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IT - Network and Infrastructure Engineer
Canterbury City Council · Canterbury, ENG, United Kingdom
Canterbury, ENG, United KingdomFull time43,832-49,201 GBP/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
Annual cost-of-living pay award; local government pension scheme; annual leave, training and development, professional membership fee cover where needed, employee discounts, commuting schemes, counselling and wellbeing support, and contributions towards flu jabs.
Location
Canterbury, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Design, operate, and maintain network and infrastructure services supporting digital platforms, while helping modernise infrastructure and migrate services to the cloud. The role builds and maintains cloud, networking, identity, endpoint, and core platform components; delivers upgrades and migrations; monitors service health and resilience; and supports backup and disaster recovery. The environment includes Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, virtualisation, identity services, and SaaS integration.
Benefits
Annual cost-of-living pay awardLocal government pension scheme23 days of annual leave, increasing with service, plus bank holidays and three aOption to buy additional annual leaveTraining and developmentProfessional body membership fee cover where needed for the roleRetailer and lifestyle discountsPark and Ride access, flexi bus tickets, and cycle-to-work schemeEmployee assistance programme with counselling, advice, and webinarsContributions towards flu jabs
Qualifications
- Practical knowledge of modern infrastructure and networking technologies, including cloud platforms, virtualisation, networking, and identity services.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 in enterprise environments.
- Understanding of cloud and software-defined networking, connectivity, segmentation, and access control.
- Knowledge of identity, authentication, and access controls in infrastructure design.
- Understanding of infrastructure security, secure configuration, monitoring, and resilience.
- Experience supporting infrastructure changes, including upgrades, migrations, and platform transitions.
- Experience with structured change, incident, and problem management processes.
- Degree-level education in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent practical experience in a network or infrastructure engineering environment.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, operate, and maintain network and infrastructure services.
- Contribute to infrastructure modernisation, including cloud-hosted platforms, identity-led access models, and SaaS integration.
- Build, configure, and maintain cloud, networking, identity, endpoint, and core platform components.
- Operate infrastructure services in line with standards, security controls, and architectural direction.
- Deliver infrastructure and platform changes, including upgrades, migrations, improvements, and legacy service decommissioning.
- Monitor infrastructure health, performance, availability, and resilience; resolve issues and prevent recurrence.
- Support disaster recovery, backup, and resilience arrangements, including documentation, testing, and continuous improvement.
Skills
Azure
Degrees
Degree-level education in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent practica
Work schedule
Monday to Friday, excluding bank holidays37 hours per weekOccasional out-of-hours work for maintenance or upgrades
Industry
Local government
Relocation
No