DV 3rd Line Infrastructure Support Engineer

3rd Line Infrastructure Support Engineer
Duration : 6 Months, potential for further work.
Location : onsite in Basingstoke and 2-3 days also expected in London per week,
IR35 Status : Inside IR35
DV Required

Your role

We are looking for a 3rd Line Infrastructure Support Engineer to work with our 3rd Line team and Engineering teams. Your role will involve assisting high profile user community via incident logging application.

Essential Knowledge and Skills Required:

* Microsoft Windows Server 2003-2022
* Active Directory and Group Policy
* Role & Functional based Security Delegation and Layers
* DNS, WINS and DHCP
* PKI Services
* SMTP Proxy Servicing
* Firewall management and controls
* DFS, HA, Clustering, SOFS
* RDS, VMWare, vCenter, ESXI, vMotion, HyperV, VMM Terminal Services
* MS Cloud incorporating Exchange, Storage and Shares App serviced
* Citrix deployments incorporating PVS\MCS
* APP-v incorporating Citrix StoreFront
* Powershell Scripting, MBAM/BitLocker/VPN

Desirable skills and knowledge/certifications

*Any Microsoft / Citrix / VMWare certification
*Wider understanding of client or midrange OSes, networking and security
*HyperV, Azure and Google Cloud
*HP BladeSystem, or similar blade servers / blade chassis and interconnect technologies
*HP Cloud Service Automation, or similar self-service cloud management technology
*HP Server Automation, or similar system configuration / software deployment technology
*Symantec Datacentre Security, or similar security policy enforcement product
*A deep understanding of Virtualisation and Container technologies
*Design of large, complex systems including practical experimentation and development skills
*Has both technical breadth and depth and great client engagement skills
*Knowledge or appreciation of some the listed technologies;
Foreman; Puppet; Satellite; Ansible; Nagios; AI/ML; Big Data; Elastic Search; IaaS; PaaS; HPC; DevOps; AWS; Azure; Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift; Linux based applications


Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 18 weeks.