Infrastructure Consultant

Infrastructure Consultant
Roles location is Peterborough or London. £55-70k
This role is hybrid - average 2 days a week in the office.
We are looking for a skilled consultant / senior Engineer in VMware vSphere 6.7+ and Windows 2019+ (including building not just administering).
This role comes with an on call requirement - 1 week in 4. This is financially compensated.
- Server Management, including Citrix, Virtualisation, Active Directory, Group Policy, Domain Name System (DNS), File/Print Servers, PKI infrastructure and the Windows OS family.
- Support, install, maintain, and troubleshoot server, storage and related software for data centre infrastructure.
- Monitor server and storage infrastructure for failures and performance problems.
- Administer the corporate back up system.
- Work with internal business units to research, evaluate, test, pilot, document, implement and transition into support teams new software and hardware.
- Respond to incidents logged in the Incident Management system and provide end users with a technical solution within Service Level Agreements.
- Escalate and work with vendors when required
- Provide technical assistance and co-ordinate with business owners to complete project requirements and act as point of technical escalation and expertise.
- Implement and administer scheduled tasks.
- Identify and escalate service issues accordingly.
- Verify, approve, recommend and deploy changes via the ITIL change management process.
- Act as a role model for technical competence, helpfulness, facilitation of learning and teamwork.
- Proactively maintain and develop technical accreditations, knowledge, skills and experience through vendor contact, industry sources, formalised training and development plan.
- Work with Internal IT consultants to better understand issues and solutions.
Essential
- At least 5 years' experience in a similar SLA driven support role
- Proven customer service skills
- Proven experience in supporting complex server and storage infrastructure, delivering projects and associated changes.
- Industry recognised qualifications in relevant areas of current Microsoft Server operating systems
- Solid understanding of virtualisation technologies
- Solid understanding of server, storage and backup technologies
- Solid understanding of Cloud technologies
- Solid understanding of Citrix Workplace - Virtual Apps and Desktops
- Knowledge of IT security concepts and best practice
- ITIL Service Operations Framework (Incident, Change, Problem and Major Incident Management)
Desirable
- Hands on knowledge of VMware environments - 6.7+
- Hands on knowledge of SAN storage
- Hands on knowledge of Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server
- Hands on knowledge of Azure
- Hands on knowledge of Terraform
- Knowledge of Server Hardware
- PowerShell scripting
- Microsoft Clustering
- Public Cloud exposure
- Exposure to Linux OS (i.e. Debian /Ubuntu)
- Understanding of Networking fundamentals
Personal Attributes
- Strong team player
- Good communication skills, verbal and written up to and including C level
- Punctual and reliable
- Positive, enthusiastic and supportive individual
- Ability to take ownership of and progress incidents to resolution, or to identify when escalation is necessary
- Ability to work under pressure
- Interpersonal skills including listening, building rapport, establishing empathy whilst demonstrating awareness of internal and external issues in a calm and polite manner.
- Willingness to travel to Client based sites and data centres and operate outside of core hours as and when required.
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