Network Security Engineer

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Job Reference Ref/41514/9423

Apply for this job Number of Positions: 1 Contract Type: Full Time Contract Details: This is a full time permanent role Salary Range : £39481.00 - £42123.00 Working Hours: 37 hours per week, 9am - 5pm, Monday - Friday Location: Kettering Closing Date: 19/10/2026 Job Category: IT Organisation: North Northamptonshire Council

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

 

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

The North Northamptonshire Council technology team deliver technology services to over 3,000 colleagues and in partnership with our transformation colleagues we are on a path to deliver our digital transformation strategy.

We are working to deliver multiple projects focused on migrating our traditional on-premise services into the Microsoft 365 environment as well as unifying our core network infrastructure across our entire estate (65+ different locations). Our goal is to deliver a single colleague user experience, regardless of if they are working in one of our offices, at home, or delivering essential services in the community.

As we move into the next critical phase of these projects, we are now looking for a Network Security Engineer to play a pivotal part in this journey.

What will you be doing?

North Northamptonshire Council are in the process of delivering their technology strategy and digital transformation, and this involves a complete overhaul of our IT infrastructure and supporting network estate. 

This role will play a key part in both the project delivery of new network services (both LAN and WAN) across the estate, and in the ongoing support and security of these services as the organisation evolves in future years.

This role will work closely with both the infrastructure and cyber security leads, with the focus on the day-day support and monitoring of the network and security services.

The key focus of this role is to:

• Play a leading role in the day-to-day monitoring and support of the North Northants Council network and cyber security services. This involves both on-site and remote support across the North Northants Council estate.
• Contribute to any planning and/or documentation required to improve and maintain resiliency and security for the North Northants Council network and cyber security services. Make proposals for changes and work with the wider teams to implement such changes as they are agreed.
• Act as an escalation point for any network, cyber security and infrastructure related support incidents.
• Co-ordinate reporting of any cyber security or network-based incidents to relevant teams and managers. This will include point in time escalation of critical incidents, as well as regular status reports which can be used for developing the service and evidencing due diligence to internal and external auditors.
• Support the regular delivery and follow up remediation activity, of penetration tests and assessments for security certifications (s