Job Title: Technology Specialist
Location: Home BasedSalary: £37,000 - £42,000 per annumWork Type: RemoteBasis: Full TimeHours: 37.5 per week
Rewards and Benefits:
- Contributory pension scheme.
- 26 days holiday.
- Occupational sick pay, protecting you and your family.
- Competitive maternity, paternity, and adoption benefits.
- Extensive range of employee benefits through our partner Perk box.
- Westfield Health cash plan for eligible staff.
- Continuous Professional Development options that will be tailored to your needs.
- A supportive team across the country.
- We are open to requests for flexible or part-time working; and we encourage open and regular conversations about work-life balance.
Role:
As a Technology Specialist, you will work with a number of schools across a region to help ensure their technology is fit for purpose.
You may also be involved with central projects on a national basis dependent on your skill set:
- Helping local IT implement technically challenging medium-scale projects, including supporting their procurement.
- Carrying out technical audits of key systems and processes, to identify threats to a school's effective operations.
- Supporting and challenging local IT and school management to implement any necessary changes to address identified problems.
- Providing input to IT estate refresh planning, allowing the school to budget to sustain a highly effective technology infrastructure/devices.
- Giving advice and training to local IT staff, to develop the school's capacity; and
- Offering additional short-term expert capacity in times of crisis.
Essential Skills:The proven ability to produce written outcomes to a high standard and strong mathematical ability MCSE/CCNA or equivalent technical qualificationsExperience and demonstrable expertise in:
- Azure/Entra/O365
- Windows OS
- InTune & Autopilot
- Windows Server environments including hypervisor deployments in both Hyper-V and VMWare
- Active Directory
- Layer 3 Network Management and WAN optimisation
- Highly developed diagnostic and technical troubleshooting skills
- Experience of leading and developing team(s) at delivering technical excellence
- Strong knowledge of basic ICT packages: Office, Outlook, Windows.
- A commitment to continuous improvement
- A genuine interest in technology and a clear strategy for keeping up to date with developments
Desirable Skills:
- Good relevant honours degree (2.2 or above) or equivalent experience
- Evidence of further professional development and training
- Experience of working within education/school environment
- A clear understanding of how IT is effectively used in teaching and learning
- Knowledge and experience of ITIL service desk operations
- Experience of working across multiple sites and managing the expectations of multiple stakeholders
- Experience in documenting systems and operations in complex environments
- Experience with Apple IOS/OSX & Google Chrome OS
- Experience with PowerShell and Graph PowerShell
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