Technical Specialist - Network Services - Cloud
| Posting date: | 27 May 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 June 2025 |
| Location: | leicestershire, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5246 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Leicester Road, Glenfield, Leicestershire, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £34,350 - £37,950 per annum (Pro rata for part time)
Working Hours: Full-Time, 37 Hours Per Week (with occasional out of hours working)
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 16th June 2025
Interview Date(s): July / August 2025
This is a rare & exciting opportunity for an IT professional to come and join our IT tech team. The post holders will work within a tech “family” who have a wealth of skills and knowledge in a wide and varied technical landscape that helps deliver the council’s core service to the citizens of Leicestershire – the inhouse team look after everything from security, networking, desktop design, configuration & deployment through to on-prem/cloud infrastructure solutions.
About the Role
We are looking for talented forward-thinking individual to help shape and strengthen LCC IT systems and services, as we continue our IT maturity journey. This role will be within Network Services, primarily focused on Cloud and Identity technologies along with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Leicestershire County Council are aligned to the Microsoft cloud architecture and consume Office 365 and Azure services and these will form a key element of the role. Another aspect of the role will be PowerShell scripting for all areas of IT
About you
To apply for this role you should:
- Have a sound technical background and be willing to learn and keep on top of new innovations in technology, particularly within this space.
- Know how to communicate with service users both internally and externally as well as key suppliers and partners.
- Work independently performing day to day tasks in a manor to ensure continuity and quality of service.
- Work as part of a team and be able to take instruction and guidance from senior colleagues.
- Take on new challenges and work within a high-performance team to deliver high quality outcomes.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Andrew Baxter, Team Leader, Network Services
Tel: 0116 305 7112
Email: andrew.baxter@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on 'Apply Now'. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
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.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.
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