Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join an established ICT Technical Services Team that serves University Hospitals Birmingham. We are looking for you to use your existing skills, knowledge & extensive enterprise experience to maintain an exemplary IT infrastructure. You will have a focus and responsibility on our developing our emerging cloud presence to provide a robust application environment and a first-class user experience.
In return, we provide an outstanding benefits package incorporating salary, training, leave & pension with an emphasis on health & well-being.
Main duties of the job
* Provide effective specialist IT technical knowledge and experience to maintain and enhance the availability and capacity of the IT cloud infrastructure utilised by the Trust which encompasses clinical and non-clinical supporting systems.
* Take direct responsibility, as product champion for research, planning, implementation, configuration, documentation, and training delivery of collaboration solutions within specified time scales and budgetary constraints.
* Take responsibility, as technical project lead, for the planning and delivery of any technical components of medium to large scale projects.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *IT or Technology degree or equivalent
- *Additional specialist knowledge and or IT industry qualification (e.g., Microsoft or IT specialist certification) acquired whilst employed in an IT role at a large organisation.
Desirable
- *ITIL Foundation or Practitioner
- *Recognised qualifications as a Cloud Specialist and/or equivalent certification
- oMicrosoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate.
- *CompTIA Security +
- *CISSP
Experience
Essential
- *Advanced experience as a cloud engineer/consultant gained while working in a complex enterprise environment.
- *Demonstrable experience in an IT role at third line tier within a complex enterprise environment.
- *Demonstrable experience administrating Microsoft Directory Services, including AD, DNS, IIS, NTFS, DFS and RBAC within a complex enterprise environment.
- *Experience of cloud networking and security, particularly Azure ExpressRoute, virtual WAN and Azure Firewall.
- *An understanding of Cybersecurity readiness, response, and recovery, including:
- oISO/IEC 27001
- oCyber Essentials
Desirable
- *Experience of introducing new technology to facilitate productivity.
- *Experience of Team leadership and staff management.
- *Experience of working with a large healthcare or public sector organisation.
- *Understanding of DSPT requirements
- *Working knowledge of other cloud providers e.g., AWS, Google.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Cloud storage design, deployment, and administration skills e.g., AzureFiles, S3, etc.
- *Enterprise cloud infrastructure monitoring, administration, and remediation skills.
- *Cloud security, configuration, administration, and remediation skills, e.g., Microsoft Sentinel, Windows Defender, ATP, etc.
- *Implementation and administration of cloud VDI solutions, particularly Windows 365.
- *Enterprise cloud backup solution design, deployment, administration, and support skills.
- *Advanced identity management design, administration, and support skills, namely Microsoft Entra (AzureAD).
- *Microsoft 365 configuration, deployment, administration, and support skills.
- *End-point management including MDM, e.g., Microsoft Intune, SCCM, etc.
- *Enterprise cloud communication and collaboration administration and support skills, i.e., Exchange Online, Teams, and SharePoint.
- *Basic scripting skills using PowerShell, Terraform, or similar.
- *Able to work and travel across all sites as required by the job role.
- *Be willing to work outside of normal contracted hours to meet the needs of key milestones.
Desirable
- *Training and supporting colleagues to develop competencies within the team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *IT or Technology degree or equivalent
- *Additional specialist knowledge and or IT industry qualification (e.g., Microsoft or IT specialist certification) acquired whilst employed in an IT role at a large organisation.
Desirable
- *ITIL Foundation or Practitioner
- *Recognised qualifications as a Cloud Specialist and/or equivalent certification
- oMicrosoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate.
- *CompTIA Security +
- *CISSP
Experience
Essential
- *Advanced experience as a cloud engineer/consultant gained while working in a complex enterprise environment.
- *Demonstrable experience in an IT role at third line tier within a complex enterprise environment.
- *Demonstrable experience administrating Microsoft Directory Services, including AD, DNS, IIS, NTFS, DFS and RBAC within a complex enterprise environment.
- *Experience of cloud networking and security, particularly Azure ExpressRoute, virtual WAN and Azure Firewall.
- *An understanding of Cybersecurity readiness, response, and recovery, including:
- oISO/IEC 27001
- oCyber Essentials
Desirable
- *Experience of introducing new technology to facilitate productivity.
- *Experience of Team leadership and staff management.
- *Experience of working with a large healthcare or public sector organisation.
- *Understanding of DSPT requirements
- *Working knowledge of other cloud providers e.g., AWS, Google.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Cloud storage design, deployment, and administration skills e.g., AzureFiles, S3, etc.
- *Enterprise cloud infrastructure monitoring, administration, and remediation skills.
- *Cloud security, configuration, administration, and remediation skills, e.g., Microsoft Sentinel, Windows Defender, ATP, etc.
- *Implementation and administration of cloud VDI solutions, particularly Windows 365.
- *Enterprise cloud backup solution design, deployment, administration, and support skills.
- *Advanced identity management design, administration, and support skills, namely Microsoft Entra (AzureAD).
- *Microsoft 365 configuration, deployment, administration, and support skills.
- *End-point management including MDM, e.g., Microsoft Intune, SCCM, etc.
- *Enterprise cloud communication and collaboration administration and support skills, i.e., Exchange Online, Teams, and SharePoint.
- *Basic scripting skills using PowerShell, Terraform, or similar.
- *Able to work and travel across all sites as required by the job role.
- *Be willing to work outside of normal contracted hours to meet the needs of key milestones.
Desirable
- *Training and supporting colleagues to develop competencies within the team.
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.
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.
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).
