Senior Infrastructure / Support Engineer - £40,000 - £50,000

A Financial Services company based in Central London is currently looking for a stand-alone Senior IT Systems Engineer to provide 1^st to 3^rd Line support at the required service levels for all company departments. The Senior IT Systems Engineer will also be responsible for the management of IT Systems/Infrastructure across the business.

The ideal candidate will come from an environment where they have worked solely on their own as an IT support engineer/Manager. Preferably with a user base of around 20-50 users. Knowledge of AWS cloud environments would be highly regarded. Extensive technical knowledge of networking/telephony/VOIP and IT infrastructure is required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide 1^st to 3^rd Line support at the required service levels for all company departments.
• Responsible for the day-to-day installation, configuration, management and monitoring of the server infrastructure, and the installation, configuration and maintenance of physical and cloud-based Microsoft and Linux servers and PCs.
• Responsible for the management, monitoring, maintenance and provisioning of the following services: Amazon AWS Cloud environment, Active Directory, Microsoft suite, G-Suite, JIRA suite, VOIP systems, System Health Checks and Company CRM.
• Manage and monitor the active directory and physical hardware support, including networking.
• User management, including setup and installation of hardware and third-party services.
• Build and manage Cloud environments to enable application deployments.
• Engage with IT Delivery to plan and coordinate solution transition and application of upgrades.

Experience Required:

• Proven track record of AWS setup, management and monitoring (S3, RDS, EC2 etc.)
• Security and compliance (e.g. Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Cloud compliance/auditing/monitoring tools)
• Telephony knowledge including VOIP/SIP and mobile technologies, and IT/ICT further education qualification
• Microsoft stack configuration management for the Microsoft stack
• Active directory & physical hardware configuration, management and support
• Networking is essential
• Professional knowledge of JIRA suite, G-Suite, VOIP systems and MySQL
• Linux, Windows and AWS certifications would be desirable but not essential

Please send your CV to Alex Simmons for immediate consideration.