Systems Engineer — Server, Client and Network Operations for NATO with security clearance

A multinational defence organisation needs an engineer for the day-to-day of itsinformation and communications systems the servers the end-user devices the network servicesunderneath them and the discipline of keeping a secure estate patched and documented.

What you would be doing

• Configuring and managing systems network and end-user devices day to day.
• Providing technical support to the people who use them.
• Deploying and monitoring operating system and application security fixes across the estate.
• Writing and maintaining the technical documentation and standard operating instructions thatlet someone else do the same work.
• Running the central antivirus solution and keeping devices compliant with it.
• Troubleshooting infrastructure problems and carrying out regular maintenance.

What you would bring

• At least two years implementing and maintaining end systems inside a large organisation.
• Extensive hands-on configuration of both hardware and software.
• Virtualisation in production VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Windows environments at scale: servers and clients across distributed sites.
• Network infrastructure management and the enterprise services that sit on it directoryname resolution and the rest of what quietly holds a business up.
• Collaboration platforms such as Exchange and enterprise messaging.
• Scripting in PowerShell or Python to automate deployment and routine administration.
• Enough database and metadata understanding to configure systems that have to interoperate.
• The independence to solve a problem rather than escalate it.