Senior Technical Consultant, Infrastructure

5 days ago


Reading, United Kingdom Carrington Recruitment Solutions Ltd Full time

**IT Infrastructure Manager, Senior Technical Infrastructure Consultant, SQL, Azure, AWS, Partially Remote, Partially Reading - Please read in full to ensure you are comfortable with the entire job description**

Senior Technical Infrastructure Consultant required to work for a Professional Services company based in Reading. However, due to Covid-19, this will be mainly remote but you HAVE to be able to travel into the Reading office every now and again (currentlytwice a month but this is likely to increase to maybe once a week).

This role would suit an all-round hands IT Manager, IT Leader or IT Team Leader as you will definitely be getting your hands dirty with technology, but also inheriting a team of 3 people. We need you to have solid IT Infrastructure skills and experiencewith the Microsoft technology stack including Azure, Office 365 and SQL. Also, exposure to IT Security would be a huge bonus. Like I said, this would suit an all-rounder who likes a bit of variety.

Attitude and communication skills are absolute key to this role. We want an energetic person who is enthused by technology and has good leadership skills. Read on for more details

**Ideal background**:

- Likely to have experience at IT Manager level, with full responsibility for all the IT infrastructure within an organisation.
- Used to working in a structured and methodical manner.
- Comfortable communicating with client staff and colleagues at all levels.
- Capable of expressing recommendations under scrutiny and explaining them if challenged.
- Able to undertake occasional business travel in the UK and overseas.
- Happy to work with internal technology as well as supporting technology for clients (so basically, as a technical consultant).
- Rather than 'I used to do that’ or 'I have 3rd party companies that do that’, they want you to be hands-on and have current hands-on capabilities when it comes to IT Infrastructure support and IT Security.

**Technical requirements and professional qualifications**:

- Windows Server, SQL Server & Microsoft Exchange implementation, and support experience (all current versions).
- Windows implementation and support experience (all current versions).
- Microsoft 365 implementation and support experience.
- Hands on experience of virtualisation technologies.
- Hands on experience of cloud technologies (MS Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Hands on experience of configuring IT security infrastructure (anti-virus/malware, firewalls etc.).
- Proven people management experience. Sourcing and managing IT staff for projects and BAU.
- Operational service support leadership experience.
- ITIL Certifications (desirable).
- Prince II or other project management skills/certification (desirable).
- Hands on knowledge of databases and scripting or other software development experience (desirable).



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