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NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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Job summary

NICE requires an IT Infrastructure Specialist to join the IT Infrastructure team that is responsible for managing the high availability of the NICE IT infrastructure and associated operational services in line with the agreed Service Level Targets.

The IT Infrastructure Specialist will be working alongside the infrastructure engineers supporting the existing infrastructure, optimising the existing solutions and processes.

Contract type: This is a fixed term contract up to 31st March 2024. A fixed term contract is required to support with short term resource capacity needs, including supporting the streamlining of services and key transformation projects.

Main duties of the job

As the Senior infrastructure engineer you will work with infrastructure services that underpin all NICE internal user services and services to the public. Working in a team of infrastructure specialists and engineers, you will build, administer, support, and maintains solutions as directed and according to directorate policy. You will work with third party provision of infrastructure services and the provide expertise to develop architectural solutions for infrastructure services throughout the service product life cycle.

Our core Infrastructure primarily covers Office365, Active Directory, on premise Servers (Windows & Linux), Virtualisation (VMware and Azure) and data storage. You will be a subject matter expert in Office365, Exchange online and all aspects of messaging and collaboration. The role is responsible for ensuring services are highly available and configured according to industry best practices. It also extends to provisioning and building new infrastructure as part of both new technology initiatives and refreshes.

Full details of responsibilities can be found in the Job Description.

Work will be a mix of remote working and office based working from NICE's Manchester office. NICE staff are all working predominantly remotely but with presence in the office as required. Our expectation for this role would be 1 day a week in the office but it will depend on the requirements of the work and team.

About us

The Digital, Information and Technology (DIT) directorate is a 70 strong team of digital, information and technology professionals.

The teams in DIT design, develop and maintain NICE's suite of externally facing digital services including the NICE's website, Pathways, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, BNF and Evidence Search which together attract more than 2 million users a month.

The Infrastructure team work to support DIT's portfolio of work; ensuring services are running smoothly and supporting transformation projects. The team consists of 3 engineers supported by a Head of Infrastructure.

Benefits:

  • We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme and staff discounts
  • We provide a thorough induction programme
  • Personal development is supported through extensive training and development opportunities
  • We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance
  • We value equality and diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the community
  • We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with the NHS Guaranteed Interview Scheme

If you feel this is the type of environment, you will enjoy working in then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.

Details

Date posted

01 September 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

6 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

907-483

Job locations

Manchester

Level 1a City Tower

Manchester

M1 4BT


Job description

Job responsibilities

To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrateall essential criteriathrough the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.

Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrateall essential criteriathrough the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.

Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Relevant qualification: degree in a computer science field or equivalent level of knowledge gained through experience and further training/development.
  • Fortinet Qualification or extensive experience

Experience

Essential

  • Significant expertise and knowledge of Active Directory and associated services (ADFS, DHCP, DNS, Group policy, WSUS, LDAP)
  • Strong expertise and knowledge of Windows Server 2012 / 2016 / 2019.

Desirable

  • Experience of working within a similar complex environment within the Health and Social Care sector.

Skills/knowledge

Essential

  • In-depth of working knowledge of SMTP routing, Active Directory/LDAP, DNS, Mail Routing, Exchange and SMTP Troubleshooting and Patch Management
  • In-depth working knowledge of Microsoft platforms with a focus on Intune, Active Directory and Windows networking up to enterprise class.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Relevant qualification: degree in a computer science field or equivalent level of knowledge gained through experience and further training/development.
  • Fortinet Qualification or extensive experience

Experience

Essential

  • Significant expertise and knowledge of Active Directory and associated services (ADFS, DHCP, DNS, Group policy, WSUS, LDAP)
  • Strong expertise and knowledge of Windows Server 2012 / 2016 / 2019.

Desirable

  • Experience of working within a similar complex environment within the Health and Social Care sector.

Skills/knowledge

Essential

  • In-depth of working knowledge of SMTP routing, Active Directory/LDAP, DNS, Mail Routing, Exchange and SMTP Troubleshooting and Patch Management
  • In-depth working knowledge of Microsoft platforms with a focus on Intune, Active Directory and Windows networking up to enterprise class.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Address

Manchester

Level 1a City Tower

Manchester

M1 4BT


Employer's website

https://www.nice.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Address

Manchester

Level 1a City Tower

Manchester

M1 4BT


Employer's website

https://www.nice.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Infrastructure

Jason Corfield

Jason.corfield@nice.org.uk

Details

Date posted

01 September 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

6 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

907-483

Job locations

Manchester

Level 1a City Tower

Manchester

M1 4BT


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