Job summary
- Main area
- Digital
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-JH-EMF16423-B7-A
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey Hosptial
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £45,753 - £52,067 per annum - includes high cost area supplements (HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior IT Server Engineer
Band 7
Job overview
The Royal Surrey County NHS Foundation Trust and are seeking to recruit an experienced Senior IT Server Engineer.
The role calls for someone to be a highly specialist resource within IT and as such will have, or will develop, technical or specialist excellence across the range of technologies and services that fall under the responsibility of the infrastructure team.
The role will often have opportunities to work on project work and the adoption of new technologies in line with business requirements. The role will often have opportunities to work on project work and the adoption of new technologies in line with business requirements.
Main duties of the job
The Senior IT Server Engineer supports the IT Infrastructure Operations Manager who is responsible for the administration and optimisation of the organisation’s IT data centre, network, client devices and associated components to achieve high performance and availability of a range of business applications. The Senior IT Server Engineers are responsible for ensuring the availability of selected client/server applications, networks, firewalls, and client devices, configuring all new implementations and developing processes and procedures for the ongoing management of the technology estate.
The IT team currently operates core-hours between 8.00am to 5.00pm, Monday to Friday, and the successful candidate will have a flexible attitude to be able to adjust to the operational needs of the department as and when required.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Maintain selected infrastructure services to a high performance, quality and integrity aligned to Trust requirements
• Participate in an aggressive change programme across the infrastructure portfolio delivering the adoption of services in to production spending approx. 40% of time on project activity.
• Deliver services through a focus on proactive monitoring and methodical troubleshooting to resolve issues in line with business demands and requirements.
• Bring a broad technical understanding and specialism supporting the wider IT function
The Senior IT Server Engineer supports the IT Infrastructure Operations Manager who is responsible for the administration and optimisation of the organisation’s IT data centre, network, client devices and associated components to achieve high performance and availability of a range of business applications. The Senior IT Server Engineers are responsible for ensuring the availability of selected client/server applications, networks, firewalls, and client devices, configuring all new implementations and developing processes and procedures for the ongoing management of the technology estate.
The role calls for someone to be a highly specialist resource within IT and as such will have, or will develop, technical or specialist excellence across the range of technologies and services that fall under the responsibility of the infrastructure team.
The role will often have opportunities to work on project work and the adoption of new technologies in line with business requirements.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree level education, equivalent professional qualifications (e.g. CCNA, MCSE, MCP) or relevant experience at operating at this level
- Additional specialist knowledge acquired through post grad diploma or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Further Professional management certification (e.g. Citrix Professional, VMWare VCP, Extreme Networks, Checkpoint)
- ITIL or equivalent
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in an environment supporting 2000+ users and 2000+ devices across both wired and wireless networks
- Supporting an environment with a data centre of circa 200+ Virtual servers and 30+ Physical
- Responsibility for the delivery of a key service within a technical environment
- Management and development of proactive infrastructure monitoring and reporting solutions
- Experience of highly complex technical and corporate IT Infrastructure in either/and networking, data centre, client devices or telephony
- Experience holding senior technical roles, preferably in large scale highly complex IT environments
- Experience with change control Process
Desirable criteria
- Experience of implementation of policies and procedures
- NHS Acute Hospital IT Experience
- Experience working within infrastructure optimisation Models i.e. NHS NIMM, MS IO
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Antony Joseph
- Job title
- Appointing Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
If you would like to talk to somebody about this vacancy then please contact: Antony Joseph, Head of Digital Infrastructure and Cyber Security
Email: [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Royal Surrey Foundation Trust
- Telephone
- 01483 571122 Ext 2478
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