Essential Employment

Essential Employment

Lincoln, East Midlands

Server Engineer & Cloud Architect

Full-Time£43,600 - 62,400 per yearвчераUnited Kingdom
IT

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.
Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Technologies:
  • Architect
  • Cloud
  • Firmware
  • Support
  • Security

More:

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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