Infrastructure Engineer

Our client is an award winning engineering company based in Exeter. This is an exciting opportunity to join the business as a Senior IT Engineer to join their dynamic team. Your role will be to take the lead on the company's IT infrastructure, reporting to the Head of Business Systems. Supporting the Exeter office based employees, as well as those out in the field, this is a busy role ensuring business as usual, as well as working on key projects to improve the business infrastructure. To be successful in this role, you will need to be an experienced IT Support professional with experience of software and hardware support and Microsoft desktop and server support.

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate resources (IT hardware, software licences, network cabling, telephony) within a predefined budget and criteria
• Liaise with system and software providers to attain product information and support
• Maintain all servers (physical and virtual)
• Administer internet and email user accounts, permissions and access rights
• Maintain the security systems including firewalls, anti-virus, intrusion detection systems and disaster recovery solutions
• Maintain all company database systems including bespoke and SQL databases
• Manage full Microsoft Office 365 administration centre, SharePoint and in-house social networking platforms (Yammer)
• Ensure compliance at all times with systems, protocols and policies, reviewing and writing them when necessary
• Manage, motivate and develop other IT staff and placement students when necessary
• Support the VoIP phone system and liaise with the provider for support as required
• Develop and support Well Site IT infrastructure including RabbitMQ and SQL replication.
• Manage the current IT infrastructure, hardware and software and plan for future strategic development and budgeting to account for changes in the company

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of operating systems including Windows 10
• Knowledge and experience in Microsoft Server (2012R2 and later) and Active Directory
• Office365 administration experience
• Knowledge maintaining IP phone systems
• Administration of virtual server systems, ideally VMWare ESXi
• Microsoft SQL administration experience
• Basic Web/HTML and/or programming skills would be highly advantageous

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an award-winning company at a senior IT level. This role will come with opportunities for international travel to locations such as the USA. If you feel that you meet the above requirements, please apply now to find out more.

Closing Date: Please note that we will accept applications up to the closing date, however all suitable candidates will be submitted as soon as received, and the client reserves the right to appoint before the closing date.

If you have the skills and experience stated, please apply NOW!

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