Infrastructure and Network Engineer

Reach2 Academy Trust, Burton-On-Trent, DE13 9TQ

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible - pending satisfactory completion of safer recruitment checks

• Closing date

  31 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  9 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • IT support
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £34,900.00 - £39,682.00 Annually (Actual) Reach 2 Pay scales, Scale Points 23-28, 37.5 hours per week, 52 weeks per year - Location: Remote + Occasional Travel

Infrastructure and Network Engineer job summary

Join REAch2, the UK’s largest primary-only academy trust. We’re looking for an experienced Infrastructure and Network Engineer to support with network design, security, and cloud solutions across 62 schools.

Responsibilities:

• Manage LAN/WAN, wireless, and cloud infrastructure.
• Act as escalation point for complex issues.
• Implement cybersecurity best practices and compliance.
• Support IT projects and upgrades.

Requirements:

• Strong networking, security, and cloud expertise.
• Experience with firewalls, servers, and multi-site environments.
• Relevant IT certifications (Microsoft, CompTIA, Sophos preferred).
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel.

Benefits:

• Remote-first role with travel to REAch2 schools by agreement.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Be part of a forward-thinking Trust.

Apply today and help shape the digital future of education.

For further information about the role come please contact the recruitment team via recruitment@reach2.org

Why Work with REAch2 Academy Trust?

Join REAch2 Academy Trust, one of the UK's largest primary academy trusts, with a mission to unlock the potential of every child, regardless of their background. Here’s why joining our team can be an exciting and fulfilling career choice:

• Excellence & Development: We prioritise high standards and offer extensive professional development and career growth opportunities.

• Supportive & Collaborative: Be part of a strong, collaborative community of over 60 schools where every voice is valued, and best practices are shared.

• Well-being Focus: We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer robust well-being support for all staff.

• Diversity & Inclusion: We celebrate diversity and believe that varied perspectives strengthen our schools.

• Innovation & Impact: Bring creativity to the classroom and make a real difference in children’s lives.

• Making a difference: Working with REAch2 means contributing to something bigger than yourself. You’ll be helping to shape the lives of young learners, making a meaningful impact on communities and future generations.

Join us to grow your career, collaborate with passionate educators, and make a lasting impact on future generations.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support your career and well-being:

• Generous Annual Leave: healthy work-life balance.

• Professional Development: Access diverse CPD and training opportunities to grow your skills.

• Flexible & Family-Friendly: We are committed to supporting flexible working and requests will be considered on an individual basis, including options such as part time, term-time, home working, and other options that work for both the employee and the Trust.  

• Exclusive Discounts: Benefit from Blue Light Card offers and employee perks.

• Well-being Support: Receive comprehensive well-being and employee assistance for you and your family.

Join REAch2 for a rewarding career with great benefits!

Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection 

At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.  

We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.

For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.

All information is stored securely, and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy. 

The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.  

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Reach2 Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Reach2 Academy Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/reach2-academy-trust

REAch2 Academy Trust is the largest primary-only academy trust in the country. It’s a growing charitable organisation currently supporting 60 primary academies across England.

We are not like other trusts and like to support and create individual schools where the SLT have a high level of autonomy. Our academies serve individual communities and so need to be individual themselves. Our schools work within clusters, sharing best practice to foster greater educational aspirations and higher standards.

As REAch2 is a growing organisation, we are always looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our existing and new schools to make them the best that they can be.

We have opportunities not only for qualified teachers and support staff, but also for those looking to train with school centered initial teacher training (SCITT) programmes or those looking to work in the public sector support positions in IT, HR, Finance, Estates/Facilities, Catering and more.

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