Job Description
Infrastructure Manager - Hybrid- £72,000 plus 10% bonus
My client is looking for a Infrastructure Manager as their technology function is on a mission to deliver industry leading technology and data platforms .
The Manager will be responsible for leading a team of three infrastructure engineers and the technical implementation and maintenance of the organisation’s services and infrastructure, encompassing both on-premise and cloud environments.
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.
This is a hybrid role and will require travel to their Head Office in London at least once per week; you will also be required to travel to all other client Locations, including field sites, as needed.
This is a full-time position and the successful applicant will be required to join the team’s shift pattern to ensure core business hours (8am – 6pm) are covered; you will also be expected to provide standby out-of-hours support on a rota basis.
Principle Accountability Areas:
* 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.
* 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 (CM’s, 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.