IT Infrastructure Engineer

IT Infrastructure Engineer

We are looking for a professional, enthusiastic, and flexible individual with experience of working in a busy office and remote environments. The candidate must have excellent communication skills, able to work well within a team, but also manage their own workload with good time management. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package.

Brand Addition is an exciting business to work for and has a leading position in the market of providing creative, cost-effective branded products to some of the world’s most well-known brands. We operate a complex multi-site environment, hosting many different systems which enables us to provide class leading solutions to some the world’s largest companies.

The Infrastructure Engineers role is to support the Group IT Infrastructure Manager in providing a 1st class Information Technology Platform for our internal staff and Customers, to help manage our Virtual Environment which hosts a variety of Servers platforms, running a variety of applications, to maintain the existing server and network infrastructure, implement approved changes, and provide 3rd line IT Support to the business across several sites globally.

The ideal candidate must have excellent interpersonal skills, great troubleshooting skills, have an eye for attention to detail and the enthusiasm to learn and develop their skills further.

Responsibilities include

Ensure the efficient and smooth running of the IT Infrastructure

Establish and maintain processes for monitoring and maintaining server and network performance

Establish and maintain processes for monitoring and maintaining server and network security

To maintain our virtual environment (VMWare/Hyper-V/Azure)

Maintain server and network infrastructure, including installing, updating, Patching, and producing supporting documentation

Maintain Active Directory (Azure Hybrid), Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, Exchange, SQL Server, etc

Work with SQL Administrator to ensure optimal performance of database servers

Ensure all processes for backups and disaster recovery are functioning

Undertaking IT Projects as directed by the Group IT Infrastructure Manager

3rd line IT Support to the business.

Must have implementation and support experience

Windows Server 2016 and above

Virtualisation with VMware, Hyper-V & Azure

DHCP, DNS, NPS, Active Directory, Group Policy

Microsoft O365 (Exchange, Teams, One drive, SharePoint, Defender, In-Tune etc)

Systems and Server backup Technologies

IIS Server

PowerShell

Microsoft SQL Server Installation and Maintenance

Experience working with SAN Technologies

Experience working with backup technologies

Good experience of managing firewalls, switches, AP’s and other network devices

In-depth knowledge of networking and security including, TCP/IP, OSI model, protocols and VLAN’s

Knowledge of server performance and optimising configurations

Experience of implementing industry standard security principles across the server and network environment

Works well in a team and by themselves

Excellent communication and organisational skills

Desirable

Cisco, WatchGuard and FortiGate switches and firewalls

Veeam Backup & Replication

Experience in Server and Network Hardening

Experience working with managed XDR solutions

Systems monitoring tool

Experience supporting ISO27001 accreditation