Senior IT Systems Engineer

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic individual who is keen to be at the forefront of IT innovation within the NHS. Based out of Bolton Hospital you will be part of a dedicated, hardworking 3rd line team delivering both Technical Support and Projects to the medical services across the Bolton Metropolitan Borough. This will include approximately 7,500 Bolton NHS Foundation Trust employees based both at the hospital and at 25 community sites as well as support for the Bolton GP's and CCG which cover 1,300 staff across 50 sites.

With a wide range of technical infrastructure, it can provide a comprehensive and structured career path and allows you to get exposure to many advanced technologies. It is an exciting time for the Bolton healthcare economy with investment and development of the IT Infrastructure of which this role will be a key part.

Strong IT technical skills, excellent communication, reporting and documentation skills are essential.

The Trust aims are to improve the health of and provide the best possible care to the population in which we serve and ensure that our staff have joy and pride in their work. We are striving to recruit a workforce that reflects the communities in which we serve. We value our staff and can offer excellent opportunities for further training and development. We are keen to reflect our local population and therefore applications from all sectors of the community are welcomed.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

3rd Line Support, Projects and Architecture for Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, Bolton GP’s and CCG with a strong focus on servers.  To provide an efficient technical and systems support function to users of departmental systems.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be lead specialist in at least 4 technical disciplines as defined by the Knowledge Skills Framework Document.

3rd Line Support, Projects and Architecture for Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, Bolton GP’s and CCG with a strong focus on servers.

To maintain and manage an effective, resilient and secure VMWare environment.

Support the effective management and monitoring of the physical and virtual server/desktop environment

Experience Operating in a virtual desktop environment with software defined storage and virtualised applications.

To maintain and manage an effective, resilient and secure Windows 2016 Active Directory Domain infrastructure.

Proactively monitor the Microsoft Active Directory Domain infrastructure and take appropriate action when necessary.

To provide and effective and resilient VMware and associated SAN infrastructure

To provide an effective, resilient and secure corporate messaging infrastructure (Exchange 2016/365).

To provide an effective, resilient, secure thin and thick desktop client infrastructure.

To provide an effective and secure pro-active anti-virus domain for all servers, desktop and groupware.

To provide an effective, secure server and desktop support service (physical and virtual).

To provide an effective, secure, disaster recovery plan for the Local Area Network, Servers and Firewall infrastructure.

To design, implement and manage IT projects.

Assist training other members of IT Staff

When appropriate, participate in an out of hours on call rota for the provision of support to all Users.

To undertake other assignments in accordance with the priorities agreed by the CTO.