Closing in 7 days (1 October 2025 11:59 pm)

Job details

Contract type: Permanent

Working pattern: Full time

About the job

Key information

• 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
• 28 Days annual leave (Plus Bank Holiday)
• Role is full time (37 hours) Permanent.
• Take on a junior role in the team

What will I be doing?

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

• Perform maintenance and upgrades to Hypervisors across Somerset Council Datacentres
• Carry out maintenance checks as required
• Support and over time configure our Cloud platform (Microsoft Azure)
• Dealing with day-to-day tickets within our ITSM (HALO).
• Support Senior/Lead Engineer on projects required by hosting.

What kind of experience or qualifications do I need?

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

• Have knowledge of key Hosting principals including
  • Azure Cloud, Azure Local, VMware management.
• Have knowledge in SCOM or similar monitoring tools.
• Can deal with changing and competing deadlines and priorities.
• Good problem-solving skills.

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.

What is in it for me?

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

This role requires a criminal background (DBS) check via the Disclosure procedure.

Supporting documents and information

The salary for this role is Grade Som12 – £28,598 – £32,061.

For an informal chat about the role, you can contact Nick Hill, Tech Lead – Hosting at nick.hill@somerset.gov.uk or 01984 600210.

Interviews will take place on week commencing 13th October 2025

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.

If you have all the information you need, just hit the apply button – we can’t wait to hear from you.