Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description

This role entails provisioning, deploying, and sustaining systems to align with business needs and will utilise your knowledge, communication skills, and experience to provide our customers, both internal and external, with outstanding service and support.Client DetailsA certified B-Corp Organisations in the UK.Description

• Play a pivotal role in the design, build and management of the on-premise servers (Windows), virtualisation (Hyper-V) and our cloud infrastructure (Azure). This includes working on both physical and virtual hardware.
• Ensuring scalability, reliability and security of our infrastructure and collaborating with cross functional teams to meet business requirements.
• Monitoring and maintain the performance and availability of our infrastructure including regular maintenance such as patching and updates.
• Implementing and maintaining security measures to protect our infrastructure including ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Leading infrastructure projects from initial scoping to completion.
• Ensuring our network and infrastructure documentation is grown and kept up to date for team reference and audit.
• Reporting on infrastructure performance, incidents, and improvements.
• Ensuring day to day BAU tickets are picked up in a timely manner.

Profile

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience with infrastructure including Virtualisation (Hyper-V or similar), physical servers (windows) and storage.
• Proficient Windows Server 2012 - 2019, AD, DNS, DHCP, Failover manager etc.
• Demonstrable experience with implementation of backup maintenance (Veeam or similar)
• Experience with on prem data centre maintenance and management.
• Demonstrable Azure Management (CMs, NSG rules, Storage accounts etc) to be able toe effectively contribute to gradual migration of our environments to the cloud.
• Excellent demonstrable hands on experience configuring and maintaining network devices such as Firewalls (Palo alto/Cicso ASA), Switches, WiFi and Routers.
• DR Implementation and Testing.
• In depth working knowledge of networking principals and technologies such as VLAN, CIDR, LLDP, VRRP, SNP etc.
• Hardware and software patching/firmware upgrades
• Asset Management
• The ability to create and maintain technical documentation with a good attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal ad written communication skills and the ability to deal with staff at all levels of the business along with being able to explain requirements to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• The ability to work on your own initiative but fully recognise the importance of being a part of and leading a wider cohesive team.
• Be able to prioritise and organise your workload to meet deadlines.
• Ownership of project work with the ability to work through scoping a solution through to implementation and maintenance.

Desirable

• Professional certifications such as CCNA/CCNP/MCSA/AZ-700/900 etc
• Demonstrable experience with Microsoft Dynamics
• Demonstrable Experience with Power BI
• Jira/Confluence Experience.

Job Offer

• Free gym access if you are Head Office based or subsidised national gym memberships if you are based elsewhere.
• Nursery Vouchers, Cycle to work scheme and Travel loans
• Medigold employee support, Free Flu Jabs, online private GP service and a premium subscription to Calm, the wellbeing app
• A supportive, entrepreneurial working environment that fosters collaboration.
• Training, development, coaching and mentoring plans including our Leadership Academy, job specific accreditations and higher education opportunities
• Hybrid working opportunities with time in the office including breakfast Mondays and dog friendly Fridays.
• Financial benefits include yearly bonus scheme, access to Wagestream and employee share options