IT Infrastructure Engineer / Specialist - Azure/ Windows Server - Derbyshire - £300p/d 3 months Contract - Initially Home Based
Technologies you will work with in this position - Azure Cloud Azure AD Windows Servers 2012 & 2016, SCCM, VMware, Hyper-V, Office 365, Active Directory, Hosted Cloud Datacentre, Storage Infrastructure, Physical & Virtual Server Estates.
Established and well know company are seeking an Azure Cloud Infrastructure Specialist/Engineer for their Infrastructure Services team
Working as a key player alongside a broader team you will support the Infrastructure Services Team in the development and implementation of Azure, departmental and business wide service improvements, plus the input of planning and technical remediation initiatives.
Including a mix of BAU and Project work, your key tasks will involve planning, scheduling and implementing all Change Requests and Maintenance activities for the team as well as on-going Root Cause Analysis.
Your Key technical expertise will include
Windows Servers 2012 & 2016
MS Azure Cloud Experience
MS Office 365, Active Directory, SQL, Exchange
Virtualisation, VMware, or Hyper-V
Storage Infrastructure, SAN / NAS
Hosted Cloud Datacenter, Physical & Virtual Server Estates
SCCM / SCOM,
Dynamics 365 (Ideal but not essential)
Your key requirements will include:
Experience in the BAU, Shared Services or Commercial IT Services operation
Confident in fault diagnosis across technologies & platforms and experience of rectifying faults within strict SLAs
Extensive experience in the monitoring and maintenance of internal IT servers, systems platforms of servers and virtual environments
Configuring and maintaining monitoring tools and systems
Knowledge and experience across maintenance tool sets (e.g. SCCM, WSUS)
Experience operating in a change control and configuration management environment
Ability to competently act as the technical point contact of escalation for incidents
The ability to Investigate potential future technologies and solutions that may benefit the IT and hosting, storage or operating system estate
Experience of using Project Management, Time Recording and Service Management Toolsets (e.g. ServiceNow, Remedy, LANDesk, WorkFront, etc)
Experience using and reporting with enterprise grade data analysis tools.
Experience of managing and maintaining anti-virus servers and solutions.
Windows Server experience or certification in areas including AD, Group Policy
Knowledge of backup technologies (e.g. OSSV, DPM, Netbackup, Backup Exec)
Professional Certifications or equivalent in the relevant field of expertise
MCSE, MCSA
Certified Azure Administrator
VMware
HyperV
ITIL
For the successful candidate the client will offer a secure and stable working environment, an excellent salary and benefits package and a progressive career path.