Description
Position: INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER - OUTSIDE IR35 CONTRACT ROLE- REF 863
Role: Outside IR35 contractor required for 3 month rolling contract. Leeds.
Spec:
• Location:
Leeds
• RATE: £375 to £400+ PER DAY (outside of IR35)
• Free on-site parking
• On call is one in every 4/5 but extremely limited and remote
• Education:
Commercial exposure required
• Qualifications:
ITIL and or MCSE / IT Security desirable but not essential
• Strong evidential exposure to wide and varied infrastructure technology including full MS tech stack including Networking, Security, Virtualisation (VMWARE), Telephony, Storage, Backup, Physical kit all Windows. Plus Azure and Office
365 would be beneficial.
Job Purpose: Provide a high level of service support and maintain the group systems and infrastructure, with the responsibility of identifying and implementing new developments, which are aligned with the organisation’s strategy.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
• Deliver systems and requirements in-line with the IS strategy and the key strategic objectives.
• Ensuring the integrity of IT infrastructures.
• Maintaining lights on all Security Toolkit Infrastructure.
• Supporting various toolsets SIEM, IDPS, and Malware Protection.
• Tuning and policy enablement, features and enhancements as required in response to Security Incidents and general enhancements requested.
• Troubleshooting potential impact of security tooling on business applications as required.
• Deliver new features or Security Tools.
• Response to and following of core IT Service Management Principles.
• Serve as a resource and technical expert within IT Security to the Head of Information Systems and the wider business.
• Assist in the training of department members, end users and new employees.
• Develop and update documents pertaining to system or software procedures, requirements and changes.
• Perform maintenance and backup functions for key systems. Resolving issues of diverse scope by reviewing and analysing identifiable factors.
• Collaborate with the IS department and key end users by conducting requirement and needs analysis.
• Conduct testing of systems when required, to ensure efficiency and accuracy, using the appropriate software tools.
• Implement and maintain system security and data confidentiality, integrity and availability across the network.
• Design, develop, modify, and maintain infrastructure solutions ensuring that the highest level of availability is always achieved.
• Administer, maintain, develop and implement policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of critical systems and issues related to applications support and availability.
• Work with other department members to facilitate the sharing of information between various departments and systems.
• Work with other systems analysts in the design, development and modification of enterprise solutions.
• Analyze and assess business needs and deliver solutions to address those needs while optimising performance and scalability.
• Provide accurate and timely resolutions to challenging technical problems while representing the team in a positive, professional manner.
• Provide support to users during normal business hours and when required in accordance with the on-call rota.
• Provide support by both telephone and user visits where appropriate to ensure quick resolution of software and hardware problems, in line with department SLA’s.
• Install, configure, support, troubleshoot and document all areas of the infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software problems for all supported platforms within the business.
• Test, install and configure new hardware and software solutions.
• Log all calls into the service desk application to ensure that statistics and analysis of all calls can be made.
• Assess and advise the Head of Information Systems on the potential benefit to the organisation, of specific system hardware or software developments or products.
• Ensure that users are kept informed of the status of any outstanding calls.
• Carry out project management, through its entirety, of new and existing system implementations and upgrades.
• Carry out 'ad-hoc' tasks when requested to assist with the security and smooth running of IT systems and to ensure a high level of support for users.
• Contribute to and perform according to the required…