IT Operations Analyst

Location: Watford

Salary: £43,000 - £48,000 DOE plus package

Summary

One of the UK's leading engineering and infrastructure companies are looking to hire an experienced IT Operations Analyst to join their team in Watford to workon large-scale, high-impact IT projects.

This is an exciting role for a highly motivated candidate who likes to be part of team, be regularly challenged in an evolving environment and is driven by repeat successes. This role will provide exposure to the most recent infrastructure related technologies available today such as cloud services SaaS, PaaS, IaaS.

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide day-to-day operational support for on-premises and cloud-hosted server environments and networks.
- Work closely with the Application Support to help resolve service issue.
- Ensure that all network infrastructure, servers, and associated systems are maintained, supported, and developed to provide secure and available data services to 6500 IT users across 300 locations in the UK
- Lifecycle management and continuous service improvement of IT infrastructure.
- Support change control, testing, and deployment of infrastructure services.
- Work closely with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure high levels of service delivery.
- Always maintain IT security and assist in the upkeep of security accreditations.
- Strong operational skills and mindset.
- Mentor and be mentored - sharing environment where we succeed together
- Expect to identify and resolve issues - then monitor and design them out.
- Produce and ensure Service Operation guides are kept up to date.

Essential Skills and Experience

- Experience as an all round Microsoft Cloud Operations engineer
- Experience in Cloud Services, IaaS, PaaS, Microsoft Azure including Site recovery (ASR) and M365, Exchange Online, OneDrive, Teams etc
- Azure networking experience(private endpoints, Azure firewalls, VPNs, IP Groups etc)
- Expereince in Operations systems, Windows Desktop, Windows Server and Linux etc
- Strong understanding of Azure Application Proxies
- Excellent knowledge of the Microsoft infrastructure product stack including;

o Windows Server, Active Directory, Hyper-V and high availability failover clustering.
o Microsoft Data Protection Manager
o PowerShell scripting and automation

- Strong knowledge of resilient LAN and WAN infrastructure/technologies including;

o Physical layer - Switching / Routing / Firewall
o Virtual Layer - MPLS / VRF / SD-WAN Hypervisor Virtual network layers
o Application layer - IPv4&6 / DHCP / DNS / Active Directory Services

Get in touch with a copy of your CV to apply or get in touch for more details.

(Candidates must have full right to work in the UK)

Navartis Ltd is a specialist recruitment company supplying highly skilled technical and management professionals within the global Transportation, Civil Engineering & Utility industries, if you are seeking a new position our recruitment team can locate the opportunity to suit your needs.