IT Professional (Mac Specialism) – End User Compute

About the team:

IT & Digital (ITD) is central to where we are going as a university and the experience, we offer to both our professional colleagues and our students. The work we do impacts significantly on both the personal and learning experience of those who study here. We are committed to developing and maintaining highly usable, fast, flexible, and personalised Information Systems services that reflect the changing needs of our growing university.

You will be part of the End User Compute (EUC) team who are responsible for the engineering, management, security, and compliance of our multiplatform environment (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android). This team includes application packaging and availability, endpoint security, device configuration utilities (SCCM, JAMF) and OS / platform design and maintenance.  The team along with others makes up the Campus Support team, consisting of approximately 40 staff members across multiple specialist areas.

The role:

The primary focus of the role is to manage the Mac platform and day to day management as part of a team of skilled EUC and software deployment professionals – with a focus on people, process, and task management. You will play a key role in shaping and driving projects, critical pieces of repeatable work and innovative change within your specialist area.

The role requires you to have significant experience of working in specialist technical teams, a strong background in managing enterprise Mac/Windows platforms and excellent interpersonal skills.

In return, this role offers an excellent opportunity to develop not only your skills and that of a capable team, but also drive change and new technology in this exciting area of IT delivery.

About you:

The successful applicant will have:

Key skills

• Good communication, both written and oral – including business case development and presentation skills
• Ability to work and interact with other teams to deliver on agreed deadlines.
• Customer service focused approach.

Essential Skills

• Experience of managing a large Mac based estate
• Relevant qualification of Mac management (E.G JAMF 100,200)
• Expertise in Windows/SCCM operating systems and enterprise management.
• Experience of delivering on a range of tasks, projects, and outcomes
• Broad knowledge and experience of enterprise level IT systems.
• Experience of managing Office 365 technologies and deploying into platform.
• Experience of deployment and management of endpoint security platforms.
• Experience of Active Directory, Azure AD and Group Policy management.
• A clear understanding and drive to meet security and compliance standards and a ‘secure by default’ ethos.

You will be required to undertake the duties below: 

• Provide high level technical expertise in the development, support, and maintenance of multi-platform EUC environments
• Act as contributor and adviser in projects and lead discussions and share expertise with colleagues and others.
• Take a role in the research, evaluation, development, and deployment of new and emerging technologies relevant to EUC systems and services.
• Formulating processes to ensure that the broad EUC platform is reliable, resilient and is capable of rapid recovery in the event of planned or unplanned circumstances disrupting normal operations.
• Proactively set and maintain best practice and development standards and provide advice to colleagues.
• Assist team lead with capacity planning to ensure timely project delivery.
• Engagement with potential and existing suppliers of EUC and platform infrastructure, providing technical evaluation and input to procurement processes, ensuring the best value for the University.
• Understand and implement IT security into all aspects of EUC planning and delivery.

Working at Manchester Met:

Manchester Met is a great place to work, and you will be part of a great team.  We are ambitious for our staff; ourselves and we recognise the key contribution our colleagues make by Staff being one of our four strategic priorities. 

In addition to a great working environment, you will have access to the University facilities including sport, library and wide range of benefits including health and wellbeing support. 

We offer a competitive salary alongside an industry beating pension scheme.  We also offer generous holiday packages, which include 25 days per year holiday, plus Christmas shutdown and bank holidays.

Please apply by submitting a CV and covering letter. 
 
If you would like to join our people and share our ambition, we would love to hear from you. 

In recognition of staff contributions to the University’s achievements during the 2021/2022 academic year, an additional discretionary payment of 2% per annum will be added to your salary until 31/07/23 in order to ensure consistency amongst existing and incoming staff.  This additional 2% will be paid pro rata in equal monthly installments, on top of your salary each month until 31/07/23.

Manchester MetropolitanUniversity is committed to supporting the rights, responsibilities, dignity, health and wellbeing of staff and students through our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

We promote applications from all sections of the community, irrespective of background, belief or identity, recognising the benefits that a diverse organisation can bring and particularlyencourageapplications from groups which are underrepresented in the University workforce.

Hybrid working is offered for this role, where you will be able to work a proportion of time on campus and a proportion remotely.  We recognise the benefits and importance of an environment that supports flexible working and are open to conversations throughout the application process.