Windows Engineer – SC – Remote

Basingstoke, Hampshire
Lorien

Windows EngineerRemote (Location Flexible)Contract Inside IR35 Do you specialize in the support and implementation of Windows in enterprise environments? Do you have an aptitude for problem solving, and technical leadership during Windows infrastructure migration projects? Do you want to work with a Customer and help support IT services that are critical to the economic UK’s prosperity? Do you want to work with committed people, deliver service excellence to customers and maintain high levels of customer satisfaction? Our client are looking for engineers to join our customer’s Data Centre Exit team. As part of a small team within a large Data Centre Exit Programme, your role will be to work client-side to deliver migration support services and to make changes to Windows platforms hosting IT services critical to our Customer. Key responsibilities include –

• Backup and restore of system images and volumes,
• Stop start services,
• Removal and clean-up of tooling
• Map storage volumes to VMs and map VLANs to VMs
• Revert the service to the source location
• Quiesce the service in the source location

You will be empowered to identify better ways of doing things and to share your ideas. You will be supported by a Service implementation Manager, who will look after your wellbeing and ensure you receive work that befits your skills. Most of the project work is expected to be in normal hours, but you could also be offered to work out of hours.Your experience –

• At least 5-10 years’ experience of supporting (2nd to 3rd Line) Windows servers and platforms within large scale and infrastructures (1000+ servers).
• Significant knowledge of Windows domain infrastructure.
• Technical leadership during projects and live service events.
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal communication.
• Have a proven problem-solving ability.
• Proactive approach to personal workload management.
• Awareness of the ITIL Service Management framework and specifically incident and change management.

Your knowledge/skills – Essential skills:

• Significant Windows Server experience, ideally in Windows Server 2008, 2012 and 2016.
• In depth knowledge of Windows Domain Infrastructure including Active Directory, Keytabs, DNS, DHCP and Public Key Infrastructure.
• Administrative scripting utilising Visual Basic and/or Powershell.

Desirable Skills:

• Understanding of Clustering, SCCM and Enterprise Management monitoring and software delivery toolsets.
• Understanding of Virtualization principles, including VMWare and Hyper-V.
• Understanding of Cloud computing principles, including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
• Knowledge of Bladelogic toolset.
• Knowledge of CA IT Client Manager toolset.

Non-technical skills and experience –

• Remote employment
• You need to be willing to work OOH and at weekends on a regular basis
• You need to have good customer communication skills
• You need to be willing to work to project committed timescales
• You need to be a team player. Patience and a sense of humour will be beneficial!

If this Windows Engineer role is of interest to you – please apply below!

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age