Azure Platform Engineer: Cloud & Infrastructure Expert

Carrington Blake Recruitment; Linby CP; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottinghamshire County Council is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to join its ICT Platform Team. You will be responsible for maintaining, supporting and improving the council’s IT infrastructure, ensuring systems remain secure, reliable and accessible to staff and service users.

You will work across a large and complex IT environment, supporting servers, operating systems and cloud services while helping resolve incidents, improve IT processes and provide technical guidance to

Qualifications

• Approximately five years’ relevant experience in IT infrastructure, systems support or platform administration.
• Strong experience supporting and administering Windows Server environments.
• Knowledge of Active Directory and Group Policy.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, VMware and Linux environments.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain and support Windows Server, Linux, VMware and Microsoft Azure environments.
• Manage and support core IT systems, including Active Directory, Group Policy, SCCM, file shares, certificates and encrypted email.
• Investigate and resolve technical incidents, problems and infrastructure issues.
• Monitor system performance, availability and security, taking corrective action where required.
• Install, upgrade and maintain IT infrastructure to ensure reliable service delivery.
• Maintain technical documentation, support procedures and incident management processes.
• Support IT changes and ensure compliance with relevant policies, standards and procedures.
• Work collaboratively with internal IT teams, external suppliers and partner organisations.
• Help deliver services in line with agreed service level agreements (SLAs).
• Provide technical advice, mentor junior colleagues and support the development of the wider team.

Skills

Windows Server

Active Directory

Group Policy

Microsoft Azure

VMware

Linux environments

SCCM

ITIL

Incident management

Communication skills

Mentoring

Education

Relevant degree or professional qualification

Tools

VMware

SCCM

Job description

Nottinghamshire County Council is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to join its ICT Platform Team. You will be responsible for maintaining, supporting and improving the council’s IT infrastructure, ensuring systems remain secure, reliable and accessible to staff and service users.

You will work across a large and complex IT environment, supporting servers, operating systems and cloud services while helping resolve incidents, improve IT processes and provide technical guidance to