Purpose of the role:
This is a technical, hands-on role for an innovative individual with five years' or more in-house network infrastructure experience. The role has an operational focus and requires effective communication with other members of the team, Managers, business partners, suppliers and the wider business.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure the network services (and relevant infrastructure) that are within your remit are performing in a manner that meets organisational requirements and that any necessary remedial action is carried out in line with the firm's expectations
- Help shape, develop and refine operational processes to improve confidentiality, integrity and availability
- Ensure network infrastructure components are kept up to date with necessary operating system and/or firmware updates
- Work with other IT teams to report and resolve software, hardware and operational problems
- Be capable of recovering key technologies in the event of a BC or DR scenario
Skills required:
- Proven track record in similar organisations supporting a medium sized business
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory and Windows Server operating systems
- An intermediate level of knowledge of IP networking principles, firewalls, LANs, WANs, QoS, SD-WAN or SASE
- Intermediate level knowledge of IaaS products (Azure)
- Intermediate level knowledge of remote access technologies (Citrix, VPN clients)
- A broad understanding of infrastructure principles from entry-level IT qualifications such as the CompTIA A+, Server+, Network+ and Security+ are essential