SAN Contract Jobs
Senior Networks Engineer
Job Description
Substantial Network Engineering experience with exposure Juniper, Dell Fabric, Cisco routing and switching
Substantial Network Engineering experience in network systems/infrastructure design (Visio, Excel, words, Documentation)
Experiences to include, Network Management Systems, PRTG.
Experience in formal network test design and configuration including, Xena network tool, Wireshark, IP flow, SOIP, USBOIP etc.
Good Knowledge of software scripting, (API, Web Service, syslog etc.)
Experience in Network security (firewalls and IDS) design and implementation.
Experience in WAN design and configuration to include but limited to: All WAN media, Packet shaper, WAN accelerator (Riverbed)
Worked in a secure environment with understanding of MOD working practices
Good understanding of VMware
Substantial Network Design Experience; history of working within a design team, must include writing and updating High and Low level design documentation.
The following qualifications would also be beneficial:
Windows Server 2003 & 2008; SQL experience
Other operating systems including VMware ESXi Server 4/5, Linux (SUSE /RedHat).
Working knowledge of various VMware tools.
Working knowledge of SAN Technologies.
Network Management& Monitoring Systems e.g. PRTG and Solarwinds.
Responsibilities
Network development including: design, analysis, configuration, testing and fixing issues with the network infrastructure or application components. Your role will be to ensure that communications function across the network architecture and that the network's performance meets the necessary requirements. You would also provide direction, information, and recommendations regarding network configurations and installations on RN platforms to support the various aspects of overall Combat System integration.
The Individual
Key skills:
An understanding of how to configure and setup Juniper, Dell and Fortinet Firewalls
Experience with configuring and installing client and server network software
Knowledge of Local Area Networking (LAN) and/or Wide Area Networking (WAN) technologies
An understanding of the technology behind a switched architecture and its workings (DNS, DHCP, Security, IP Switching/Routing, HTTP, VPN, etc.)
Current Juniper JNCIA, JNCIS, JNCIP or CCNA/CCNP and/or CCDA certification
Experience of working with Switches, Routers, Hubs, Servers, Cables (Cat 5-6), Fibre Optics, Racks LAN, WAN, TCP/IP (Ethernet)
Network Management & Monitoring Systems e.g. PRTG and Solarwinds
A good knowledge of all phases of the software lifecycle but with particular experience in Integration & Acceptance and ideally knowledge in one or more of the following:
Windows Server 2003 & 2008; SQL experience
Other operating systems including VMware ESXi Server 4/5, Linux (SUSE /RedHat).
Working knowledge of various VMware tools.
Working knowledge of SAN Technologies
To apply for this position, you must be eligible to live and work in the UK and either possess or be able to obtain UK MOD Security Clearance to SC Level.
SENIOR INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER – CONTRACT
SENIOR INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER – CONTRACT – Are you an experienced senior-level IT all-rounder with good knowledge of datacentre systems like storage, virtualisation and networking? Able to work independently and equally as a part of a team? Can you install/rack and stack equipment? Do you have good knowledge of configuring firewalls and switches? Good knowledge of Microsoft Hyper-V and Failover Cluster Manager? Good knowledge of SAN Storage (iSCSI)? Happy to work as part of an On-call 24/7 on-call rota? If so apply now for this new contract opportunity!!!
Desirable skills (any of the below, the more the merrier) Cisco ASA firewalls, Cisco Nexus Switches, Cisco Meraki experience, Microsoft SCVMM, Microsoft SCOM, Microsoft SCCM, Microsoft SQL skills, SolarWinds Orion, Juniper SRX firewalls, Juniper switches, Commvault backup experience, Azure experience, JIRA Software, Azure Pack, Office 365 administration experience, Sonic Wall, Polycom VoIP, Cisco VoIP/Call manager, Cisco Firesight, Biztalk, Papercut, Dynamics 365, Google Analytics Admin, WatchGuard, RSA 2-factor authentication, Netbackup.
Desirable Certs
VMware VCP 6.x, Cisco CCNA/CCNP, MCITP Server virtualisation Admin, MCSA SQL, Dell Compellent Certification, MCSE, Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS, Google).
Send your CV now for immediate consideration, contact Karl @ Reflex now for more info!!
Cisco ASA, Firewalls, Hyper-V, VMware, SCCM, System Center, Nexus
SENIOR INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER - CONTRACT
SENIOR INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER - CONTRACT - Are you an experienced senior-level IT all-rounder with good knowledge of datacentre systems like storage, virtualisation and networking? Able to work independently and equally as a part of a team? Can you install/rack and stack equipment? Do you have good knowledge of configuring firewalls and switches? Good knowledge of Microsoft Hyper-V and Failover Cluster Manager? Good knowledge of SAN Storage (iSCSI)? Happy to work as part of an On-call 24/7 on-call rota? If so apply now for this new contract opportunity!!!
Desirable skills (any of the below, the more the merrier) Cisco ASA firewalls, Cisco Nexus Switches, Cisco Meraki experience, Microsoft SCVMM, Microsoft SCOM, Microsoft SCCM, Microsoft SQL skills, SolarWinds Orion, Juniper SRX firewalls, Juniper switches, Commvault backup experience, Azure experience, JIRA Software, Azure Pack, Office 365 administration experience, Sonic Wall, Polycom VoIP, Cisco VoIP/Call manager, Cisco Firesight, Biztalk, Papercut, Dynamics 365, Google Analytics Admin, WatchGuard, RSA 2-factor authentication, Netbackup.
Desirable Certs
VMware VCP 6.x, Cisco CCNA/CCNP, MCITP Server virtualisation Admin, MCSA SQL, Dell Compellent Certification, MCSE, Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS, Google).
Send your CV now for immediate consideration, contact Karl @ Reflex now for more info!!
Cisco ASA, Firewalls, Hyper-V, VMware, SCCM, System Center, Nexus
Last 90 Days
Infrastructure Architect
Location
Brentford, Middlesex
Sector:
Infrastructure
Job type:
Contract
Salary:
Up to £425 per day
Contact:
Joe James
Contact email:
Job ref:
BBBH12153_1552389312
Published:
about 5 hours ago
Expiry date:
2019-04-11
Consultant:
Joe James
Reference:
BBBH12153_1552389312
Infrastructure Architect - 6 Month Contract - West London
Broadcast and Media Industry
We are currently looking to speak with Talented Infrastructure Architects to join the Global Infrastructure Architect team of a Broadcast and Media company based in West London. You will responsible for the roadmap of our infrastructure designs and own design work for specific product and customer solutions.
Reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Design & Delivery within the Infrastructure Team, you will work closely with teams both locally and within other countries to deliver world class solutions on which the business operates.
The company is currently going through a global transformation of multiple architecture concepts to a single global unified infrastructure and architectural strategy, you will take ownership and be responsible for design and delivery of components of this strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure end to end completeness of Infrastructure Technical Design, including NFRs validated and realized.
- Requirement gathering and responses for presales activities
- Ensure adherence to standards and influence solutions towards the Infrastructure future state model.
- Owning technology roadmaps and feeding wider business requirements into central infrastructure and engineering teams.
- Analysis of service-related trends and recommendation of technology change or improvements that better fit business needs.
- Working with implementation teams to ensure that delivered solutions match customer requirements
- Any other tasks to ensure successful delivery towards the end customer
- Contribution to Infrastructure Service Catalogue
Technical Specification
Ideally you will require experience in the following areas
- Expertise in design of Active Directory, ADFS, Microsoft Cluster Solution architecture and Integration of core infrastructure technologies.
- Good knowledge and understanding of Linux architecture & integration with Active Directory
- Expertise in the design & deployment of VMware, Hyper-V and other Virtualization Technologies.
- Knowledge Application deployment architectures specifically System Centre Configuration Manager advantageous.
- Experience with design of Ansible, Kubernetes & Puppet is advantageous.
- Strong knowledge of storage hardware including NAS & SAN environments.
- Experience in the design and deployment of public key infrastructure environments utilising the latest technologies.
- Knowledge of architecture for privilege management and implementation across a large scale organisation.
- Advanced knowledge and understanding of Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Security, SQL Server Reporting Services & SQL Server Integration Services.
- Experience in deployment of all infrastructure systems.
- Ability to design and implement new systems
- Advanced knowledge and understanding of Microsoft Security Practices including experience in the design of group policies, machine hardening & management.
Experience in TOGAF, Agile and waterfall are all advantages with experience in relevant consultancy and/or architecture roles.
Infrastructure Snr Project Manager
An opportunity for a Project Manager to work for a Global Business process outsourcing company. Continue reading to find out more!
Role: Infrastructure Snr Project Manager / Programme Manager
Location: London
Duration: 8 Month contract
Day Rate: Up to £550 a day depending on experience
As the Infrastructure Project Delivery Manager you will be responsible for a team of engineers dedicated to the implementation of the company cloud infrastructure and migration of legacy environments to this new infrastructure. This will involve managing the deployments of projects both new requirements and of expanding/changes to existing services across the business. This is a pivotal role that joins up the project life cycle to provision and manage existing and new solution deployments utilising the new public and private cloud infrastructure. You will be working with 3rd party hosting providers and internal teams for the Cloud and compute elements and server provisioning. This will entail working closely with technical teams across Infrastructure and application architects to deliver robust and sustainable solutions on time, in budget and to quality.
This will be delivered from various locations from data centres and production sites across the UK and the US. You will be responsible for a team of skilled technical engineers competent in delivering complex solutions and builds utilising the existing technologies adopted by the company across all disciplines of compute, storage, virtualisation, backup and monitoring & performance tools spread across regional sites. You will need to be strong project delivery orientated individual capable of managing large complex projects, a team of full time and project resource and demand resource alongside PM's. It is essential you have a high level of understanding of a variety of systems across the group including legacy systems and of most up-to-date including those offered by our 3rd party suppliers of hosting services.
The role can be performed from London and/or remotely. The main DC's are based in London. There will be occasional travel to national sites with frequent travel to the London. The nature of the role will require elements of out of hours to accommodate project life cycles and changes to live systems that can only be made at agreed outage windows. These will be arranged with prior approvals and agreements.
Responsibilities
- Manage the overall planning, control, status reporting, stability and project delivery of the Hosting work stream.
- Develop detailed project plans, schedules, estimates, resource plans, and status reports to maintain customer satisfaction
- Responsible for managing the budget and reporting progress of the project on an ongoing basis
- Obtain feedback from key stakeholders and provide accurate reporting at critical milestones and manage stakeholder relationships
- Establish reporting structures inside the project team, ensure team engagement and review the performance of project team members
- Manage and mentor the Infrastructure Cloud and Compute team
- Provide project status reporting and highlighting risks and issues
- Managing the technical delivery teams on all aspects of hardware, peripherals, server configurations, Storage SAN/NAS, backups and monitoring and elements of AD administration throughout the infrastructure which comprises the 'core infrastructure' for project delivery
- To demonstrate continual self-learning in the immediate and related disciplines, including keeping up to date with the latest market changes and offerings including 3rd party hosting providers
- To transfer/share knowledge with colleagues to effectively develop the IT group.
- To demonstrate excellent resource management and able to think on your feet to deliver complex and time critical solutions
- Excellent troubleshooting and diagnosis skills, escalating where appropriate and using resources efficiently
- Maintaining effective communication at all times through the project teams utilising the project framework adopted.
- To be diligent in maintaining records of activities on both time sheets and activity logs which may be subject to subsequent audit, All written work must be well structured, accurate and easy to understand.
- To ensure that all Policies, practices and standards are understood and rigidly adhered to.
- EXPERIENCE:
- minimum 12+ years
- minimum 6+ years in Project management
- minimum 6+ years in managing multiple teams of people
- Membership of relevant professional body
- IMPA Level A Qualification
Apply Now! To get your CV in front of the hiring manager today.
Randstad Business Support is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Infrastructure Snr Project Manager
An opportunity for a Project Manager to work for a Global Business process outsourcing company. Exceptional salary as well as full benefits package which includes private medical insurance, company pension and corporate eye care. Continue reading to find out more!
Role: Infrastructure Snr Project Manager / Programme Manager
Location: London
Duration: 8 Month contract
Day Rate: Up to £550 a day depending on experience
As the Infrastructure Project Delivery Manager you will be responsible for a team of engineers dedicated to the implementation of the company cloud infrastructure and migration of legacy environments to this new infrastructure. This will involve managing the deployments of projects both new requirements and of expanding/changes to existing services across the business. This is a pivotal role that joins up the project life cycle to provision and manage existing and new solution deployments utilising the new public and private cloud infrastructure. You will be working with 3rd party hosting providers and internal teams for the Cloud and compute elements and server provisioning. This will entail working closely with technical teams across Infrastructure and application architects to deliver robust and sustainable solutions on time, in budget and to quality.
This will be delivered from various locations from data centres and production sites across the UK and the US. You will be responsible for a team of skilled technical engineers competent in delivering complex solutions and builds utilising the existing technologies adopted by the company across all disciplines of compute, storage, virtualisation, backup and monitoring & performance tools spread across regional sites. You will need to be strong project delivery orientated individual capable of managing large complex projects, a team of full time and project resource and demand resource alongside PM's. It is essential you have a high level of understanding of a variety of systems across the group including legacy systems and of most up-to-date including those offered by our 3rd party suppliers of hosting services.
The role can be performed from London and/or remotely. The main DC's are based in London. There will be occasional travel to national sites with frequent travel to the London. The nature of the role will require elements of out of hours to accommodate project life cycles and changes to live systems that can only be made at agreed outage windows. These will be arranged with prior approvals and agreements.
Responsibilities
- Manage the overall planning, control, status reporting, stability and project delivery of the Hosting work stream.
- Develop detailed project plans, schedules, estimates, resource plans, and status reports to maintain customer satisfaction
- Responsible for managing the budget and reporting progress of the project on an ongoing basis
- Obtain feedback from key stakeholders and provide accurate reporting at critical milestones and manage stakeholder relationships
- Establish reporting structures inside the project team, ensure team engagement and review the performance of project team members
- Manage and mentor the Infrastructure Cloud and Compute team
- Provide project status reporting and highlighting risks and issues
- Managing the technical delivery teams on all aspects of hardware, peripherals, server configurations, Storage SAN/NAS, backups and monitoring and elements of AD administration throughout the infrastructure which comprises the 'core infrastructure' for project delivery
- To demonstrate continual self-learning in the immediate and related disciplines, including keeping up to date with the latest market changes and offerings including 3rd party hosting providers
- To transfer/share knowledge with colleagues to effectively develop the IT group.
- To demonstrate excellent resource management and able to think on your feet to deliver complex and time critical solutions
- Excellent troubleshooting and diagnosis skills, escalating where appropriate and using resources efficiently
- Maintaining effective communication at all times through the project teams utilising the project framework adopted.
- To be diligent in maintaining records of activities on both time sheets and activity logs which may be subject to subsequent audit, All written work must be well structured, accurate and easy to understand.
- To ensure that all Policies, practices and standards are understood and rigidly adhered to.
- EXPERIENCE:
- minimum 12+ years
- minimum 6+ years in Project management
- minimum 6+ years in managing multiple teams of people
- Membership of relevant professional body
- IMPA Level A Qualification
Apply Now! To get your CV in front of the hiring manager today.
Randstad Business Support is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Integration Engineer
Our Client has an immediate requirement for an Integration Engineer to join it's team of Engineers to support a number of IT programmes at its site Dorest and at customer sites in the South of England.
The successful engineer will be expected to support integration teams responsible for:
- Developing releases across a number of operational systems;
- Support the team in managing and maintaining reference and development rigs at Client Site;
- Occasional visits to customer sites to support deployment;
The applicant would ideally have skills in the following areas or be prepared to rapidly gain experience in the following:
- Knowledge of 2016, 2012 Server, Windows 10, 8 Operating Systems;
- MS patch updates;
- Undertaking changes in controlled environment;
- Active Directory;
- Citrix XenServer, XenDesktop;
- VMware, ESXi, vCenter;
- Protective monitoring using ArcSight, Splunk;
- Backup & archive using ArcServe & VEEAM;
- SAN technologies;
- IP Networking, load balancing, firewalls and routers using Cisco, Juniper and McAfee;
- Rational Team Concert (RTC) for configuration management (or similar);
- Scripting and powershell.
- Technical documentation production.
To apply for this position, you must be eligible to live and work in the UK and either possess or be able to obtain UK MOD Security Clearance to SC Level.
Interim Senior Technical Architect - Architecture/Informatio...
Bracknell RQ350978 Interim Senior Technical Architect - Architecture/Information Technology
A Technical Architect is required for the IT team. The postholder will be expected to have expertise in Enterprise Architecture and Software Architecture, and to be able to support us in analysing the current estate, and reviewing and planning delivery of our future strategy.
As there is no formal Job Description for this role, please could you provide as much information as possible on your CV including any relevant Qualifications, Skills and Experience.
Pay Rate: £550.00 per day PAYE
This is a temporary, but possibly long term role.
N.B. – Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Giving yourself the best chance of success:
- Your CV needs to be current with your latest/present role, noting that we won’t be able to submit it with any unexplained gaps in employment. It will save time and thus improve your chances of success if we can put your CV forward immediately and without having to ask you for a revised version.
- Your CV must cover the “Essential Requirements” (see below) of the role, ideally by way of bullet points that directly address the “Essential Requirements” listed. Please include any DBS details and other qualifications called for.
- Your CV should clearly state that you are available to start work either immediately, or at short notice. In general, our clients are unable to work with notice periods of more than 1 week from the point at which a role is offered, 2 weeks at the very most.
- We cannot put forward covering letters, so please ensure that your CV in isolation contains all relevant information being called for.
- We recommend that you consider sending us by email (see * below) a suitably ‘tailored’ CV for each role that you apply for, noting that job boards, sites and aggregators will generally store only one version of your CV, which can be a bit limiting...
“Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
- Your address (including post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Qualifications:
- Microsoft Certified Architect (MCAP)
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- Degree in information, communication, technology or related subject or equivalent work experience
- TOGAF®, Open Group Certified Architect qualification or equivalent experience
- ITIL certification
- Project Management Professional: PMP
- Knowledge & Skills:
- Good knowledge of information infrastructure and IT strategy
- Ability to analyse business requirements and produce high quality solution designs based on a broad knowledge of strategic delivery platforms
- Ability to develop and implement evidenced-based strategies, policies and projects to effect positive change
- Experience:
- Recent evidence of technical architecture analysis and design
- Recent evidence of IT strategy and roadmap development
- Experience as an Operations Manager (Network, SAN, Architect, DBA teams) working within a service management environment
- Experience of developing plans and roadmaps with tangible, achievable milestones
- Confident and comfortable communicating appropriately with a very broad range of stakeholders: users, business owners, senior management up to C-level, developers, testers, systems architects, and so on
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for
Client Category: Local Authority
Division(s)/Disciplines involved: Architecture/Information Technology
Anticipated Length of Assignment: All of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. This opening assignment is for 6 months.
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, 09:00-17:30
Whilst our ads will appear on partner sites such as Indeed, they are also listed - and will appear first - on our own website: Triumph Consultants Limited: www.tclrec.com
- If you would prefer to send a CV straight to us rather than by way of an on-line application, you are very welcome to do so via [email protected] but please quote both the job reference and job title exactly as they appear below:
Job Ref: Bracknell RQ350978
Interim Senior Technical Architect - Architecture/Information Technology
Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.
We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.
Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.
Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.
Unix Administrator
West Midlands
Contract
£350 - £400 per day
A Unix Administratior is required to join a Financial Services organisation based in Central Birmingham on a contract basis
Areas of Responsibility:
- Supporting the production and pre-production Unix/ Linux environments day to day.
- Ensuring the organisations Unix/ Linux infrastructure performs within SLA.
- Planning and impleenting Unix/ Linux Enterprise upgrades.
- Responsible for providing support and skills coaching for other team memebers.
- Takes responsibility to build and scale storage for growth, security, and resilience.
- Keep up-to-date on current technology and makes recommendations to management.
Key Skills:
- Strong background in AIX, along with Redhat Linux and HP-UX.
- Knowledge of Enterprise Monitoring Software,
- Previous experience of IBM SAN, particularly V7000.
Desirable
- Microsoft office intermediate
- HP Data protector administration and configuration
- ITIL Foundation
- Vmware ESX 3.1 & ESX 3.5
Senior Network Consultant (CCNP)
Senior Network Consultant (CCNP) - Swindon - £450 per day, 6 months
Network Consultant joining our clients Professional Services team. The ideal candidate will have experience owning projects from cradle to grave, the full lifecycle being the “go to person” for all activities including design and implementation of end-to-end network solutions.
Key Duties
- Act as the glue between tech and sales on customer meetings, and make recommendations on the design.
- Own projects from inception to completion.
- Perform strategic architecture and road mapping for clients.
- Requirements gathering and scoping of solutions to meet clients requirements.
- Be a face of the business, build a strong rapport with clients and become the consultant of choice.
- HLD/LLD.
- Liaise with 3rd party vendors.
- Perform configurations, troubleshooting and administration.
- Manage major incidents and support calls.
- Knowledge share within the business, encourages colleagues and mentor peers.
- Make suggestions on improving client’s infrastructure.
Technologies
- Cisco routing and switching, particularly Nexus 9k, 7k, 5k and 2k ranges.
- Cisco or Checkpoint Firewalls.
- Experience of Enterprise and Data Centre Network Infrastructure.
- Cisco Prime or Solarwinds
- Cisco Meraki or similar products wireless knowledge, large scale deployments - build WLC from scratch, setting up Access Points and conducting Site Surveys.
- General Infrastructure knowledge, not essential but nice to have Window 2012, VMware, SAN and NAS.
Desirable but not essential
- FirePOWER
- Cisco ISE
- Cisco Umbrella
Certification
- A valid CCIE or ability to demonstrate CCNP level knowledge/experience.
- CCNP minimum
The rate is £450 per day, immediate start and it's a 6 month engagement, outside of IR35.
Apply now for immediate consideration. Senior Network Consultant - Swindon - £450 per day, 6 months
Network Consultant joining our clients Professional Services team. The ideal candidate will have experience owning projects from cradle to grave, the full lifecycle being the “go to person” for all activities including design and implementation of end-to-end network solutions.
Key Duties
- Act as the glue between tech and sales on customer meetings, and make recommendations on the design.
- Own projects from inception to completion.
- Perform strategic architecture and road mapping for clients.
- Requirements gathering and scoping of solutions to meet clients requirements.
- Be a face of the business, build a strong rapport with clients and become the consultant of choice.
- HLD/LLD.
- Liaise with 3rd party vendors.
- Perform configurations, troubleshooting and administration.
- Manage major incidents and support calls.
- Knowledge share within the business, encourages colleagues and mentor peers.
- Make suggestions on improving client’s infrastructure.
Technologies
- Cisco routing and switching, particularly Nexus 9k, 7k, 5k and 2k ranges.
- Cisco or Checkpoint Firewalls.
- Experience of Enterprise and Data Centre Network Infrastructure.
- Cisco Prime or Solarwinds
- Cisco Meraki or similar products wireless knowledge, large scale deployments - build WLC from scratch, setting up Access Points and conducting Site Surveys.
- General Infrastructure knowledge, not essential but nice to have Window 2012, VMware, SAN and NAS.
Desirable but not essential
- FirePOWER
- Cisco ISE
- Cisco Umbrella
Certification
- A valid CCIE or ability to demonstrate CCNP level knowledge/experience.
- CCNP minimum
Apply now for immediate consideration.
Infrastructure Architect
Location
Brentford, Middlesex
Sector:
Infrastructure
Job type:
Contract
Salary:
Up to £425 per day
Contact:
Joe James
Contact email:
Job ref:
BBBH12153_1550249920
Published:
18 days ago
Expiry date:
2019-03-17
Consultant:
Joe James
Reference:
BBBH12153_1550249920
Infrastructure Architect - 6 Month Contract - West London
Broadcast and Media Industry
We are currently looking to speak with Talented Infrastructure Architects to join the Global Infrastructure Architect team of a Broadcast and Media company based in West London. You will responsible for the roadmap of our infrastructure designs and own design work for specific product and customer solutions.
Reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Design & Delivery within the Infrastructure Team, you will work closely with teams both locally and within other countries to deliver world class solutions on which the business operates.
The company is currently going through a global transformation of multiple architecture concepts to a single global unified infrastructure and architectural strategy, you will take ownership and be responsible for design and delivery of components of this strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure end to end completeness of Infrastructure Technical Design, including NFRs validated and realized.
- Requirement gathering and responses for presales activities
- Ensure adherence to standards and influence solutions towards the Infrastructure future state model.
- Owning technology roadmaps and feeding wider business requirements into central infrastructure and engineering teams.
- Analysis of service-related trends and recommendation of technology change or improvements that better fit business needs.
- Working with implementation teams to ensure that delivered solutions match customer requirements
- Any other tasks to ensure successful delivery towards the end customer
- Contribution to Infrastructure Service Catalogue
Technical Specification
Ideally you will require experience in the following areas
- Expertise in design of Active Directory, ADFS, Microsoft Cluster Solution architecture and Integration of core infrastructure technologies.
- Good knowledge and understanding of Linux architecture & integration with Active Directory
- Expertise in the design & deployment of VMware, Hyper-V and other Virtualization Technologies.
- Knowledge Application deployment architectures specifically System Centre Configuration Manager advantageous.
- Experience with design of Ansible, Kubernetes & Puppet is advantageous.
- Strong knowledge of storage hardware including NAS & SAN environments.
- Experience in the design and deployment of public key infrastructure environments utilising the latest technologies.
- Knowledge of architecture for privilege management and implementation across a large scale organisation.
- Advanced knowledge and understanding of Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Security, SQL Server Reporting Services & SQL Server Integration Services.
- Experience in deployment of all infrastructure systems.
- Ability to design and implement new systems
- Advanced knowledge and understanding of Microsoft Security Practices including experience in the design of group policies, machine hardening & management.
Experience in TOGAF, Agile and waterfall are all advantages with experience in relevant consultancy and/or architecture roles.
DC Migration Architect
Datacentre Migration Architect with Nimble SAN, VMware ESX and strong Cisco WAN/LAN Networking experience with a proven track record in datacentre migrations required.
Our client are relocating to a new Co-Lo Datacentre and require an architect with strong documentation experience to help shape the migration strategy to include planning, service migration model and supporting the delivery team.
As well as having strong documentation experience, stakeholder management is key.
Our client are moving from an insourcing to an outsourcing model so candidates that have experience working for service providers/integrators is highly beneficial.
Experience
- Datacentre - Nimble SAN, Dell Server, Cisco Networking
- Virtualisation - VMware ESX
- Strong WAN/LAN network experience
- Documentation - decisions, designs, outputs
- Stakeholder management
Infrastructure Engineer
Windows Infrastructure Engineer required required by one of the UK's leading law firms, working with clients across the UK and around the world.
This is a varied technical role being responsible for the Server infrastructure including Windows Server, VMWare, Azure, and Exchange / O.365. You'll be working with a driven and ambitious firm who have recently undergone a number of new upgrades and implementations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver Hands-on infrastructure support whilst also considering long term planning and change within IT.
- Play a key role in the support, maintenance, development and delivery of infrastructure services.
- Take ownership of services whilst considering and effectively working with the wider infrastructure team.
- Display an interest in and gain an understanding of client business goals and how IT can ensure they achieve them.
Technology:
- Advanced knowledge of Windows 2008-2016 and AD (including group policy)
- Project implementations (replacing phone system, DR overhaul, replacing server estate.)
- Advanced VMWare experience
- Strong SAN (NetApp/HP StoreVirtual)
- Good Networking services experience
- Experience in Exchange 2013//2016 (Office 365 migration experience highly desirable)
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced technical Infrastructure Engineer to join a progression professional services environment.
Candidates must be able to demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving skills.
Infrastructure Engineer
Integration Engineer
Our Client has an immediate requirement for an Integration Engineer to join it's team of Engineers to support a number of IT programmes at its site Dorest and at customer sites in the South of England.
The successful engineer will be expected to support integration teams responsible for:
- Developing releases across a number of operational systems;
- Support the team in managing and maintaining reference and development rigs at Client Site;
- Occasional visits to customer sites to support deployment;
The applicant would ideally have skills in the following areas or be prepared to rapidly gain experience in the following:
- Knowledge of 2016, 2012 Server, Windows 10, 8 Operating Systems;
- MS patch updates;
- Undertaking changes in controlled environment;
- Active Directory;
- Citrix XenServer, XenDesktop;
- VMware, ESXi, vCenter;
- Protective monitoring using ArcSight, Splunk;
- Backup & archive using ArcServe & VEEAM;
- SAN technologies;
- IP Networking, load balancing, firewalls and routers using Cisco, Juniper and McAfee;
- Rational Team Concert (RTC) for configuration management (or similar);
- Scripting and powershell.
- Technical documentation production.
To apply for this position, you must be eligible to live and work in the UK and either possess or be able to obtain UK MOD Security Clearance to SC Level.
Wintel Systems Engineer, Windows Server, AD, VMWare
Wintel Systems Engineer, Windows Server, AD, VMWare, SCCM
Contractor required to work with a leading large corporate organisation based in Leeds.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the support, configuration, on-going operation and development of the Windows Systems Infrastructure including ownership of the company's overall Wintel datacentre technology architecture operational functionality, availability, efficiency and security.
This role will involve both project work and support which can cover all areas of technology used within the environment.
General responsibilities:
- Maintain the Virtualisation and Windows technology capacity, availability and performance
- Support and implement software support toolkits to manage the Virtualisation and Windows environment
- Support the development of the Windows and Virtualisation platforms technology roadmap and lifecycle management
- Development of Server builds and patching using Microsoft SCCM 2012 sp1. Using SCCM 2012 to create and deploy an OS build for Server environments.
- Carry out security backups, housekeeping, preventative maintenance and other operational tasks
- Automation of various infrastructure management tasks, including daily checks, server patching and notification, new sever QA and server decommissioning.
- Documentation, performance tuning, task automation using scripts and deployment technology.
- Support best practices across all infrastructure including AD Security / Policies / Upgrades, OS & Database clustering technologies, VMware, Storage
Technical skills:
- Windows Server 2008 and 2012
- Active Directory including DNS, Group Policies, Delegation of Rights
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
- Microsoft SharePoint 2013
- Understanding of Microsoft Security Technologies; NAP, PKI, AD RMS
- SQL
- Understanding of native High Availability and DR scenarios
- Scripting - VBScript, PowerShell etc.
- Creating standard builds for HP Hardware or similar servers
- Good awareness of ITIL processes (change control, incident management etc.
- SCCM or SCOM
Good working Knowledge in 2 or more areas -
- Microsoft Azure Cloud Based technologies.
- Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements
- Enabling Office 365 Services
- Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud
- VMware vCentre Operations Manager
- VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1/5.5/6
- Microsoft Network Access Protection/Network Access Control.
- PowerShell or equivalent scripting knowledge.
- Analytical and problem solving skills.
- TCP/IP and LAN and WAN technologies.
- Systems interface with Storage sub-systems, HP2000 and HDS SAN and cluster technologies.
- Ability to create design documents