Job Description
Salary £46,142-£51,356 per annum | Permanent, Full time, 37 hours per week | County Hall, Preston, Lancashire.
We are seeking an experienced and forward‑thinking digital infrastructure engineer to join our Digital Services team in a senior technical role focused on Infrastructure & Security. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and support large, complex ICT environments while contributing to both business‑as‑usual operations and strategic change activity.
Working within a professional and collaborative environment, you will provide technical leadership, subject‑matter expertise and service improvement across a broad range of digital infrastructure areas. The role will also support the continued development of modern working practices, including an ITIL‑led approach to Infrastructure & Security operations and management, while ensuring services remain secure, resilient and aligned to organisational priorities.
Ideal Candidate
Be a highly capable and motivated ICT professional with substantial experience in technical support, infrastructure delivery and service improvement. You should be confident leading work across complex digital environments, balancing operational demands with project and change activity. The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator who can build strong working relationships with senior stakeholders, colleagues, suppliers and service users, influence decisions, manage competing priorities and present technical detail clearly and accessibly. A strong commitment to continuous improvement, customer focus, cyber security, and best practice will be essential, along with the ability to motivate and develop others where required.
Roles & Responsibilities
Deliver end‑to‑end ICT solutions and support complex technical infrastructures. Lead or coordinate teams, manage workloads and resources effectively, and ensure services are delivered in line with agreed standards, targets and strategic objectives. Apply ITIL principles and service management practices, and design, problem‑solve, identify risks and develop practical, effective solutions. Work with senior stakeholders and maintain productive supplier and partner relationships.
Technology Requirements
- Microsoft 365 / Azure / MEM (Intune) / SharePoint / Entra / Hybrid / Identity / Defender
- Microsoft SCCM / MECM
- Windows Server & Desktop
- Active Directory / Authentication / Group Policy / DNS / PKI / DHCP
- Exchange / Exchange 365 Online
- IIS / Apache / TomCat
- MS Office & Teams applications
- PowerShell Scripting
- Enterprise Security
- Linux / Unix / RedHat
- Hypervisors: VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere / Hyper‑V, Nutanix
- Enterprise DR applications (Veritas NetBackup / Keepit)
About Us
Lancashire County Council is the fourth largest local authority in England, covering a huge geographic area and a wide range of communities both urban and rural. The council’s remit is substantial, varied and complex, delivering a wide range of services to the 1.2 million people who live here; we exist to serve the people, schools, businesses and organisations of Lancashire and beyond.
This is an exciting time to join Lancashire County Council, with plenty of interesting projects in the pipeline as we work to support the council’s digital agenda. This post offers a real opportunity to make a difference to the delivery of public services across Lancashire.
Benefits
We value our staff as individuals and aim to help them achieve their full potential while working for us. We offer a work environment that encourages staff engagement, team working and problem solving, and recognise the importance and benefits of a good work‑life balance. In return for your passion and expertise we offer all staff a generous benefits package equal to the terms and conditions enjoyed by all council staff.
- Flexible working hours (37 hrs per week) along with opportunities for agile working.
- Generous Local Government Pension Scheme with employer contribution, death in service payments, life assurance and dependent pensions.
- Great holiday entitlement: 26 days annual leave rising to 32 after five years’ continuous service, eight bank holidays and two further statutory days during the Christmas and New Year period.
- Family‑friendly employer: help to balance family commitments, including generous maternity leave, paternity leave and support for working carers, adoption and parental leave.
Additional Information
The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). If successful you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a disclosure.
Closing Date: 19th July 2026
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