Advanced Digital Systems and Storage Engineer

Main area Corporate Grade NHS AfC:
Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job
-COR-8286272

Site GWP Unit 5/Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 16/10/2026 23:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Our values - We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:

Include We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

We are recruiting for a Advanced Digital Systems and Storage Engineer who share s our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Post-holder will ensure that the Trust’s IT systems provide a continuous service to all departments within the Trust and associated stakeholder business.

They will be a key technical resource available within IT and as such will have technical excellence in one or more key areas, and be able to provide specialist advice and expertise.

This role requires a high level of technical competence, excellent analytical skills, an ability to convey complex technical ideas to other Trust staff and management, an ability to organise complex plans and execute them and an ability to work unsupervised without reference to a manager.

This role will have a Digital On Call Rota.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:

Include,Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

The Advanced Digital Systems and Storage Engineer will w ork with the IT Server and Storage Lead to ensure an effective, efficient and respected systems support service is maintained to the Trust by adhering to agreed policies, standards and procedures.

Assist with the development and maintenance of disaster recovery arrangements and contingency planning, including testing of these arrangements.

Support IT Operations to ensure that computer security processes and appropriate backup strategies are in place for all Trust corporate systems.

Ensure integrity of IT server systems, application and user data (both clinical and non-clinical) by performing regular backup checks and test restores.

Provide 2nd and 3rd line support and expertise, to Service Desk, IT Desktop, Networks, Implementation and Development and Operations staff to ensure the timely closure of Helpdesk calls.

Provide support to the Implementation and Development team during project rollouts, planned work and moves.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn…