Working as part of the Schools ICT service at St Helens Borough Council, you will be a hands-on Infrastructure Lead, who is a team player and is able to lead and support others. You will directly manage one other senior infrastructure engineer.
This is primarily a technical role, but you will be responsible for contributing to the delivery of the Schools IT strategy and the review of new technologies understanding how they support the roadmap to enhance the IT services for schools.
There is a drive to review and transition services to cloud or hosted environments with a real emphasis placed on the use of Microsoft 365 to replace many of the current services in play currently.
This is an exciting opportunity for you to make a real difference to the changing needs of IT and Digital services across schools and you will get exposure to many technological areas to further develop your skillsets and add to your existing infrastructure experience.
Technologies you will work with
Windows Server, Azure AD and on-prem AD services, Solarwinds, Fortigate Firewalls, Office 365 and other Microsoft 365 products, Aruba WLAN, VMware and Vcentre, Hyper-V, SAN technologies including Equal-logic. LAN and VPN network support and management. RDS, Veeam.
We are committed to matching your ambitions and will support this by providing you with the relevant training and affording you time to review new technologies and initiatives that can enhance the service.
The attached job description and person specification outlines the role in more detail.
The post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 NOLAN principles of conduct in public life. These include selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.
We welcome applications from the BAME community.
For any further information about this post, please contact Mark Byrom on 07766245513.
