IT Infrastructure Engineer

IT Infrastructure Engineer

We are looking for a professional enthusiastic and flexible individual with experience of working in a busy office and remote environments. The candidate must have excellent communication skills able to work well within a team but also manage their own workload with good time management. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package.

Brand Addition is an exciting business to work for and has a leading position in the market of providing creative cost-effective branded products to some of the worlds most well-known brands. We operate a complex multi-site environment hosting many different systems which enables us to provide class leading solutions to some the worlds largest companies.

The Infrastructure Engineers role is to support the Group IT Infrastructure Manager in providing a 1st class Information Technology Platform for our internal staff and Customers to help manage our Virtual Environment which hosts a variety of Servers platforms running a variety of applications to maintain the existing server and network infrastructure implement approved changes and provide 3rd line IT Support to the business across several sites globally.

The ideal candidate must have excellent interpersonal skills great troubleshooting skills have an eye for attention to detail and the enthusiasm to learn and develop their skills further.

Responsibilities include

• Ensure the efficient and smooth running of the IT Infrastructure
• Establish and maintain processes for monitoring and maintaining server and network performance
• Establish and maintain processes for monitoring and maintaining server and network security
• To maintain our virtual environment (VMWare/Hyper-V/Azure)
• Maintain server and network infrastructure including installing updating Patching and producing supporting documentation
• Maintain Active Directory (Azure Hybrid) Group Policy DNS DHCP Exchange SQL Server etc
• Work with SQL Administrator to ensure optimal performance of database servers
• Ensure all processes for backups and disaster recovery are functioning
• Undertaking IT Projects as directed by the Group IT Infrastructure Manager
• 3rd line IT Support to the business.

Must have implementation and support experience

• Windows Server 2016 and above
• Virtualisation with VMware Hyper-V & Azure
• DHCP DNS NPS Active Directory Group Policy
• Microsoft O365 (Exchange Teams One drive SharePoint Defender In-Tune etc)
• Systems and Server backup Technologies
• IIS Server
• PowerShell
• Microsoft SQL Server Installation and Maintenance
• Experience working with SAN Technologies
• Experience working with backup technologies
• Good experience of managing firewalls switches APs and other network devices
• In-depth knowledge of networking and security including TCP/IP OSI model protocols and VLANs
• Knowledge of server performance and optimising configurations
• Experience of implementing industry standard security principles across the server and network environment
• Works well in a team and by themselves
• Excellent communication and organisational skills

Desirable

• Cisco WatchGuard and FortiGate switches and firewalls
• Veeam Backup & Replication
• Experience in Server and Network Hardening
• Experience working with managed XDR solutions
• Systems monitoring tool
• Experience supporting ISO27001 accreditation

Required Experience:

Senior IC