Senior Engineer

Instagram; Burnhope; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

27 days annual leave

Local Government Pension Scheme

Job summary

The Council is seeking a Senior Engineer to help manage and secure its endpoint estate, ensuring colleagues have reliable devices and applications. You will implement security controls, support centralised management, and drive automation across deployments.

You will work across change and service-transition activities, resolve complex issues, and communicate clearly with staff, suppliers and stakeholders. Hybrid working is available.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in computing or related discipline, with experience in centralised device management and deployment tools.
• Strong background in endpoint security and management of modern endpoint environments with security controls.

Responsibilities

• Support security and compliance of the Council's endpoint estate with technical controls.
• Manage endpoint estate using centralised device-management technologies.
• Develop and improve automated processes for packaging apps and OS provisioning.
• Contribute to change, release and service-transition activities with risk monitoring.
• Investigate complex issues and provide guidance to customers and ICT colleagues.

Skills

Endpoint security

Communication

Education

Degree in computing or related discipline

Tools

Centralised device management systems

Automated deployment tools

OS deployment tools

Job description

A vacancy has arisen within Digital Services, Infrastructure and Support for an experienced, enthusiastic and flexible Senior Engineer. This is an exciting opportunity to help manage, secure and modernise the Council's endpoint estate, ensuring that colleagues have access to reliable, secure and effectively managed devices and applications.,

• Support the security and compliance of the Council's endpoint estate, helping to implement, maintain and improve technical controls that protect Council devices and data.
• Support and manage the Council's endpoint estate using modern, centralised device-management technologies.
• Develop, maintain and improve automated processes for application packaging and deployment, operating-system provisioning, configuration, patching and updating.
• Contribute to change, release and service-transition activities, monitoring performance, compliance and risks to ensure changes are introduced securely and effectively.
• Investigate and resolve complex technical issues, taking ownership through to resolution and providing clear advice and guidance to customers and ICT colleagues.

You will need a degree or equivalent qualification in computing or a related discipline and/or in-depth experience of working with centralised device management systems and automated application and operating system deployment tools.

You will have a strong technical background in endpoint security and the management of modern endpoint environments, with experience of implementing and maintaining security controls alongside application and operating system deployment, configuration, patching and updating technologies. You will be confident investigating and resolving complex technical issues and able to communicate clearly with colleagues, customers, suppliers and stakeholders.

We offer a competitive rewards package that includes attractive salaries, a generous annual leave entitlement of 27 days (rising to 32 after five years' continuous local government service), membership of the excellent contributory career average Local Government Pension Scheme, and a range of flexible working arrangements including hybrid working (home and office) where applicable. Explore the full range of rewards and benefits on our website.