IT Network Manager

IT Network Manager
Heathrow/Stafford/Hybrid (with travel to UK sites)

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: Competitive Salary DOE plus vehicle/vehicle allowance and company bonus 

This is an incredible opportunity to work for a forward-thinking community equipment services provider, who’ll support you to be the best you can be in your chosen field! 

Join us as our new Network and Security Manager at Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd and let us empower you to truly make a difference. 

Our continued employee development programmes, internal training and exceptional leadership will give you the ability to continuously develop yourself professionally whilst providing person-centred support.

You’ll be supported by an excellent team of professional and ever developing co-workers who all identify and align with Medequip’s values.

Who are Medequip? 

Medequip is the leading provider of medical equipment services to local authorities and the NHS across the UK, delivering a wide range of equipment and support to people in their own homes, keeping people independent for longer. 

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced IT Network Manager to take ownership of the design, performance, resilience, and future direction of our network services across Medequip and its group companies (including RossCare and Consolor).

This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a purely BAU position. You’ll shape and deliver a secure, scalable, cloud-first network strategy that supports business growth and digital transformation, working closely with our IT Security Lead to ensure security is embedded by design.

You’ll play a key role in evolving our network architecture (including SD-WAN, Azure networking, VPNs and firewalls), leading infrastructure projects end-to-end, and driving innovation through proof-of-concepts and new technologies.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Own and evolve the Group’s network strategy, architecture, and roadmap
• Lead the design and delivery of resilient, secure network solutions across sites, depots, cloud, and remote users
• Drive the transition to SD-WAN and cloud-integrated connectivity
• Design and manage Azure networking (vNETs, NSGs, firewalls, private endpoints, ExpressRoute)
• Work closely with the IT Security Lead to support a zero-trust, secure-by-design architecture
• Act as the technical lead for network and infrastructure projects, from concept to implementation
• Run proof-of-concepts to evaluate new technologies and vendors
• Own network performance, uptime, monitoring, and incident escalation
• Manage key vendors and service providers
• Maintain strong documentation, standards, and continuous improvement

About you

Above all, you will identify and align with our company values:

• We keep our promises.
• We empower people to be accountable for their actions and performance.
• We help people with empathy, courtesy, dignity and kindness.
• We show respect and are trusted by our colleagues, suppliers and customers.
• We believe in teamwork and are passionate about our work.
• We encourage innovation and the development of technology.
• We embrace change and seek to achieve excellence.
• We deliver cost effective, efficient and safe healthcare solutions.

Qualifications and experience required.

• 5+ years’ experience in enterprise network engineering or architecture
• Strong experience in multi-site, cloud-connected environments
• Hands-on expertise with:
  • Cisco / Meraki switching, routing and wireless
  • SD-WAN technologies
  • Azure networking
  • Firewalls, VPNs, NAT and remote access
• Experience designing and documenting network solutions
• Comfortable working with CLI, PowerShell, and infrastructure-as-code (Bicep / Terraform)
• A proactive, forward-thinking mindset with a passion for improving security, resilience, and performance
• Cisco CCNP / CCIE (Desirable)
• Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700) (Desirable)
• Fortinet NSE (Desirable)
• CompTIA Network+ or Security+ (Desirable)
• ITIL v4 (Desirable)
• ISO 27001 (advantageous, not essential) 

What we offer

• 33 days (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Company Bonus
• Car allowance
• Continued professional development, training and learning support and opportunities for career progression.
• Pension scheme
• Healthcare scheme
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free eye test, provided by Specsavers
• 15% Manage At Home discount
• Care First employee assistance program including free counselling.
• Access to Perkbox discount platform
• Free DBS check 

We welcome applications from all sections of the Community as an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are also happy to make any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process should you need it, please let us know. 

We take our data privacy seriously and commit to processing your data in line with GDPR guidelines. Medequip’s Privacy Notice sets out the basis on which the personal data collected from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed in connection with our recruitment processes.  

This role may be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and satisfactory references.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship. Candidates without satisfactory right to work in the UK are unlikely to be suitable.