Lead Information Systems Officer

Location: Sheffield

Salary: 54,143 - 58,557 per year

Employment: Full time

Category: Network Engineer

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Employer: Sheffield City Council

Join the Team Shaping Sheffield’s Digital Future

ICT & Digital Innovation – Infrastructure & Networks

Be part of the transformation. Deliver change that matters.

At Sheffield City Council , we're delivering one of the most ambitious digital transformation agendas in local government. We're looking for talented, motivated, and forward-thinking professionals to join our ICT & Digital Innovation Infrastructure and Network Team and help shape the future of services used by hundreds of thousands of people across Sheffield.

Whether it's redesigning services, introducing innovative technology, improving customer experiences, enabling smarter ways of working, or delivering major digital transformation programmes, you'll be at the heart of meaningful change that makes a real difference to our city.

Why Join Us?

Make an Impact Every Day

This isn't technology for technology's sake.

Our team delivers Digital and IT change that directly improves services for residents, communities, and council staff. From digital self-service and automation to data-driven decision-making and major business transformation programmes, your work will help create more efficient, modern, and responsive public services.

Desired Skills for the role -

• Extensive experience of support and implementation of Cisco Multi Context Firewall solutions ASDM/FMC/FTD
• Extensive experience of support and implementation of Cisco Wireless LAN Solution Corporate and Maraki
• Extensive experience of support and implementation of Cisco DNAC Management and Reporting tools
• Extensive experience of support and implementation of a Multi VRF Environment
• Extensive experience of support and implementation of Well known Routing protocols For both LAN and WAN
• Extensive experience of P2P VPN's
• Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience of working in an Enterprise ICT environment following ITIL best practice.

Desired Skills and experience

• Azure Networking support and design
• Experience of Forcepoint Firewalls
• Experience of IP management
• Experience of support of Citrix ADC load balancer

Please note there will be a telephone technical interview as part of the application process before a face to face interview in our offices.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Read about the new job evaluation process to be introduced at Sheffield City Council.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.