Senior Infrastructure Engineer - DV

Job Title: Senior Infrastructure Engineer - DV
Location: Salisbury (On site)
Contract Duration: 12 Months
Daily Rate: £569/day (Umbrella - Maximum)
IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Security Clearance: DV & Sole Uk National

The Role:

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will provide advice and direction on digital infrastructure technical design, implementation, and support of infrastructure technologies. This role will be supporting the running and development of systems, for example they will be working with the current Senior Infrastructure Engineer to; carryout hardware capability refreshes, upgrades, and developments, manage user accounts, configure and install software, and support users and wider project tasking.

Responsibilities:

• Scope out potential solutions with users for digital infrastructure issues and assess the effort and cost involved with implementation.
• Produce documentation to be used in proposals, following standard project processes and procedures
• Evaluate hardware and software (within server, network, storage or desktop environments) to ensure that the test and integration of new products (both hardware and software) for successful incorporation into program infrastructure
• Provide administration, support, and enhancement of the digital environment for example:
  • User accounts
  • Control the network access integrity
  • Manage the data, in terms of space allocated to data
  • SAN optimization
• Provide first to last line support to ensure the right support
• Be aware of the relevant timescales and to respond, fix or escalate according to the limits set out within that structure
• Accurately assess time to complete tasks to ensure operational and user success

Essential:

• A thorough knowledge of Microsoft Windows Workstation and Server deployment, system management, and desktop support.
• Experience in the management and deployment of Windows Domain Services, including Active Directory services and account management, Group Policy management, DHCP and DNS services.
• Microsoft Windows patch management using WSUS.
• Administration of Hyper-V virtualization systems.
• Management of Microsoft SQL Servers and Failover clustering.
• Documentation Skills, with the ability to produce documents for use by colleagues.
• Sound knowledge of the latest developments and future strategy for their technology area.
• A "can do" attitude.
• Self-paced, motivated, and capable of independent problem solving and fault finding.
• 1st to last line support as part of a small team.

Desirable:

• Advanced Infrastructure skills covering administration.
• Fault finding/diagnosis and fix, File/Print Clusters.
• Enterprise Thin Client environment including SmartCards and PKI.
• Messaging (Microsoft Exchange Server and Database Availability Groups (DAG).
• Hardware build and evaluation experience.
• Experienced in the deployment and management of Trellix (McAfee) security systems.
• Linux server system management, ideally Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Network communications and routing (ideally Cisco), and VOIP/VTC solutions.

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant

CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources