IT Engineer
Location: Aberdeen
Role: Full time, 36.5 hours
Salary: Up to £42,000 per annum dependent on experience
Application Deadline: Friday 17 April 2026
We’re looking for IT Engineer to join the Technology Department at Port of Aberdeen and be responsible for the effective day-to-day operation, maintenance, and monitoring of the organisation’s IT infrastructure. The role provides a wide range of technical support services, including end-user desktop support, troubleshooting hardware, software, and ancillary IT/OT equipment issues, as well as back-end database and server administration and cloud platform configuration.
Skills, experience and qualifications
- Proven experience in an IT infrastructure engineering role or similar.
- Strong experience supporting enterprise Windows and Linux Server environments.
- Good working knowledge of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, and file services such as SMB and DFS.
- Experience with server virtualisation technologies (VMware, Hyper-V etc.)
- Experience of backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes.
- Experience supporting network infrastructure and security technologies.
- Experience with Microsoft 365 and/or Azure administration.
- Experience troubleshooting complex technical issues across infrastructure platforms.
- Experience of infrastructure changes, upgrades, and project delivery.
- Good documentation skills and ability to produce clear technical procedures.
- Strong planning and organisational skills, with the ability to work to short deadlines and unexpected change of plans.
- Strong understanding of IT security principles and infrastructure best practice.
- Experience of scripting and automation would be beneficial, particularly PowerShell.
- Experience with backup products such as Veeam or similar.
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, planning and execution skills.
- Ability to quickly gain new skills and knowledge when faced with new challenges
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong focus on technology
- Able to prioritise workload and manage multiple technical tasks.
- Ability to produce reports from database systems (using Power BI desirable)
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues to non-technical colleagues.
- Methodical approach to troubleshooting and documentation.
How to apply
Port of Aberdeen is committed to equality of opportunity and encourages a diverse range of applicants, and to the principle of appointments based on merit. We apply openness and transparency of process.
If you are interested in the above role, we kindly request that you submit your completed application and equal opportunities monitoring forms using the application link below.
