Job description
Infrastructure Engineer (Platform)Hybrid Working - 2 days per week in office in Peterborough and the rest from home
Gerrard White is currently seeking an Infrastructure Platform Engineer to join the Wintel Infrastructure Operations Team of one of the UK's largest insurance companies. You will assist the team to ensure systems are maintained, enhanced, while providing technical support to tech and business team and contribute to technology, infrastructure and platform projects and solve problems based on insight. Key to the role is ensuring system availability, performance, resilience and stability service levels are achieved through platform maintenance and development.
Key Responsibilities:
Manage platform developments, enhancements and changes to maximise uptime, capacity and service levels
Contribute to platform operational maintenance and on-going BAU activity
Setup, install, configure, and upgrade virtual and physical server hardware/software environments
Ensure platform availability, stability, resilience and performance to meet business needs
Collaborate with other operational teams as an SME and contribute to operational service levels
Contribute to tech projects and help develop tech solutions that deliver exceptional customer experiences
Ensure support requests are managed and resolved within agreed processes and practices
Use a variety of scripting languages and automation techniques to develop and maintain hardware/software. Ideally Powershell.
Suitable candidates will have experience of the following technologies:
Excellent hardware, OS, AD, Storage/SAN, Citrix, Netscaler experience
Excellent Windows and Linux administration
Experience of patching, WSUS, Ansible, SCCM
Excellent Exchange and O365 experience
Used to working within the ITIL Framework
Excellent experience of VMWare and virtual server enterprise estates
Experience of monitoring/alerting, backup/recovery and security
Automation and multiple scripting languages experience
Multi-cloud experience
NetApp/3Par/Nutanix/Tintri/Rubrik/NetBackup experience
Experience of fast paced 24/7 365 digital environment
