Lead Specialist Engineer – Packaging

Civil Service: SEO

Closing 14/03/2023 23:59 – Please apply via link provided. CV's sent via email will not be progressed.

This role will be based at any UKHSA office, including – Birmingham, Bristol, Horsham, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Porton. With travel to other UKHSA sites as required (The role may be relocated to Harlow in due course).

The United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is a system leader for health security; taking action internationally to strengthen global health security, providing trusted advice to government and the public and reducing inequalities in the way different communities experience and are impacted by infectious disease, environmental hazards, and other threats to health.

Job overview

We are looking for Lead Specialist Engineers who will be responsible for supporting the delivery of technical excellence in their field of specialism and assisting the Senior Specialist Engineer in ensuring that all systems are optimally configured to provide a high-quality service to UKHSA users.

The Technology Directorate provides business-critical systems and services to UKHSA business users at all locations at which UKHSA staff work. ICT has primary responsibility for technical infrastructure and the corporate services running upon it. ICT has staff at a number of locations throughout UKHSA.

They may be required to supervise the activity of junior staff, but will mainly be responsible for undertaking the configuration, management and maintenance of all hardware and software components of UKHSA’s network and infrastructure.

The Lead Specialist Engineer will work within the Specialist Communications and End User Services team.

The Lead Specialist Engineer will work with other Lead Specialist Engineers, who between them will lead on the software packaging capability for the organisation. They will have technical specialties and provide technical expertise in application packaging and supporting technologies.

Main duties of the job

* Provide software application packaging services to end users and deliver applications to end users that meet UKHSA deployment strategy and security policies.

* Work in a collaborative manner with other ICT colleagues to deliver tasks successfully.

* Plan, configure, manage and maintain all hardware and software components of specialist area to deliver optimum system availability to users, and ensuring all supplier provided patches and upgrades to the operating system, database, tools and utilities are applied in a timely manner.

* Maintain the security and integrity of all systems related to specialist area including managing all user access rights and implementation of any necessary backup regimes and other disaster recovery procedures.

* Providing technical and administrative support for specialist systems, including the production of system specification documentation and the production of relevant procedures and protocols.

* Monitoring and managing system performance, capacity and growth, providing advice on necessary upgrades and replacement of hardware and software so as to maintain the reliability of the systems. Implement hardware changes and upgrades and database upgrades and migrations to maintain system performance and growth capacity.

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