Our Defence Client is looking for two LBS Engineers to be based 5 days per week onsite in Oakdale, South Wales. This would be on an initial 6 month contract which has been deemed inside IR35. Please note an active SC/DV clearance is required for this position.
The LBS infrastructure is made up of Microsoft Windows Servers and other Microsoft software applications and toolsets on a virtualised Windows Hyper-V platform.
Essential skills, qualifications and experience:
In order to deliver this service, it is essential that individuals have a number of technical competencies, including:
* Significant hands-on experience in:
* The installation, configuration, maintenance, administration and support of Windows server operating systems, especially Windows Server 2016, especially within a virtualised environment.
* The design, configuration and administration of Active Directory, preferably in a secure environment.
* Working as part of a team to deliver a capability as well as work on their own to design and implement as per high level requirements.
* Must be able to produce High and Low Level documentation as well as build instructions.
* Produce work packages and report on progress.
* Must be able to provide when required, support to Live Services on resolving issues.
* Several years’ experience in some of the following areas:
* Design, configuration, implementation and administration of PKI, DNS, DHCP, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business (experience of Unified Comms from other vendors considered a bonus), WSUS,SQL, Trend (or similar AV products), Proxy, Veeam.
* Experience in some of the following areas:
* The installation, configuration, maintenance, administration and support of a virtual server infrastructure, based on Windows Hyper-V virtualization
* Configuring and administering the backup and restore of Windows based systems.
* Patching Windows based systems and associated software.
* Configuring peripheral devices.
* Microsoft Windows client configuration based on Windows 10.
* Experience working with PowerShell.
* Competency in the Microsoft Office suite of products.