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Job Title: Senior Network Analyst

Salary Range: £51,540 – £62,451 per annum

Permanent – Fulltime (36 Hours)

Location: Wandsworth and Richmond

If you are an experienced network professional looking to take ownership of a critical enterprise network environment in a forward-thinking organisation, we would love to hear from you.

Richmond and Wandsworth Better Service Partnership is a shared public service organisation supporting Richmond and Wandsworth Councils. It delivers services across areas including social care, children’s services, housing, regeneration, environmental services and community services.

A position exists within the Digital, Data & Technology service for a Senior Network Analyst reporting to the Network & Telecoms Manager. In this role, you will act as the council’s senior technical authority for network services, helping to ensure that enterprise connectivity remains secure, resilient, supportable and fit for organisational need across sites and services.

You will play a leading role in the design, implementation, operation and continuous improvement of the council’s network infrastructure. This includes LAN, WAN, WLAN, firewalls and remote access services, ownership of major incidents end-to-end, support for security and resilience, and technical input into transformation projects, change governance and supplier management.

As well as leading network services, you will be expected to have:

• Significant experience supporting and designing enterprise-scale networks in a complex organisation.
• Strong knowledge of LAN, WAN, WLAN, firewalls, VPNs and network security principles.
• Experience with network monitoring, fault diagnosis and performance optimisation.
• The ability to lead on complex technical issues and major incidents with organisation-wide impact.
• The ability to provide clear technical advice to non-technical stakeholders and governance forums.
• Experience working with third-party suppliers and managed service providers.
• Strong documentation and communication skills.
• An understanding of IT service management and change control processes.
• Experience supporting vulnerability remediation, resilience planning and security improvement.
• Desirable experience includes cloud networking or hybrid environments such as Azure networking, knowledge of zero trust or SASE approaches, and exposure to products such as Zscaler, Aruba, Fortinet, Kemp, SolarWinds and Audicodes.
• Richmond and Wandsworth Councils care more about how you work and what you achieve than where you work on any given day. Flexible working, development opportunities, generous leave and Local Government Pension Scheme benefits.

Indicative Recruitment Timeline

Closing Date: Sunday 02nd August 2026.

Shortlisting Date: W/C 03rd August 2026

Interview Date: TBC

We may close this vacancy early once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment

Useful Information

Richmond & Wandsworth Better Service Partnership are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.