sphere.

- Extensive, hands-on experience of the design; implementation and support of data and voice networks.

Technical Competencies

- Low Latency Networking

- Excellent understanding of LAN/WAN/WLAN, voice and data network topologies

- Network security infrastructure including firewalls, IDS/IPS, NAC etc.

- Certifications: Security+, CCNP, CCNA, Network+

Behavioral Competencies

- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.

- Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop