It Infrastructure Engineer

IT Infrastructure Engineer  OxfordUp to £45,000 DOE 40 hours: Between the hours of 08:00 and 18:00, Monday to Friday.
Your Role At Rygor Group, we are looking for a proactive and engaged IT Infrastructure Engineer who wants to play a key role in our company.
The IT Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for the implementation, and maintenance of robust, secure, and scalable IT infrastructure systems that support the organisation's business operations.
The role requires deep technical expertise in areas such as networking, server management, virtualisation, cloud platforms, and security.
As a senior member of the IT Department, this role will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, provide guidance and mentorship to the service desk team, and play a key role in infrastructure-related projects and strategic initiatives.
Day to day, you will: Ensuring that the group's network, server, voice & data Infrastructure is fit for purpose and maintained to a level that supports the IT Business SLA's.
By providing an excellent level of customer experience by understanding their needs and translating and embedding these into their technical solutions.
Managing customer/project requirements within agreed deliverables and budget and ensure the effective transition from project closure to operational support.
To manage the technical relationship with our customers by providing advice on the selection, acquisition and implementation of IT systems across the group.
Ensuring all systems are administered to Infrastructure best practice standards.
Develop and maintain technical documentation and standards for infrastructure architecture.
Take ownership for ensuring that all user requests and incidents are logged correctly and resolved according to best practice and agreed service levels.
Demonstrate an understanding and awareness of the agreed business service levels and how they can affect the prioritisation of work delivered whilst promoting these to your colleagues.
Deal with all escalations from the service desk team in resolving of all complex incidents and requests.
To ensure all new major system implementations are well documented and share the appropriate information to your IT colleagues.
Provide a high standard of Technical Support to all clients for the network, server and voice & data environments and software in order to meet the agreed business service levels.
Working with your IT colleagues, ensure that backups of all business systems are fully managed, maintained, documented and disaster recovery process procedures are regularly reviewed and tested.
Ensure the integrity and securities of the network are maintained in order to prevent un-authorised access and minimise the risk to the company.
Provide support and assistance to the IT service desk members as well as our users to allow them to fully utilise the benefits of the group's software, providing training as required.
Promote best practice in accordance with IT policy within all aspects of IT support, systems development, service delivery and change management.
Maintain expert technical product and application knowledge as required to provide support of server, desktop and voice/data network.
Ensure that the network, server and desktop environment across the business complies with IT strategy and policy in order to minimise operational costs, improve support and to ensure all systems are working to full capacity.
Identify and rectify gaps and conflicts within the infrastructure environment, working with all relevant parties to resolve.
Provide specific product or application administrative support as defined by your line manager and ensure that colleagues are trained and provided with adequate documentation.
Ensure that all IT Change is administered correctly in terms of communications and documentation to your immediate colleagues and business users as a whole.
To complete system upgrades and planned works.
(out of hours if required) Undertake research and development of current technologies to identify potential solutions whilst keeping abreast of new technologies and project manage as required to ensure any new technologies are deployed in a controller manner.
Establish, develop and maintain effective working relationships with all work colleagues, contractors to ensure an integrated contribution to the IT department's objectives.
Observe and comply with policies and procedures for Health and Safety at Work and promote great customer care.
Participate in learning and development activities that develop personal effectiveness and assist in improving performance in the role.
Undertake any other duties as may reasonably be required in line with the level of responsibility of the post and in order to meet the changing needs of the business.
Skills & Behaviours Required for this Role: Resilience – A resilient person is someone who has strong coping skills and can draw on these when life presents challenges.
Organisation– This role requires a highly organised individual, who can manage conflicting priorities and meet deadlines.
Communication- This role requires an individual with strong verbal and written communication skills, to communicate with all stakeholders.
Team Collaboration- This role requires an individual who can work effectively within a team, assisting others, and providing support when necessary.
Additionally, the right candidate will contribute to the overall goals of the organisation.
This role will be a great fit for you if:  Excellent customer service skills gain in a busy work environment.
Computer literate with experience of using IT systems including MS Office 365 programs regularly in a business environment.
Ability to explain technical issues clearly and simply to non-technical people.
Previous experience in an IT infrastructure role- preferred.
Experience of service management ticket-based systems.
Experience of 1st and 2nd line support.
Understanding of IP and networking.
Experience using Keyloop Autoline Rev8 – DMS.
Computing or IT support qualification.
Microsoft Certified Professional accreditations.
Our Values & Behaviours We're looking for incredible team members who share our values and can add to our culture.
Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals.
Rewarding I am grateful.
I am courageous.
I am curious.
We love to say "thank you" to our team members, and we promise to let you know when you have done a great job.
We will make sure you feel rewarded and valued, every step of the way.
We all value our customers and go the extra mile to set standards for them – every single time they visit.
You are a natural helper and have exemplary manners, you enjoy saying a simple "thanks" to your colleagues.
Reliable I am honest.
I am attentive.
I am trustworthy.
Our customers can depend on us to keep their vehicles on the road with exceptional service, and our team members can trust us to set standards for them through open and honest communication, training and support, and personal and professional development.
You are dedicated to achieving high quality standards via being process driven and a critical thinker.
Respectful I am inclusive.
I am resilient.
I am kind.
We are considerate and kind to our team, the definition of being a true team-player.
We promote the importance of equality and diversity, the well-being of our team members, and we are respectful in the way we speak and act towards others.
You respect and adhere to safe working practices and have good interpersonal and organisational skills.
Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified.
As long as you are industry level qualified for the role, we encourage you to apply, even if you don't feel like you meet all our requirements.
We want to know about your passions, achievements, learning and growth.
If this role excites you, start a conversation with us!
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) At Rygor, we're committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
We are an award-winning community of professionals from all walks of life, and we believe our unique qualities should be celebrated.
It's essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise.
Benefits for you Working for an official ? and for three years running!
Working for a .
Working with our award-winning team – we are winners at the .
Recipients of the Bronze Award under the Armed Forces Covenant Access to 100s of employee perks on .
Auto-enrolment pension.
A day off for your Birthday.
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity policies.
Access to our wellness programme and Employee Assistance Programmes, including WeCare from Canada Life (EAP with 24HR Online GP access and second Medical Opinion).
Mental Health First Aiders.
Reward and recognition programmes, including our annual .
Annual appraisals programme and progression opportunities.
Manufacturer training and access to our in-house training hub.
Death in service benefit.
23 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
About Rygor We are an award-winning multi-franchise Dealer group, with branches across England, offering extensive coverage for customers throughout the M5, M4 and M42 corridors.
We have multiple industry and network awards under our belt and provide exceptional customer service, which Sets Standards.
What's more, we are officially a Great Place to Work?, meaning we really do have a great company culture which embodies our values of Rewarding, Reliable and Respectful.
Hiring Process  We shortlist CVs online, so make sure to include information about yourself that makes you stand out.
A short screening call with our hiring manager or a member of our people team.
Come to site and meet the team, have a tour, and let's have a chat so we can get to know each other better.
If your application is successful, we'll be excited to make you an offer.
Support – If you need to make reasonable adjustments to our process, please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make the adjustments that may be needed.