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SalaryICT are looking to recruit a Principal ICT Officer to join the Enterprise Infrastructure team at Maritime Buildings in Hull.
As a Principal ICT officer, you will work in a dedicated ICT Infrastructure team, responsible for operating, supporting and managing all Server and database infrastructure either on premise or in the cloud.
The successful applicant will need to have the following knowledge, skills, and experience:
- Microsoft Active Directory Services both traditional on-premises and hybrid Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft 365
- Physical and Virtual Servers running a mixture of operating systems such as Windows Server, Linux, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware in azure(or other cloud hosted provider) and on premise.
- Backup technologies and methodologies.
- Support, maintenance, backups, and restores along with host configuration, operating system upgrades and patching to deliver a resilient, secure, robust, and performant infrastructure.
- Supporting the monitoring and reporting of any suspect threat activity, undertaking scans and taking the necessary actions to mitigate or remediate the risk proactively
- Supporting asset and configuration management, completing audit of hardware and software configurations against recommended good practice, managing, and recording exemptions and exceptions
- Keeping up to date with enterprise technology trends, security trends, and control measures
- Contributing, as necessary in the event of a Major ICT Incident, Disaster Recovery or Cyber Incident
- Providing an Enterprise custodian role for Infrastructure systems, ensuring best practices and procedures are adhered to across all systems and applications
- Updating and maintaining documented procedures used by colleagues to ensure best practice and efficiency
- The Council currently uses Dell/EMC NetWorker & Avamar, on-premises Microsoft Azure Backup and native Azure Backup
- Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft 365
- Experience of Linux based operating systems.
- Experience of updating server images, plug-ins
- Contributing to business cases around key tasks, financial impact and experience of solution design.
This position has an element of call out to provide remote or onsite support outside of normal working hours to ensure system uptime is in line with agreed Service Level Agreements. Currently this equates to one week in seven for which an appropriate additional allowance is paid when on-call including additional allowance if called out.
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Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight on the closing date.
We are committed to increasing the diversity, equity, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required.
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Any offer of employment to the above post will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory Basic Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service.
Hull City Council embraces the principles of WorkSmart and this post has been identified as a suitable role. WorkSmart principles create opportunities facilitating a combination of working in the office, adhoc homeworking, or working from various locations, therefore being flexible about where/ how you carry out your role, the specific opportunities available will be discussed at interview.
