IT Project Engineer – Oxford
We’re looking for an IT Project Engineer to join our IT Operations & Services team in Oxford. You’ll deliver and support IT projects focused on endpoint management, device configuration, and Microsoft Intune, ensuring a seamless technology experience across the business.
This role suits someone with hands-on project and support experience in Windows, macOS, and cloud environments, eager to expand skills in Microsoft 365, Azure AD, and modern device management. You’ll collaborate across teams, troubleshoot complex issues, and drive improvements that enable our science and innovation.
Key Responsibilities:
What You’ll Bring:
Desirable:
Microsoft 365, Microsoft Intune, or related Microsoft certification.
Knowledge of Apple device management using Jamf Pro.
Exposure to identity and access management platforms, such as Okta.
Experience supporting cloud-hosted SaaS applications.
Familiarity with ITIL practices (ITIL Foundation certification desirable).
Understanding of formal IT change management processes, including planning, risk assessment, and implementing changes through CAB governance.
PRINCE2 Foundation or Practitioner certification.
PowerShell or Bash scripting and automation skills.
What We Offer:
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job. Applications may close sooner than stated.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.
Our goal is to enable the analysis of anything, anywhere, by anyone.
We have developed the world’s first and only nanopore DNA and RNA sequencing platform. It’s a new generation of sequencing technology — the only one to offer: scalability to portable or ultra-high throughput formats, real-time data delivery, and the ability to elucidate rich biological data.
We are aiming to disrupt the way that biological analyses are currently performed, and open up new applications that have a profound, positive impact on society.
Our devices offer real-time analysis, for rapid insights, in fully scalable formats — from pocket to population scale — and the technology is being used in more than 100 countries worldwide.
Founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, the company now employs more than 600 people from multiple disciplines including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
