Job Description

This role is critical to the organization, requiring a technical expert who is able to manage complexity and deliver key infrastructure upgrades and services while assuring to deliver both internal and external services.
Main Duties

• Responsible for the agile delivery a of reliable, secure, and cost-efficient IT infrastructure
• Plays a key role in operational Data Centre and hosting improvement projects.
• Works with functional leadership to develops long term vision of the UK IT Data Centre technologies and solutions. 
• Research and identify the most appropriate technologies and services
• Effective maintenance of secure and stable IT platforms for the business.
• Ensure all services are appropriately documented.
• Engage closely with the rest of the department working towards achieving stable and reliable operations

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience in the following technology areas such as: Server Hardware and Storage, Vsphere, Active directory.
• Implementation, support and administration of Microsoft Windows Server.
• Demonstrated expertise in Windows Active Directory (DNS/Group Policies)
• Knowledge and solid understanding of industry best practices in Private and Public Cloud provisioning
• Excellent communication skills - written, verbal, presentation and influencing, at all levels within an organization.
• ITIL qualifications and practical application experience within a service centric organization
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Science, or Mathematics, although significant experience and track record with tertiary qualifications is acceptable.
• SC cleared or the ability to become SC cleared.
• Computing Related Degree
• Scripting skillset.
• Multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking.
• Understanding of cloud security best practices.
• Experience with templates and other configurable items to enable automation.
• Familiarity with deployment techniques (and tools) in a distributed environment.
• Basic monitoring techniques in a dynamic environment.