Systems Engineer

Gleeson Recruitment Group have just been briefed on a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Systems Engineer to join a leading Nottingham based business.

Reporting to the IT Infrastructure & Security Manager, the Systems Engineer is part of the IT infrastructure team. They support and maintain the businesses Network and Server Infrastructure, ensuring maximum uptime, availability and adherence to IT Policies and Processes.

IT infrastructure support across all locations, including Stores, Head Office, Tech Centre and Virtual workloads. Coverage includes core business operational hours and out-of-hours 24x7 on-call service for priority issues. Providing proactive support and maintenance, system monitoring, backups and capacity planning for on-premises, hosted and cloud environments for 1500+ Servers and 1700+ Network devices. Responding to incidents logged directly or escalated from 2nd line support teams, the Systems Engineers are the network and IT infrastructure custodians, including the management of Operating Systems, physical and virtual servers, hosting, and system security. The engineer works across support and project-based activities, providing remote and onsite capability as required.

The role requires a close working relationship with the global IT teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide 2nd and 3rd Line support as defined by the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

• 2nd Level Support takes over incidents that cannot be solved immediately with the means of 1st Level Support.
• If necessary, it will request external support, e.g., from software or hardware manufacturers.
• The aim is to restore a failed IT Service as quickly as possible.
• If no solution can be found, the 2nd Level Support passes on the Incident or Problem Management Team.

Provide 3rd-line support, as defined by the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), for internal systems where no external vendor support is available or is not required for the nature of the incident.

• Ensure system monitoring alerts are responded to per the KPIs defined by the Operational or Service Level agreements.
• Provide 3rd-line support for all the business's physical and virtual IT assets. Liaising with Application Owners and business functions, including;

1. Dell and HP Server Hardware
2. Microsoft and Linux Operating environment
3. VMware Virtual server environment
4. Data stores and backup devices (NetApp/Comvault)
5. Cloud and Hosted Infrastructure
6. Microsoft 365 Applications and SSO
7. Information Security Systems
8. Security Appliances
9. Cisco and Meraki Networking
10. Data Centre Facilities management
11. Change Management
12. Accurate Documentation

• As defined by ITIL escalation procedures for 3rd Line support services to Desktop Analysts and Store Support Teams, be an escalation point.
• Liaise with third-party vendors concerning application/software support and hardware maintenance.
• Daily tasks and duties, as defined in the ISMS policies and procedures, including but not limited to:

1. Successful data retention and back policies
2. System monitoring
3. Endpoint security management and reporting

Key Skills

Linux/Unix Operating Systems (RedHat, SUSE and Oracle)

1. Installation and low level configuration
2. Server Administration
3. Management of Printer Queues
4. Scripting / CRON / Batch Jobs
5. System Patching and Updates
6. Application Installation
7. Storage Management
8. User account administration
9. Security and Compliance

Windows Server Operating Systems (Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019)

1. Installation
2. Administration
3. PowerShell scripting
4. User account management
5. System Updates and Housekeeping
6. Security and Compliance

Server administration tools

1. DHCP and DNS configuration
2. Active Directory User and Computer administration console to manage Objects, including Organisation Units, Computer Objects, User objects, User attributes
3. Group Policy Administration
4. Domain Health and Security diagnostics
5. Automation and replication

• Enterprise Storeage Management (NETAPP), Snapshots, Replication, Recovery
• Datacentre Migrations and Service Transformation
• Configuration, OS Imaging & Deployment, Software deployment, patch management, reporting, scripting, and problem resolution
• Software Packaging, Unattended Installs, Software Deployment
• Good understanding of the OSI model
• IP Networking, understanding of core protocols, IPv4 addressing and subnetting, IP routing protocols.
• Core Infrastructure services, DNS and DHCP, Network Policy Server, RADIUS, VPN
• Firewall Administration
• Management of server room facilities

Highly Desirable

• Meraki SD-WAN
• Linux Serevr Administration
• Palo Alto Firewall
• Net-App SAN ON-TAP
• Oracle Server
• Comvault Backup Solutions
• VMware vCentre/ESXi

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