Server And Storage Engineer

Salary: Career Graded 7-9, £30,117 – £45,546
Location: Agile, Ponteland Police Station and homeworking
Hours/Contract: 37 hrs per week, permanent
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Digital Policing Department as a Server and Storage Engineer.
Working alongside multi-disciplined teams and colleagues within Digital Policing, the Server and Storage Engineer participates in the delivery of a performant, cost effective and appropriately resilient Server and Storage environment, that meets the agreed service level for critical business functions.
What you’ll do
- Install, upgrade, configure and document new Server, Storage and Backup systems as planned and to the correct standards.
- Provide 2nd/3rd Line support of Server, Storage and Backup services, liaising with internal and external groups, manufacturers and suppliers as required to maintain system functionality, reliability and availability.
- Participate in evaluating opportunities for greater efficiency and optimisation within Server, Storage and Backup infrastructure to drive down costs of these services.
- Identify potential problems and trends within Server, Storage and Backup environments and implement proactive strategies to reduce service affecting issues.
- Provide Root Cause analysis of service affecting issues to prevent repeat occurrences.
Sound interesting? For further information, and to support your application, please view the job description
What you’ll bring
- Substantial experience in a similar role supporting Enterprise level Server and Storage Infrastructures.
- Strong working knowledge of Windows Server 2012/2016 and Storage Array support and configuration (ideally Nimble/Cohesity).
- Strong Experience of Planning and Upgrading Server and Storage Hardware within a Datacentre environment.
- Ideally you will have a practicable working knowledge of administering, configuring and troubleshooting RHEL/SUSE.
- Ideally you will have a strong working knowledge of VMWare (ESX, VCenter, VDI), however training will be provided if required.
We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Server and Storage Engineer with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face to face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly. If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV) and Security Clearance (SC) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance and medical information.
Terms of appointment
This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a 6month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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