
Essential Employment
Server Engineer & Cloud Architect
Job Description
Salary: £43,600 - 62,400 per year
Requirements:- Experience providing 3rd line support for IT incidents, service requests, and problem management.
- Strong experience administering, managing, maintaining, and optimising hybrid server, storage, and cloud environments.
- Experience designing, implementing, and supporting cloud architecture solutions aligned to business and technical requirements.
- Strong knowledge of infrastructure security, including patch management, firmware updates, operating system maintenance, and access control.
- Experience supporting infrastructure projects through technical expertise, solution analysis, and product evaluation.
- Ability to monitor system health, performance, capacity, and service quality and resolve issues proactively.
- Experience producing technical documentation, standards, procedures, and architectural designs.
- Willingness to participate in an out-of-hours on-call support rota.
- Awareness of emerging technologies, industry best practices, and security standards.
- Provide 3rd line support for IT incidents, service requests, and problem management activities, diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues.
- Administer, manage, maintain, and optimise hybrid server, storage, and cloud environments.
- Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of infrastructure services.
- Design, implement, and support cloud architecture solutions aligned with business and technical requirements.
- Produce and maintain technical documentation, standards, procedures, and architectural designs.
- Ensure systems remain secure through effective patch management, firmware updates, operating system maintenance, and access control measures.
- Support infrastructure projects by providing technical expertise, solution options analysis, and product evaluations.
- Monitor infrastructure performance, system health, capacity, and service quality, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and technical teams to deliver infrastructure enhancements and strategic technology initiatives.
- Participate in the out-of-hours on-call support rota to provide emergency support when required.
- Maintain awareness of emerging technologies, industry best practices, and security standards.
- Architect
- Cloud
- Firmware
- Support
- Security
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We are hiring a Server Engineer & Cloud Architect for a temporary full-time role based in Lincoln, offering £20.93 per hour. We are an equal opportunities employer, and our roles may be subject to pre-employment checks including references. This is an opportunity to support and shape hybrid infrastructure and cloud architecture within a collaborative technical environment.
last updated 31 week of 2026
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Lincoln
IT
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£53,000
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£60,000
UK median
This salary is 12% below the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks