Senior Server Support Consultant
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Cardiff, CF14 4XWView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£50,129 to £57,365
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
8 October 2026
9 days leftJob description
Design and technical implementation and support of the Health Board's IT Server Systems. Provision of support to staff, and where appropriate, trainin...
An exciting opportunity exists within the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board's Digital Operations Department for a Senior Server Consultant.
The Server Team maintain two main data centres which provide the compute and storage infrastructure to run critical applications for most of the UHB within a highly virtualised server environment. Increasingly there is a need to supplement this traditional on-premises hosting model and extend workloads into the cloud.
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board have an opening for a Band 7 Senior Server consultant who will provide technical expertise and leadership within the Server Team.
Successful applicants will deal with all technical aspects associated with the health and wellbeing of compute and storage infrastructure in order to ensure delivery of clinical and business services within the Health Board.
Ideal candidates will be enthusiastic and will want to work at pace to deliver change in an environment littered with interesting challenges.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.
Our mission is "Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together", and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. Our 10-year transformation and improvement strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, is our chance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable for the future.
Skills /Knowledge
Essential
- High level of technical ability in hardware and software fault diagnosis.
- Proficiency with Network Troubleshooting tools
- Systems automation through scripting e.g PowerShell, Bash, Python, .NET/ C#
Desirable: - UNIX & Linux - installation, configuration and administration in an enterprise or corporate setting; - Veeam installation, configuration and administration
Experience
Essential
- (Min 4yrs) Windows Server installation (including associated infra services, AD, DNS, DHCP), configuration, and administration in a medium to large enterprise or corporate setting
- (Min 4yrs) Infrastructure, installation and setup (e.g. physical server, storage array/SAN, network load balancer commissioning)
- (Min 4yrs) Troubleshooting hardware and software faults at 2nd or 3rd line level
Desirable
- UNIX/Linux Server installation, configuration, and administration in an enterprise or corporate setting
- Azure or AWS Administration Experience
- System Monitoring (inc. SIEM, SNMP & Performance monitoring).
- IIS Configuration and Management
- MS SQL Server Administration and Management
- SAN and Storage array configuration and management. Familiarity with fibre channel host attachment and MPIO.
- IT Project management
Qualifications
Essential: - Achieved Grade or 4 years experience
Desirable
- Relevant IT certifications relating to Microsoft, Linux, VMWare, Veeam ITIL, Azure or AWS e.g. VMWare VCP Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner AWS Certified SysOps Administrator AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Special Knowledge
Essential: - Provisioning and administering servers and services in Azure and AWS
Desirable
- Infrastructure-as-Code development and deployment using Terraform, CFN or CDK
- CI/CD Pipeline and workflow experience- GitHub Actions or AWS Code Deploy
- Git based Source Code Management (SCM)
- AWS LZA, Control Tower
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
25 September 2026
Last checked
29 September 2026
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