Main characteristics
- Location
- Slough, Berkshire
- Company
- Innovate Recruitment Ltd
- Salary
- £40000 - £45000/annum
- Employment type
- Permanent
- Category
- Engineering
Job summary
Senior IT Infrastructure EngineerLocation: Berkshire
Salary: £40,000 to £45,000
Our client, a market leader within the Defence Intelligence and Communications industry, is looking for a Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer to assist with the day-to-day procedures, management, and support of local IT infrastructure.
Our client specialises in delivering essential, tactical communication solutions crucial for decision-making in the most demanding scenarios. With a wealth of experience spanning generations, they excel in mission-critical, multi-domain communications, command and control, and cybersecurity.
Responsibilities:
* Overseeing daily IT support requests and issues to uphold exceptional customer service within the support team.
* Supervising, maintaining, and enhancing core infrastructure, such as networks, servers, and systems, in accordance with compliance and certification standards such as NIST, ISO27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, etc.
* Identifying and resolving technical faults and issues.
* Delivering projects to improve IT services and systems.
* Ensuring strong IT security, data protection, and compliance measures.
* Updating Backup, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans, and conducting annual live testing of these processes.
* Staying informed about technological advancements, offering recommendations for necessary technological solutions, and planning the implementation of technology upgrades.
* Developing and presenting proposals for IT improvements and project requirements, preparing an annual budget for financial review, and supplying budget information for local IT spending requirements
Skills and qualifications required:
* Experience developing and managing IT support services.
* ITIL frameworks and service management knowledge.
* Office 365, Windows Server, and Azure experience.
* Virtualisation (VMware Hyper-V).
* Networking TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, firewalls, switching.
* M365 / Microsoft Exchange, Intune, Autopilot, SCCM.
* Bachelors degree in Information Technology/Information Systems/Business etc. or equivalent experience.
* Must be eligible to obtain SC level security clearance.
Working model:
* 4 days onsite 1 day WFH