Infrastructure Analyst

A market leading FTS50 company are looking to add an experienced infrastructure analyst to their small and agile team, after a very strong year of increased size and profitability. With over £10.5 billion in owned assets, they are a multinational company split across 40% in the UK and 60% across 11 sites in 7 European countries.
You will have the chance to travel across these sites, and work with industry heavyweights such as Amazon and DPD to name just a few of their household named clients.

Role & Responsibility:

• To act as Service Technical Owner for all of their IT infrastructure services; operating systems, networks, cloud and data centres

• Work closely with business owners to understand technical requirements and develop roadmaps to put them into production

• To ensure operational cyber resilience, making sure systems and services are managed according to the company's security standards

• Work closely with other teams to understand business demand planning

Skills & Experiences needed:

Essential:

• Excellent knowledge of common infrastructure technologies: OS, networking, Cloud & data centres

• Excellent knowledge of IT security systems - firewall, antivirus IDS etc.

• Proven experience with data centres and virtualized server environments

• Strong knowledge of a cloud service - ideally Azure as they are fully transferring to the cloud in the next 12 months

• Strong knowledge of SQL server

• Experience with network technologies LAN/WAN

• Strong communication skills to interact with internal stakeholder and external vendors

Desirable:

• Experience running services in Microsoft Azure

• CISSP Qualified

• Prince2 practitioner or PMI certification

• ITL Practitioner

Salary and Benefits:

• Basic salary in the range of £45,000-£55,000

• Generous bonus up to 25% paid yearly

• £455 per month cash car allowance or company car

• 36.25 working hours per week

• 25 days holiday

• Pension contribution doubled by employer up to 12%

• Life insurance

• BUPA health insurance

E: Michael.winter@wademacdonald.com

Applications are encouraged from all candidates meeting or exceeding the minimum criteria for the role regardless of age, disability, gender, orientation, race, religion or ethnicity.