ICT Infrastructure and Security Specialist - Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service

• Provide support and monitoring of all DWFRS networks and security, ensuring high levels of continued service across all operational and corporate DWFRS sites •
• Providing design, maintenance and delivery of changes to DWFRS infrastructure and security across the service and its datacentres
• Directly managing small to medium sized projects from scoping, recommending design solutions, procurement, delivery budgets through to handover into business and usual (BAU) with management processes and documentation. Providing key specialist advice and support to large ICT whole team projects. Including managing technicians to achieve project tasks, for example, rolling out of new systems and delivering the BAU tasks

What makes you our ideal ICT Infrastructure and Security Specialist?

• Experience of working with ICT infrastructure, and security design, understanding of both local and nationally mandated compliance.
• Experience of project management, and dealing with multiple tasks at the same time
• Ability to recognises issues and generate solutions to achieve business improvement

For full details of the role and requirements please have a look at the job description and person specification.

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