Infrastructure Engineer

Our Defence Client is looking for two LBS Engineers to be based 5 days per week onsite in Oakdale, South Wales. This would be on an initial 6 month contract which has been deemed inside IR35. Please note an active SC/DV clearance is required for this position.

The LBS infrastructure is made up of Microsoft Windows Servers and other Microsoft software applications and toolsets on a virtualised Windows Hyper-V platform.

Essential skills, qualifications and experience:

In order to deliver this service, it is essential that individuals have a number of technical competencies, including:

• Significant hands-on experience in:
• The installation, configuration, maintenance, administration and support of Windows server operating systems, especially Windows Server 2016, especially within a virtualised environment.
• The design, configuration and administration of Active Directory, preferably in a secure environment.
• Working as part of a team to deliver a capability as well as work on their own to design and implement as per high level requirements.
• Must be able to produce High and Low Level documentation as well as build instructions.
• Produce work packages and report on progress.
• Must be able to provide when required, support to Live Services on resolving issues.
• Several years’ experience in some of the following areas:
• Design, configuration, implementation and administration of PKI, DNS, DHCP, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business (experience of Unified Comms from other vendors considered a bonus), WSUS,SQL, Trend (or similar AV products), Proxy, Veeam.

• Experience in some of the following areas:
• The installation, configuration, maintenance, administration and support of a virtual server infrastructure, based on Windows Hyper-V virtualization
• Configuring and administering the backup and restore of Windows based systems.
• Patching Windows based systems and associated software.
• Configuring peripheral devices.
• Microsoft Windows client configuration based on Windows 10.
• Experience working with PowerShell.
• Competency in the Microsoft Office suite of products.