Company Description
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.
Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.
Job Description
This is an interesting and varied role where you will be responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining secure configurations, policies and updates across our server infrastructure. The role will allow you to develop your skills in areas such as technical change management, automation and secure IT operations.
The successful candidate will work within a wider team to maintain a strong security stance, applying security updates and other countermeasures to ensure the integrity of all IT services. Confident in deploying and operating a variety of systems to ensure that all environments are available, reliable, secure and able to meet the demands placed upon on it.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Being accountable for ensuring the infrastructure estate is suitably protected and up to date using tools such as SCCM, SCOM, inTune and other native update techniques to:
2. Identify and remediate known IT security vulnerabilities
3. Design and implement solutions to mitigate vulnerabilities identified as part of penetration results
4. Provide insight into the countermeasures PA should adopt
5. Work as a technical resource in security related projects
6. Review daily security bulletins for threats
7. Liaise with security colleagues and key vendors reviewing threat reports
8. Work with other disciplines such as Networks and SQL Admins to assist implementing appropriate controls.
9. Driving forward projects focussed on implementing new or updated IT security technologies and services alongside Technical Architects and Security Teams where appropriate
10. Supporting business critical systems including the diagnostic and intervening actions required to keep services available for virtual hosting, operating systems, infrastructure services and SaaS products
11. Assisting with Disaster Recovery planning and testing
12. Creating clear and concise reports as required to demonstrate the effectiveness of the environments in question
13. Providing technical support/input to team projects
14. Organising maintenance periods including the variety of changes that take place to keep the infrastructure current and available.
Qualifications
15. Strong knowledge of Windows operating systems, Azure, Office 365, Hyper-V, VMware and SaaS Backup Platforms
16. Experience in securing and protecting assets from threats that could compromise the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the environment
17. Good knowledge of general infrastructure services and applications such as directory services, Entra ID, SCCM, SCOM and inTune
18. Ability to understand audit requirements and supporting compliance by providing responses to security audits (such as Cyber Essentials)
19. Additional experience managing the hardware and software platforms associated with virtual technologies such as Cisco blades, HPe servers and NetApp would be beneficial
20. Demonstrable troubleshooting capability and capable of working under pressure
21. Ability to develop clear and concise documentation
22. A self-starter, happy to work in isolation or as part of a larger team and able to use your own initiative rather than always relying on direction from others
23. Appreciate the importance of a high availability and secure systems and infrastructure
24. Ability to communicate at all levels of an organisation with the ability to work effectively as part of a team
25. A keen interest in technology and the IT market
This role would require some weekend working and occasional on-call duties, so flexibility is required.
Additional Information
Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.
Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.
Find out more about Life at PA.
We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:
26. Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
27. 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
28. Generous company pension scheme
29. Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
30. Annual performance-based bonus
31. PA share ownership
32. Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
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