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Senior IT Engineer / Technical Consultant

Employer
Sanderson Government & Defence
Location
London
Salary
£40000 - £50000 per annum
Closing date
5 Aug 2019

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Clearance Level
SC
Sector
Central Government
Job Type
Permanent

Senior IT Engineer/IT Technical Consultant

  • Location: Newbury & Client site in London
  • Salary: £45,000
  • Clearance: SC Cleared (If successful the customer with process and fund your NPPV3 Clearance
  • Must have own transport available for business use and a current driving licence (E)

Our client is seeking a permanent senior IT specialist to support their extensive London customer base. The focus will be on providing input into the design process, implementing systems from an approved design and ensuring smooth transition into service with the customer.

You will be expected to focus mainly on virtualised Windows domain architectures, either deployed on-premises, or into cloud environments such as AWS or Azure. Evidence of experience of VMware ESXi/vCenter is essential; experience of Hyper-V would be an advantage. A working knowledge of LINUX/UNIX systems, networking and automation technologies such as Jenkins, Puppet and Ansible would similarly be an advantage.

Expertise and Key Skills

  • Infrastructure Solutions Design input and Implementation, including stakeholder management
  • Comfortable dealing with all involved employees, from intern to director level
  • Experienced in working under-pressure, to tight deadlines, and coping with high temperature/highly political situations that can arise during critical projects
  • Excellent personal skills, experienced in explaining technical IT concepts and ideas to non-technical stakeholders etc.
  • Self-motivated with a desire to expand your knowledge and expertise.
  • Mentoring and helping more junior team members
  • Creation of technical documentation including High Level Design, Server Build and Configuration and Server/System Test Plans

SME-Level Knowledge and Experience of the Following

  • Server design and implementation/configuration (E)
  • iSCSI & FC SAN design, building, testing/optimisation and administration (E)
  • Windows server 2012 and later (E)
  • VMware vSphere/ESX and Hyper-V hypervisors, (E)
  • Computer hardware installation (E)
  • Server diagnosis build and repair (E)
  • Debug and log analysis, including cluster logs and network traces (E)
  • Windows Powershell scripting (E)
  • LAN/WAN networking and various related protocols (E)
  • Active Directory (D)
  • Microsoft Windows failover clustering (D)
  • Automation technologies such as Jenkins, Puppet and Ansible (D)
  • Storage, storage virtualisation, and Storage Area Networks (D)
  • System migration activities (P2V), (V2V), (V2V, including AWZ and Azure) (D)

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