Technical Engineer

The Role

Are you proactive, hard-working, and keen to learn? Lancaster City Council is seeking a Technical Engineer to join our ICT team, supporting the technology that underpins vital council services.

As a Technical Engineer, you’ll play a key role in maintaining and developing our ICT infrastructure, including servers, networks, cloud services, and CCTV systems. You’ll be involved in a variety of technical projects, from designing and configuring new systems to collaborating with external vendors. Your work will help protect the council from cyber threats and support digital transformation across the organisation.

This hybrid role offers flexibility and the opportunity to develop your skills in a supportive environment. You’ll be encouraged to keep up to date with new technologies and contribute to continuous improvement across the team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support and maintain ICT infrastructure (servers, networks, cloud, CCTV).
• Provide 3rd line technical support and routine maintenance.
• Respond to cyber security incidents and apply best practice.
• Produce clear technical and user documentation.
• Manage projects and work with external vendors.
• Promote good cyber security practices across the organisation.

Flexible working friendly – we offer hybrid working, a generous flexi-time scheme, and opportunity to work with your team to establish working hours to enable you to maximise your work-life balance.

About You

You will identify with our organisational values of Pride, Ownership, Working Together and Ambition.

Our Benefits

Lancaster is a great place to work, as well as being part of something special you will also benefit from:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• A range of employee benefits including discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, the opportunity to purchase extra time off, as well as discounts on days out, activities and retail.

Lancaster City Council has unanimously declared a climate emergency and will therefore work towards reducing carbon emissions to net-zero by 2030. As part of this role, you will be expected to participate and work towards reducing both carbon emissions and the impacts of climate change.

We are an Investor in People, Forces Friendly employer, and an Armed Forces Covenant committed organisation. We welcome applications from defence reserves and other members of our armed forces community. We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from all parts of our community.

At Lancaster City Council we aim to have a diverse workforce that is representative of the district that we serve and provide a working environment where each employee feels able to bring their whole self to work. We welcome applications from all sections of our community and provide several supportive and inclusive workplace networks and safe spaces for employees to feel connected. Our workplace wellbeing strategy drives our commitment to staff wellbeing initiatives and ensuring that our organisation is a great place to work for all.

We are a disability confident committed employer.

Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unable to update all applicants individually. If you do not receive a response from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then your application will have unfortunately been unsuccessful in progressing to interview.

Interview date: TBC