Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Server)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 18/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Server) within the Trust's IT Infrastructure Team. The post holder will maintain the service capability of the Trust's IT infrastructure, focusing on data centres, high availability, hypervisors, cloud and on-premise environments, servers, domain controllers, and backups. It requires strong technical skills and professionalism to resolve complex IT issues efficiently. The engineer will also contribute to disaster recovery planning and research new technologies.
Key responsibilities
- Support the IT Infrastructure Manager in delivering IT services to published service level agreements.
- Investigate technically complex IT issues (incidents) raised to the Service Desk and escalated by second/third line support.
- Head up the investigation, resolution, and documentation of root causes of IT problems, including severity level 1 incidents.
- Support the IT Infrastructure Manager with the development and annual review of IT disaster recovery plans.
- Take part in the research and development of all elements of the IT Infrastructure, determining beneficial future technology.
- Develop processes and procedures to ensure the IT infrastructure is proactively and robustly maintained.
Essential criteria
- Computer or related science degree
- Specific technical courses (e.g. Cloud, Server and/or infrastructure)
- Cyber Security Credentials (such as CSSP or CSMP etc.)
- A-Level, diploma or apprenticeship level IT qualifications
- IT standards and system management methodologies.
- Domain, AD, Group Policy Management.
- Backup, Restore, DR, HA and Resiliency.
- Hypervisors, Storage, HCI and Capacity Management,
- Knowledge and understanding of key protocols
- 5 years experience in a enterprise level support role
- Analysis of data to identify problem areas and implement solutions
- Proven experience of disaster recovery concepts & testing
- Knowledge of hypervisor and server management at scale
- Cyber security experience
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Server)
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Server)
Division: Corporate
Band: 6
Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 Per Annum/Pro Rata
We are recruiting for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Server) who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
The successful post holder will be expected to represent IT Services to the majority of the Trust's IT users, and as such the post-holder will require good technical skills, and the professionalism and initiative to resolve problems as efficiently as possible.
As an**** IT Senior Server Engineer you will be part of the Trust's IT Infrastructure Team, maintaining the service capability of the Trust's IT infrastructure, specifically in the area of data centre's, high availability & resiliency, hypervisors, cloud and on premise environments, physical & virtual servers, domain controllers and backups etc.
Our values are B old, E very Person Counts, S haring and Open and T ogether. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our valu
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