Salary £46,142- £51,356 per annum | Permanent, Full time, 37 hours per week | County Hall, Preston, Lancashire.
We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking digital infrastructure engineer to join our Digital Services team in a senior technical role focused on Infrastructure & Security. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and support large, complex ICT environments while contributing to both business-as-usual operations and strategic change activity. Working within a professional and collaborative environment, you will provide technical leadership, subject matter expertise and service improvement across a broad range of digital infrastructure areas. The role will also support the continued development of modern working practices, including an ITIL-led approach to Infrastructure & Securityoperationsandmanagement, while ensuring services remain secure, resilient and aligned to organisational priorities.
The ideal candidate will:
Be a highly capable and motivated ICT professional with substantial experience in technical support, infrastructure delivery and service improvement. You will be confident leading work across complex digital environments and able to balance operational demands with project and change activity. The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator who can build strong working relationships with senior stakeholders, colleagues, suppliers and service users. You will be comfortable influencing decisions, managing competing priorities and presenting technical detail in a way that is clear and accessible to a range of audiences. A strong commitment to continuous improvement, customer focus, cyber security, and best practice will be essential, along with the ability to motivate and develop others where required.
In this role you will bring the following skills/experience:
You will bring significant experience in delivering end-to-end ICT solutions and supporting complex technical infrastructures. You will have a proven ability to lead or coordinate teams, manage workloads and resources effectively, and ensure services are delivered in line with agreed standards, targets and strategic objectives. Strong working knowledge of ITIL principles and service management practices is important, alongside experience of technical design, problem solving, risk identification and the development of practical, effective solutions. You should also have experience of working with senior stakeholders and maintaining productive supplier and partner relationships. Relevant industry qualifications, a degree-level education or equivalent professional experience will be advantageous.
You will hold experience in several of the following technology areas:
Cyber security operations; cloud security; hybrid and on-premises environments; security compliance and governance; identity and access management; systems integration; infrastructure architecture; digital service support; service monitoring and performance management; technical strategy development; and the implementation of secure, scalable and cost-effective digital solutions. Experience of modern cloud security architecture, threat protection, and integrating secure cloud services with on-premises systems would be particularly valuable.
- Microsoft 365/ Azure /MEM (Intune)/SharePoint/Entra/Hybrid/Identity/Defender
- Microsoft SCCM/MECM
- Windows Server & Desktop
- Active Directory/Authentication/Group Policy/DNS/PKI/DHCP
- Exchange/Exchange365 Online
- IIS/Apache/TomCat
- MS Office & Teams applications.
- PowerShell Scripting
- Enterprise Security
- Linux/Unix/RedHat
- Hypervisors: VmWare ESXi, VmWare vSphere/Hyper V, Nutanix
- Enterprise DR applications (Veritas NetBackup/Keepit)
About us
Lancashire County Council is the fourth largest local authority in England and covers a huge geographic area and a wide range of communities both urban and rural. The council's remit is substantial, varied and complex, delivering a wide range of services to the 1.2 million people who live here; we exist to serve the people, schools, businesses and organisations of Lancashire and beyond.
This is an exciting time to join Lancashire County Council, with plenty of interesting projects in the pipeline as we work to support Lancashire County Council's digital agenda.
This post offers a real opportunity to make a difference to the delivery of public services across Lancashire.
The Benefits
We value our staff as individuals and aim to help them achieve their full potential while working for us. We offer a work environment that encourages staff engagement, team working and problem solving, we recognise the importance and benefits of a good work life balance. In return for your passion and expertise we offer all our staff a generous benefits package equal to the terms and conditions enjoyed by all council staff.
These are just some of the benefits you could enjoy:
- Flexible working hours (37 hrs per week) along with opportunities for agile working
- Extremely generous Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, death in service payments, life assurance and dependents pensions
- Great Holiday Entitlement: 26 days annual leave entitlement rising to 32, after five years' continuous service. Eight bank holidays and two further additional statutory days during the Christmas and New Year period
- Family friendly employer: Help to balance family commitments, including generous maternity leave, paternity leave and support for working carers Adoption and parental leave.
Great location, just a short walk from the train station and main bus route.
Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.
The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). If successful, you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a 'disclosure'. Further information can be found on the 'Our Recruitment Process' tab.
In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.
We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.
For further details including the Job Description and Person Specification click here - Job Description and Person Specification
How to apply…
For an informal discussion about the post please contact:
Tom Melchers on 01772 538985 or email Tom.Melchers@lancashire.gov.uk.
Closing Date: 19th July 2026 Interviews: w/c 27th July 2026
