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IT Infrastructure Specialist

Metier Recruitment
Posted 9 hours ago, valid for 24 days
Location

Leeds, West Yorkshire LS14 1DZ

Salary

£40,000 - £48,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The IT Infrastructure Specialist position in Leeds offers a salary range of £50K to £70K.
  • The role involves developing, maintaining, and supporting the global IT infrastructure for over 9,000 staff across more than 100 locations.
  • Candidates should possess significant experience with Microsoft 365, Windows Servers, and virtualization technologies like VMWare.
  • Key responsibilities include managing cloud migrations, responding to help desk inquiries, and performing preventative maintenance checks.
  • The ideal candidate will have a proactive approach to optimizing infrastructure and ensuring compliance with SOX controls.

IT Infrastructure Specialist - Leeds c50K - £70K

Our client is looking for an IT Infrastructure Specialist to join their team. The role is to develop, maintain and support the global IT Infrastructure supporting 9,000+ staff and 100+ locations. This position entails support and development of the company’s global infrastructure. Key components include, servers, the wide area and local networks, Wifi, Windows desktop, unified communications and cloud (M365, Azure AD, OneDrive, Azure Arc, EndPoint Manager and Defender ATP). You will be required to proactively improve, optimise, converge, and develop the infrastructure with future capacity in mind, managing multiple projects and responsibilities. You will be required to provide advice and guidance on maintaining the cloud, server, network and security environments, to plan and instigate hardware and software upgrades as required, and to ensure that planned processes have been completed satisfactorily. SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Principal Duties, Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

? Monitor, support and maintain the global on-premise and cloud infrastructures.

? Manage the ongoing global migration from on-premise IT infrastructure into a cloud managed environment.

? Develop, manage, and implement infrastructure projects to deliver business wide initiatives.

? Respond to 2nd / 3rd line Help Desk calls and manage such items through to resolution and other regular support activities and provide technical cover and mentoring.

? Perform regular preventative maintenance checks, check logs and servers to ensure they are properly patched and implement corrective actions to resolve any issues.

Skills required include:

? Enterprise working knowledge and support of the Microsoft 365 environment and Admin centre (Microsoft cloud technologies, M365, AzureAD, Defender ATP, EndPoint Manager, OneDrive, etc).

? Excellent understanding of Microsoft Technologies, Windows Servers (2012, 2016 & 2019) Active Directory and Group Policies.

? Comprehensive Experience with VMWare, vCentre, & ESXi.

? Good understanding of Storage, SAN, NAS & Backup Technologies.

Additional Desirables:

? Hands-on experience of installing, supporting and managing NetApp Storage solutions.

? Azure cloud landing zones, networking & automation.

? Experience of Druva Cloud, Veritas Backup Exec and Veeam Backup technologies.

? Working knowledge of the Microsoft EndPoint Management solutions (Defender, InTune,) etc.

? Implementation and management of Active Directory/Group Policy management within a corporate environment.

Please send a CV if you would like more information on this IT Infrastructure Specialist vacancy.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.