IT Operations Engineer

Veterinary Medicines Directorate

IT Operations Engineer (Infrastructure & Network Lead)

Reference number : 437292

Salary : £46,060 + 25 days Annual Leave + Pension Scheme with an average employer contribution of 28.97%

Contract type :
Permanent (Full-time, Part-time)

Location :
Addlestone, Surrey

The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) is an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and is responsible for ensuring the safety, quality, and efficacy of veterinary medicines in the UK.

We have a vacancy for IT Operations Engineer (Infrastructure & Network Lead).

This is a great role for who enjoys solving problems end to end, improving reliability and security, and working across on prem networks, cloud platforms, and modern workplace technologies.

Your role as our IT Operations Engineer will be to focus on our Networks, Servers, and IT infrastructure, hands‑on technical lead, for day‑to‑day networking and cloud platform operations across our site and Microsoft cloud tenancy. You will provide 1st3rd line support for networks and core infrastructure, collaborate closely with our managed service providers, third party service providers and vendors for escalations and complex changes, and steward our Azure / M365 estate.

You will also liaise with our managed AWS pro...