Infrastructure Consultant

As an Infrastructure Consultant within the Vulnerability Management Team, you will provide technical expertise for enterprise IT solutions, ensuring they operate effectively and remain aligned with business needs, corporate strategies, and architectural standards. Your focus will be on maintaining and improving existing infrastructure services as part of BAU operations, while managing evergreen changes to keep systems secure, compliant, and up to date.

You'll work across a broad range of technologies and act as a subject matter expert in one or more of the following areas:

Core Infrastructure

• Windows Server
• Virtualisation platforms (e.g., Hyper-V, VMware)
• Linux
• SCCM & SCOM
• Active Directory
• Enterprise application management
• Understanding or exposure to PCI DSS and PSN code of connection, principles, and best practice
• Networking

Vulnerability Management

• Vulnerability Management including vulnerability identification, assessment and service hardening
• Data security principles

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• PowerShell scripting
• Azure DevOps

You'll provide expert consultancy to management, guiding IT strategy and promoting awareness of IT policies, technologies, systems, and processes., We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.

Are you looking for a challenging and diverse role working as part of a friendly and supportive team, with an opportunity to make a real difference?, We are seeking a passionate, technically skilled professional who will have a strong technical background with expertise in enterprise-scale data centre server technologies including hyperconverged/virtualised infrastructure and vulnerability management within a corporate setting. This is a role for a server and vulnerability management technology IT professional, where you will act as a trusted advisor to management, providing consultancy, support and guidance on IT solutions. Whether you're ready to step up or already operating at this level, we would love to hear from you. You'll thrive in a collaborative, high-performing environment, working alongside motivated and supportive colleagues to deliver excellence and drive innovation in public service IT., This post is subject to a Criminal Records Check and Non-Police Personnel Vetting. Further information about this process will be provided to successful candidates. Candidates must have resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 years for the Non-Police Personnel Vetting in order for clearance to be obtained.

Our benefits package includes details of the holiday entitlement, pension scheme, flexi-time scheme, family friendly policies and interest free travel loans and discounts. We offer a flexible, motivating and inclusive workplace. We have created an environment that you can look forward to being a part of, where you are empowered to be your best and a workplace built on teamwork where people can grow and develop in their roles.

Hampshire County Council offers a pleasant, supportive, and collaborative working environment.

If you think you have what it takes to make a real difference in Hampshire, get in touch!

Hampshire County Council is recognised as one of the top-performing local authorities in the UK. As a forward-looking local authority, we are proud to deliver high-quality public services to over a million residents, with our IT teams playing a vital role in that success.