Server Engineer

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Server Engineer to join the Frontier team, based at Witham St Hughs on a permanent basis. Hybrid working options are available.

As our Server Engineer youll be responsible for the deployment, maintenance, operation and support of the IT Infrastructure services. Youll ensure all cloud and on premise hosted IT services are available, secure and perform to the agreed service level agreements, quality standards and budget in accordance with industry best practise and agreed processes. Its an exciting opportunity to join the IT team as we embark on a transformation project which youll be at the heart of supporting this delivery.

At Frontier, the Technology Team strive to deliver brilliant experiences for customers and colleagues. We want to hear from passionate, enthusiastic people from any background. We work with a variety of technologies from front-end native and web applications through to the backend systems that hold our organisation together and the hardware they run on. We are a data-driven organisation. We are transforming our technology landscape and the way we work, and this is a fantastic opportunity to join a team at the start of a change journey. Join us to make a real and valuable difference as you build your career at Frontier.

The Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Opportunities for a mixture of home and site working (to be agreed with Line Manager)
• 25 days holiday per calendar year with option to purchase 5 more days
• Dedicated Learning & Development team to support you and your career
• Employee Assistance Program providing 24 hours support & advice in areas such as health and wellbeing for yourself, your family & friends (up to 5 people in total)
• Increased Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave benefits for eligible employees
• Life Assurance scheme and pension plan with employer contributions of up to 7%
• Cycle to Work Scheme, employee retail discount scheme and free eye test vouchers

About You

• Comfortable communicating with internal and external stakeholders
• Enjoys working as part of a team
• Ability to work on own initiative, making decisions, managing own workload
• Experience of meeting multiple deadlines in a very time sensitive environment
• Solution focussed and passionate about getting things right first time despite challenges and obstacles
• Challenges processes and procedures to drive continuous improvement
• Experience of working in a customer focused industry

Your Role

Taking huge pride in what you do, your role will involve the delivery and operational management of the IT Infrastructure services within our cloud and on-premise platforms. Youll ensure all the activities needed to support and maintain the infrastructure including working within the infrastructure roadmap of scheduled product upgrades, patching, technology refreshes, and firmware, or service pack releases.

Along with:

• Support and continuous improvement of cloud and on-premise hosted IT Infrastructure services, server/storage, network, backup/recovery management, telecommunications and all associated infrastructure.
• Lead on assigned project work-streams, providing technical support for infrastructure and network implementation and upgrades.
• Deliver the transition of new or updated services, ensuring all functional and non-functional requirements have been met in order to operationally accept the new services into production.
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of low-level system designs/plans that ensure new services deliver the desired business outcomes, optimum level of the service and can be supported, maintained in a cost effective and secure way.
• Provides technical support, training and mentorship to IT colleagues across the business

Qualifications and/or experience specifically related to the following are essential:

• Windows Server including AD management
• VMWare
• Azure Entra
• Microsoft Office 365 tenant management
• Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager/ InTune/AutoPilot
• Microsoft Windows Patching and lifecycle management
• SQL Server (preferred but not essential)
• Linux (preferred but not essential)
• Citrix (preferred but not essential)

About Us

Frontier is a successful and growing business. We are the largest crop production and grain marketing company in the UK, with over 1,000 employees and a turnover of more than £1.5 billion.

With a vision to be the first-choice employer in UK agriculture, we are committed to delivering a culture where people are at the heart of our success.

Award winning for our commitment to people, we have been recognised by Great Place to Work institute since 2012 and we are proud to be ranked by them in the top 30 UK best large places to work.

Our business approach is underpinned by our core values Integrity, Customer focus and Expertise or ICE. These values support our whole philosophy and way of working and we are always looking to attract talented individuals with either industry knowledge or specialist skills that will help us deliver consistently to these values.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We have a clear commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity encouraging fairness and equality of treatment for all. As such we encourage applications from all backgrounds.

We recognise the value of a workforce in which people from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to introduce fresh ideas and contribute to the business goals.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive environment with inclusive employment policies, such as progressive flexible working and parental policies.

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