Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Manchester, is currently looking to recruit an Infrastructure Specialist until the 31st of March 2025 with potential to extend on a rate of £564/day (Inside IR35).
This role will be predominantly remote based with the occasional requirement to be onsite.
Responsibilities:
- Helping ensure infrastructure services are integrated, delivered, and operating as required.
- Reviewing the systems designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
- Understand information security and designing solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.
- Working with and supporting third parties in providing infrastructure services
- Maintaining dependable IT infrastructure and networking that is always available.
- Troubleshooting problems by running diagnostics, prioritising, and assessing the impact of issues, and documenting problems and resolutions.
- Working independently, having a high level of discipline to manage and take ownership of technical issues.
- Being able to analyse complex technical problems and advise appropriate solutions, given sometimes conflicting requirements.
- Being able to communicate highly complex technical issues and risks to non-technical business stakeholders external to the team, both verbally and in writing.
- Working with the Infrastructure team to build the security of new and existing infrastructure to protect information from unauthorised access, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction.
- Providing technical expertise and input into policies, guidance, and governance forums
- Contributing to problem solving discussions at cross-department technical and enterprise architecture forums, identifying best-fit solutions
- Supporting development and implementation of business continuity planning, disaster recovery management, risk assessment and mitigation to cyber, data and security threats.
- Having a good understanding of cyber security landscape, horizon scanning and proactive education of latest developments.
- May be required undertake any other duties at the request of the line manager which are commensurate with the role, including project work, absence cover or new initiatives.
Essential Skills:
- Microsoft Certified
- Significant and demonstrable expertise with PowerShell and scripting.
- Significant expertise and knowledge of Windows Server and Microsoft Active Directory platform.
- In-depth working knowledge of Microsoft platforms with a focus on Intune, Microsoft Exchange Online, Office 365 support technologies, and Azure Active Directory.
- Strong experience configuring anti-malware, intrusion detection, firewalls and vulnerability scanning systems and network security.
- Extensive experience and working knowledge with Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service platform and hybrid infrastructure; including planning, configuration, optimisation and deployment
- Extensive experience of patching, monitoring and infrastructure change management of business continuity.
Desirable Skills:
- Experience with SQL Server and always on availability groups.
- Experience configuring office telecommunications
- Strong and demonstrable VMWare vSphere skills with a proven track record working with a large, complex infrastructure environment
- Microsoft Azure certification
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch