Infrastructure Specialist
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Manchester, is currently looking to recruit an Infrastructure Specialist until the 31st of March 2025 with potential to extend on a rate of £564/day (Inside IR35). This role will be predominantly remote based with the occasional requirement to be onsite.
Responsibilities:
– Helping ensure infrastructure services are integrated, delivered, and operating as required.
– Reviewing the systems designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
– Understand information security and designing solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.
– Working with and supporting third parties in providing infrastructure services
– Maintaining dependable IT infrastructure and networking that is always available.
– Troubleshooting problems by running diagnostics, prioritising, and assessing the impact of issues, and documenting problems and resolutions.
– Working independently, having a high level of discipline to manage and take ownership of technical issues.
– Being able to analyse complex technical problems and advise appropriate solutions, given sometimes conflicting requirements.
– Being able to communicate highly complex technical issues and risks to non-technical business stakeholders external to the team, both verbally and in writing.
– Working with the Infrastructure team to build the security of new and existing infrastructure to protect information from unauthorised access, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction.
– Providing technical expertise and input into policies, guidance, and governance forums
– Contributing to problem solving discussions at cross-department technical and enterprise architecture forums, identifying best-fit solutions
– Supporting development and implementation of business continuity planning, disaster recovery management, risk assessment and mitigation to cyber, data and security threats.
– Having a good understanding of cyber security landscape, horizon scanning and proactive education of latest developments.
– May be required undertake any other duties at the request of the line manager which are commensurate with the role, including project work, absence cover or new initiatives.
Essential Skills:
– Microsoft Certified
– Significant and demonstrable expertise with PowerShell and scripting.
– Significant expertise and knowledge of Windows Server and Microsoft Active Directory platform.
– In-depth working knowledge of Microsoft platforms with a focus on Intune, Microsoft Exchange Online, Office 365 support technologies, and Azure Active Directory.
– Strong experience configuring anti-malware, intrusion detection, firewalls and vulnerability scanning systems and network security.
– Extensive experience and working knowledge with Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service platform and hybrid infrastructure; including planning, configuration, optimisation and deployment
– Extensive experience of patching, monitoring and infrastructure change management of business continuity.
Desirable Skills:
– Experience with SQL Server and always on availability groups.
– Experience configuring office telecommunications
– Strong and demonstrable VMWare vSphere skills with a proven track record working with a large, complex infrastructure environment
– Microsoft Azure certification
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch
Responsibilities:
– Helping ensure infrastructure services are integrated, delivered, and operating as required.
– Reviewing the systems designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
– Understand information security and designing solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.
– Working with and supporting third parties in providing infrastructure services
– Maintaining dependable IT infrastructure and networking that is always available.
– Troubleshooting problems by running diagnostics, prioritising, and assessing the impact of issues, and documenting problems and resolutions.
– Working independently, having a high level of discipline to manage and take ownership of technical issues.
– Being able to analyse complex technical problems and advise appropriate solutions, given sometimes conflicting requirements.
– Being able to communicate highly complex technical issues and risks to non-technical business stakeholders external to the team, both verbally and in writing.
– Working with the Infrastructure team to build the security of new and existing infrastructure to protect information from unauthorised access, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction.
– Providing technical expertise and input into policies, guidance, and governance forums
– Contributing to problem solving discussions at cross-department technical and enterprise architecture forums, identifying best-fit solutions
– Supporting development and implementation of business continuity planning, disaster recovery management, risk assessment and mitigation to cyber, data and security threats.
– Having a good understanding of cyber security landscape, horizon scanning and proactive education of latest developments.
– May be required undertake any other duties at the request of the line manager which are commensurate with the role, including project work, absence cover or new initiatives.
Essential Skills:
– Microsoft Certified
– Significant and demonstrable expertise with PowerShell and scripting.
– Significant expertise and knowledge of Windows Server and Microsoft Active Directory platform.
– In-depth working knowledge of Microsoft platforms with a focus on Intune, Microsoft Exchange Online, Office 365 support technologies, and Azure Active Directory.
– Strong experience configuring anti-malware, intrusion detection, firewalls and vulnerability scanning systems and network security.
– Extensive experience and working knowledge with Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service platform and hybrid infrastructure; including planning, configuration, optimisation and deployment
– Extensive experience of patching, monitoring and infrastructure change management of business continuity.
Desirable Skills:
– Experience with SQL Server and always on availability groups.
– Experience configuring office telecommunications
– Strong and demonstrable VMWare vSphere skills with a proven track record working with a large, complex infrastructure environment
– Microsoft Azure certification
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch
