About IT Services Strategic Aims Our multi-award winning IT Services Department supports As well as delivering a operational service to our customers, over 30,000 students worldwide and over 3000 staff across we are constantly leading multiple strategic IT developments. As multiple locations within Derbyshire and Staffordshire. an example, this year we are upgrading our telephone Recognised by the UK IT Industry as having highly talented infrastructure, implementing a complete campus refresh of our people using industry-leading technologies, we are also networking infrastructure, investing in a Hyper Converged proud of our ability to deliver transformational change for platform, creating a new cloud based research platform and the organisation in a culture which supports, develops and completing the final phase of our Windows 10 desktop rollout, and supporting multi-million pound estates improvements and brings the best out of our teams to give great services to many other large-scale projects. our students. Neil Williams, our Director of IT Services and Digital Transformation, consistently supports our to be best in Opportunities class and as you would expect, our technology choices tend reflect this: There are a huge range of exciting opportunities to use your expertise and develop your career within IT Services at the We have two datacentres on a stretched LAN running University of Derby if you have the following – CISCO FLexpods, Tintri, Dell EMC Isilon storage and are Can do attitude you take ownership and having a Proactive – completely CISCO across our networking infrastructure. approach to work Our server environment is totally virtualised (VMWare) and Continuous improvement you want to be the best in – we run a variety of enterprise applications from all the having professional pride and doing the best you can Adaptability being transformational alongside driving and recognised industry leaders e.g. ORACLE, Microsoft. Our – adapting to change teams are encouraged to automate and innovate wherever Passionate working collaboratively to achieve the goals of – possible. This supports the front-face of our service, who the university ensuring you are open and honest support a 6000+ desktop estate and our 200+ teaching User-Centric you are solutions focused – rooms, where we have again standardised on tier 1 and have the ambition to be part of a great team, we’d love to vendors in Lenovo and Crestron for AV automation and hear from you. control.
About IT Services Our multi-award winning IT Services Department supports over 30,000 students worldwide and over 3000 staff across multiple locations within Derbyshire and Staffordshire. Recognised by the UK IT Industry as having highly talented people using industry-leading technologies, we are also proud of our ability to deliver transformational change for the organisation in a culture which supports, develops and brings the best out of our teams to give great services to our students. Neil Williams, our Director of IT Services and Digital Transformation, consistently supports our to be best in class and as you would expect, our technology choices tend reflect this: We have two datacentres on a stretched LAN running CISCO FLexpods, Tintri, Dell EMC Isilon storage and are completely CISCO across our networking infrastructure. Our server environment is totally virtualised (VMWare) and we run a variety of enterprise applications from all the recognised industry leaders e.g. ORACLE, Microsoft. Our teams are encouraged to automate and innovate wherever possible. This supports the front-face of our service, who support a 6000+ desktop estate and our 200+ teaching rooms, where we have again standardised on tier 1 vendors in Lenovo and Crestron for AV automation and control. Strategic Aims As well as delivering a operational service to our customers, we are constantly leading multiple strategic IT developments. As an example, this year we are upgrading our telephone infrastructure, implementing a complete campus refresh of our networking infrastructure, investing in a Hyper Converged platform, creating a new cloud based research platform and completing the final phase of our Windows 10 desktop rollout, and supporting multi-million pound estates improvements and many other large-scale projects. Opportunities There are a huge range of exciting opportunities to use your expertise and develop your career within IT Services at the University of Derby – if you have the following Can do attitude – you take ownership and having a Proactive approach to work Continuous improvement – you want to be the best in having professional pride and doing the best you can Adaptability – being transformational alongside driving and adapting to change Passionate – working collaboratively to achieve the goals of the university ensuring you are open and honest User-Centric – you are solutions focused and have the ambition to be part of a great team, we’d love to hear from you.
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