Overview
Senior Infrastructure Engineer Endpoints (0022-26) – Derby, DE22 1GB
About the University
We have one simple promise – to make a positive impact. Through our ground-breaking research, teaching excellence and commitment to sustainable living, we are changing lives for the better.
The University of Derby is a modern university with a modern outlook. Everything we do is driven by delivering excellence and opportunities for our students, our staff and our region.
We have some of the best university facilities in the UK and achieve outstanding results for our teaching and research and have been awarded Gold in the prestigious Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023 – making it one of the top universities in the country recognised for its outstanding student experience and student outcomes.
Financially strong and seriously ambitious we offer our employees an inclusive culture that centres itself around staff wellbeing, where you can be confident you will receive all the help and encouragement you need to build a rewarding career with lots of opportunities to enhance your skills.
About the College/Department
Digital Solutions & Services are responsible for providing the digital platform to enable the best possible service to staff, students and stakeholders across the University and beyond. We take a collaborative approach to developing strategic goals to provide a diverse range of information technology and business services designed to support learning, teaching and research at the University of Derby.
We are responsible for ensuring that the University’s IT capability is fit for purpose, future focused and able to protect, support and enhance the full breadth of services that will be delivered either on campus or digitally online with contributions across the department. We aim to assist students, teaching staff, support departments and collaborative partners to ensure we are making an impact on the University’s current and future digital landscape.
The Endpoint development team are a small team who are responsible for the development and running of a modern desktop and mobile management hybrid infrastructure to manage and secure the student and staff estate of Windows and Apple Mac across the university.
About the Role
The Senior Engineer will have operational day to day responsibility of the various technologies and platforms required to develop and run the endpoint estate, ensuring their optimum performance, reliability and security. This includes imaging from bare metal, application packaging and deployment, updating, security and endpoint health, reporting and analytics across the estate.
The Senior Engineer will work closely with the second line operations team to ensure the endpoint estate is functioning as needed and work on operational handover as required or work is identified for left shift.
Key responsibilities are, but not limited to
- Ensure the Endpoint estate is well managed and secure and provides the appropriate customer experience
- co-developing key strategies, roadmaps, designs, developing and then implementing / updating services within the team, having key accountability for services
- Document all work
- Assists with sector horizon scanning, benchmarks service against the sector to ensure service is future focussed
- Maintain security of complex hybrid systems through implementing secure strategies, policies and controls and automation where possible
- Owns priority and diagnosis of incidents according to agreed procedures
- Serves as an escalation point within the team and for operations
About You
The ideal candidate will have experience of implementing innovative solutions that are customer and future focused, along with significant experience of managing large-scale mixed estates of endpoints.
This will include:
- Extensive experience of application packaging and deployment
- Proven experience of Microsoft Office 365, Exchange Online, and Azure services e.g. Azure AD Connect, Azure LogicApps, Virtual Machines, Microsoft Lab Services
- extensive knowledge of configuration / Endpoint management e.g. Intune, Autopilot, Microsoft Configuration Manager, JAMF, Active Directory, Group Policy
- extensive knowledge of security technologies such as Defender for Endpoint and security baselines
- Excellent knowledge of Windows, MacOS
- Skills in automation, orchestration
- Ability to deliver within tight deadlines in a demanding environment
- Attention to detail and determination for excellence
- Passion, energy and enthusiasm for continuous improvement and encourages innovation
Benefits
- Generous annual leave entitlement of 38 days inclusive of bank holidays and concessionary days (pro rata)
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Suite of holistic wellbeing benefits and support including family-friendly policies, generous sick pay provision and comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to a variety of staff discounts at high street retailers
- Discounted onsite gym
- Holiday purchase
- Cycle to Work scheme
- A flexible working environment
- A commitment to personal and professional development
Key Contact
For further information and informal enquiries regarding the role, please contact Jamie Oliver, Lead Infrastructure Engineer Endpoints/Team Leader via J.Oliver1@derby.ac.uk
For enquiries regarding your application and for sponsorship eligibility, please contact the recruitment team via recruitment@derby.ac.uk
Key Information
The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers under the Skilled Worker route for this role; however, applications are welcome from candidates who are able to demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Please visit our website for more information.
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Please find our Safeguarding pages including our Safeguarding Policy here.
Closing Date: 22 Feb 2026
Area: Management, Professional and Specialist
Salary: £38,285 to £52,605 per annum
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