Role:

Salary: Career graded 7-9, £30,117 – £45,546 

Location: Agile – Ponteland Police Station and homeworking 

Hours/Contract: Permanent, 37hrs per week

Working for #TeamNP

Our purpose at Team NP is simple: to keep people safe and to fight crime. But it takes more than officers alone to do the job – and that’s where our 2,000-strong team of police staff and 200 volunteers come in. 

As one of the largest police forces in England we have a huge variety of departments and specialisms offering you endless opportunities. From mentoring and coaching schemes and online soft skills courses to leadership development programmes; we’ll give you the support, training and time to carve out the career you always wanted. 

As one of the top 50 UK inclusive employers and a disability confident employer, we promote a culture of respect in the workplace so everyone can feel seen, heard and valued. 

Whether you’re a member of staff or a volunteer, you can also expect first-rate support to manage your health and wellbeing. With year-round events, a 24/7 welfare support hotline and a leading approach to neurodiversity, our initiatives enable you to be at your best. 

Above all else, here at Team NP, we can offer you a career that is so much more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something that really matters.  

Learn about our full benefits package

The role

Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Digital Policing Department as a Server and Storage Engineer.

Working alongside multi-disciplined teams and colleagues within Digital Policing, the Server and Storage Engineer participates in the delivery of a performant, cost effective and appropriately resilient Server, Backup and Storage environment, that meets the agreed service level for critical business functions.

Sound interesting? For further information, and to support your application, please view the job description

What you’ll do

• Install, upgrade, configure and document new Server, Storage and Backup systems as planned and to the correct standards.


• Provide 2nd/3rd Line support of Server, Storage and Backup services, liaising with internal and external groups, manufacturers and suppliers as required to maintain system functionality, reliability and availability.


• Participate in evaluating opportunities for greater efficiency and optimisation within Server, Storage and Backup infrastructure to drive down costs of these services.


• Identify potential problems and trends within Server, Storage and Backup environments and implement proactive strategies to reduce service affecting issues.


• Provide Root Cause analysis of service affecting issues to prevent repeat occurrences.

What you’ll bring

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role supporting Enterprise level Servers within an Active Directory Domain.


• Demonstrable experience of building and deploying Windows Server 2012/2016 within a Datacentre environment.


• Demonstrable experience of troubleshooting day to day issues within an Enterprise Client/Server Infrastructure.


• Strong Experience of Planning and Upgrading Servers and hardware within a Datacentre environment.


• Strong Experience of Active Directory including GPO configuration & troubleshooting.


• Strong Experience of TCPDNSDHCP and general Networking concepts.


• Ideally you will have experience working with Enterprise backup and/or Storage products.


• Ideally you will have experience with scripting tools (PowerShell, VBScript).


• Ideally you will have a practicable working knowledge of administering, configuring and troubleshooting RHEL/SUSE.


• Ideally you will have a practicable working knowledge of ITSM products (SCCM/SCOM preferred).


• Ideally you will have a good working knowledge of VMWare (ESX, VCenter, VDI), however training will be provided if required.

What we would LOVE you to bring:

• A passion for reducing TOIL across service provision via Automation, Monitoring and Observability.


• Natural creativity and ability to challenge the status quo.

We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. 

Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.

Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please contact Shaun Whittaker by email at shaun.whittaker@northumbria.police.uk

What we offer

• 26 days’ leave (increasing to 30 days for 5 years+ service) plus 8 bank holidays


• NHS Fleet Solutions Car Lease Scheme


• Enhanced maternity, shared parental and adoption leave


• Flexi time – allowing you to fit your working hours around your individual needs


• Flexible working (we are happy to discuss options such as compressed hours)


• Agile working – option to work from home, your team zone, and spaces across the force


• Fantastic market-leading public sector pension scheme with up to 16% employer contribution


• Corporate travel schemes – local rail, bus services and metro discounts


• Access to private healthcare and eye test vouchers


• Discounts on shopping and eating out thanks to the Blue Light Card and Blue Light Tickets


• We’ve invested in extensive paid sick leave, trained mental health first aiders on-site, an employee advice service for the times you need that additional support


• Access to gyms in some stations


• Sports & Social Club – join our thriving sports scene at Team NP and enjoy further exclusive discounts on days out and travel


• Cycle to work scheme

Just so you know

Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Server and Storage Engineer with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute. 

The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face to face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert. 

We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.

If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly. 

If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV) and Security Clearance (SC) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed.  A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance and medical information.

Terms of appointment

This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.

If you are successful in your application, you will have a 6month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.