ICT Technical Specialist - Security and Firewall Technologies
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 02/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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“**Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
As an ICT Technical Specialist, you will safeguard the digital infrastructure of the organisation, ensuring security and firewall services are secure, resilient, and dependable. You will support clinical and corporate services, directly contributing to patient care. Working with senior colleagues and suppliers, you will drive continuous service improvement and deliver customer-focused support. This role involves maintaining system operations, providing technical guidance, and supporting cyber assurance.
Essential criteria
- Understanding of confidentiality, data protection and information security requirements.
- Good knowledge of security and firewall concepts, digital infrastructure operations, Dynamic routing, cyber security good practice, service management and resilience.
- Experience of supporting complex security, firewall, network or infrastructure services in a medium or large organisation.
Desirable criteria
- Experience supporting technology refresh, supplier activity, cyber assurance evidence or service transition.
- Training, Qualifications and Registration
- Degree level education in a relevant digital, technology or cyber security discipline, or equivalent specialist experience.
- Evidence of continued professional development relevant to digital infrastructure or cyber security.
- Relevant vendor or professional qualification, for example firewall, network, Microsoft, cloud, cyber security, ITIL, project management or service management qualification.
- Knowledge and Skills
- Understanding of confidentiality, data protection and information security requirements.
- Good knowledge of security and firewall concepts, digital infrastructure operations, Dynamic routing, cyber security good practice, service management and resilience.
- Experience of supporting complex security, firewall, network or infrastructure services in a medium or large organisation.
- Experience supporting technology refresh, supplier activity, cyber assurance evidence or service transition.
- Training, Qualifications and Registration
- Degree level education in a relevant digital, technology or cyber security discipline, or equivalent specialist experience.
- Evidence of continued professional development relevant to digital infrastructure or cyber security.
- Relevant vendor or professional qualification, for example firewall, network, Microsoft, cloud, cyber security, ITIL, project management or service management qualification.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
ICT Technical Specialist - Security and Firewall Technologies
The closing date is 02 October 2026
Job summary
As an ICT Technical Specialist, you will safeguard the digital backbone of our organisation. Joining the Digital Infrastructure team, you will ensure our security and firewall services remain secure, resilient, and dependable--directly supporting the clinical and corporate services that keep patient care running safely.
Working alongside senior colleagues, project teams, and external suppliers, you will apply your specialist knowledge to drive continuous service improvement, make effective use of Trust and NHS technology, and deliver a responsive, customer-focused service.
Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Main duties of the job
System Security & Operations
- Maintain the day-to-day operation, configuration, rule reviews, patching, access controls, capacity checks, and backup testing for assigned firewall and security systems.
- Manage incident resolution, problem inve
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