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Contract terms

Starting salary: PO3 (£44,331 – £47,532)
Work location: Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, Wood Green, London, N22 7TR
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: Sunday, 16th March 2025 at 23:59
Interview dates: w/C 247th March 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

We are searching for a passionate and experienced Site Services and Network Engineer to join our Digital and Change Directorate at Haringey Council. As a key member of a multidisciplinary team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the seamless operation of our site services and network infrastructure. You will be responsible for maintaining the highest standards of performance, security, and scalability, ensuring exceptional user experiences for our residents and staff.

About the team

You will be joining a forward-thinking Digital and Change Directorate that is dedicated to driving digital transformation across Haringey Council. Our team is committed to developing robust, scalable, and maintainable solutions that align with the Digital Service Standard and organisational goals. We work collaboratively, facilitating meetings, workshops, and sessions with stakeholders throughout development and testing phases to ensure alignment and clear communication of progress and requirements. Our team places a strong emphasis on innovation, continuous improvement, and the adoption of modern development tools and methodologies. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with internal digital teams and external partners, contributing to initiatives that achieve the Council’s corporate objectives and meet the needs of our citizens and businesses.

About you

You are a highly skilled network engineer with strong expertise in site services and network infrastructure. You possess demonstrable knowledge of best practices in network design, implementation, and maintenance. Your technical expertise includes working with third-party data sources/APIs, SSO with M365, SharePoint document integration, and site search tools. You are proficient in applying structured and documented methodologies to facilitate the transparent and efficient development of complex applications. Your role will involve leading the design and development of large and complex programs, overseeing the creation and amendment of programs, and ensuring consistency, scalability, and adherence to best practices in network engineering. You will also develop and execute comprehensive testing strategies, review and approve specifications, and ensure comprehensive documentation of all work. As a technical leader, you will mentor and guide colleagues, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the team. If you are ready to make a significant impact and help shape the digital future of Haringey Council, we would love to hear from you.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders. Please continue to check these through the application process. If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk