ICT Senior Systems Engineer

ICT Senior Systems Engineer

£31,537 - £36,154
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You will be the senior member working within a small team of dedicated ICT professionals located across both sites (Wellingborough and Thrapston) reporting to the ICT Business Support Manager. You will be the go to person for escalated 2nd and 3rd line technical support.

You'll identify opportunities for development both technically and for the team and, also, the Service Desk. You'll lead on a number of technical projects aimed at continuing to ensure the ICT infrastructure serves the councils, making both networks more resilient, secure and robust as it continues a move to our remote central datacentre over an MPLS network.

The successful candidate will have a computer science or related subject degree, be a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer or equivalent and be able to demonstrate strong technical experience across the board and especially, but not limited to, Citrix administration and configuration (XenApp, XenDesktop and Receiver) Configuring network switches, routers, WAP, firewalls Network administration in a mixed Microsoft/Unix/ Linux environment Virtualisation (VMWare - moving to Hyper-V)

You will have a proactive attitude with a commitment to providing a quality service. You will need to be highly customer-focused with the ability to deliver support and projects, under an ITIL Framework, in a bustling and busy environment.

Benefits include:

- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Between 24 and 34 days annual leave (dependent on length of service) plus bank holidays
- Flexible working hours
- Free on-site car parking

Training and Qualifications Programme:

Key benefits include investment in your training and skills development, including relevant qualifications. This programme would be open to you 1 month after joining us, in the following areas:

1. Networks
2. Servers and storage
3. Microsoft
4. Service delivery and management
5. Management and interpersonal skills
6. Project management

Flexible and potentially part-time working are also available to suit the requirements of the role.

Closing Date: 29 October 2018
Interview Dates: To be confirmed

Potential changes are on the horizon across Northamptonshire in which the county council and all the district and borough councils would join to create unitary authorities covering populations of over 300,000 each. This transformation could open doors to new and exciting career opportunities for all our employees.