About IT Services

IT Services at the University of Manchester is a vibrant and fast-moving Directorate, with focus on delivering excellent customer service and quality services for our staff, students, and researchers.

The Team

The Virtualisation team, as part of the wider ITS Technology Team, support and administer the University of Manchester key business infrastructure. Using industry standard tooling and technologies, the team provides proactive and timely reactive, via monitoring and reporting, maintenance and support for the platform.

The Role

The Windows Server Engineer is responsible for creation, maintenance, and monitoring of Windows servers. The post holder will diagnose, remediate, and test server-related issues to ensure a stable and secure infrastructure service to the University. They will provide a critical role in providing support for Windows servers, physical and virtual (VMware) as well as any environments that might be hosted in the cloud (Azure, AWS, etc.).

The Person

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate:

• Experience of maintaining a large-scale, multi-site Windows Server environment, physical, virtual and/or in cloud environments.
• Deep understanding of the Windows Server operating system from version 2012 to current offering.
• Ability to test and certify new versions of Windows operating systems to provide better integrations with core business applications
• Experience of integrating server automation processes either by custom scripts or third- party solutions.
• Solid knowledge of LAN/WAN/VLAN, TCP/IP, UDP

Desirable: MCITP, MCSA, MCSE, CompTIA Server+ or equivalent Role Based certification

What you can expect in return

Our diverse job opportunities all include a top benefits package that includes many features that are hard to find in the private sector:

• Generous annual leave allowance, including Christmas/New Year closure;
• Pension scheme membership to provide benefits for you and your family;
• Well-being programme with counselling, fitness and leading sports facilities;
• Learning and development opportunities;
• Season ticket loans for public transport;
• Cycle to Work Scheme;
• Workplace nursery scheme;
• Staff recognition schemes;
• Staff discounts on a range of products and services including travel and high street savings.

In fact, there are so many benefits available you can see more of them by clicking HERE

Find out more about our organisation and values:

• IT Services: About us and ITS Practice Charter

When completing the additional information section of your application, please ensure you make reference to the job description and person specification above, as this will form an integral part of the shortlisting process.

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status.  All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk. Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: IT Resource Management Team

Email: it.resource@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.