Senior Engineer - Data Centre

• This role offers hybrid working, allowing you to work either from home or from one of our offices, with a minimum of 1 day a week in County Hall
• Ad hoc site visits around the county
• 30 Days annual leave (Plus Bank Holiday)
• Role is full time (37 hours) Permanent.
• Take on a Senior role within a small team

We’re working to improve the lives of people in Somerset – and you’ll be a key part of that. Your day-to-day work will involve:

• Working with different backup technologies and data centre components
• Carry out daily maintenance checks on a rota basis
• Perform maintenance and upgrades
• Manual handling
• Travelling to different sites around the county
• Review and rationalise existing Disaster Recovery documentation by re-writing into clear, structured, and legible step-by-step processes to support operational readiness and recovery procedures
• Lead on projects required by DC and DR

We offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be. But it will really help if you:

• Proven experience operating within a data centre or critical infrastructure environment, with an understanding of monitoring, uptime, resilience, and security.
• Can deal with changing and competing deadlines and priorities.
• Strong problem-solving, communication and documentation skills.
• Knowledge of virtualisation platforms.

We’re proud to be here for the people of Somerset. And that means everyone in Somerset. An important part of this is ensuring that we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve.

We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you apply.

We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.

We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
• Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more

For an informal chat about the role, you can contact Mark Woolaway, Tech Lead – Data Centre and Disaster Recovery at mark.woolaway@somerset.gov.uk or 07979857482.

Interviews will take place on week commencing 8th September 2025. 

The salary for this role is £38,220 - £41,771 per annum

When completing your application/CV please provide your full employment history and ensure that any gaps in employment are explained. Please start with your current or most recent employment.

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