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    Senior Windows Engineer

    £85000 - £90000 per annum

    Job Description

    Senior Windows Engineer

    A Financial Services company based in central London is currently seeking a Senior Windows Engineer at VP level, to get involved in a mix of project, operational, and administration duties.

    This mix of duties will centre around a range of projects based on Microsoft Windows, VMware, and Cloud technologies, as well as responding to service requests in a timely manner.

    You will be:

    • Providing support where appropriate in responding to service requests, and being a point of escalation for junior members of the team.
    • Supporting and managing the Windows server estate.
    • Supporting and managing Cisco infrastructure.
    • Designing and building several infrastructure applications running on windows platforms such as Citrix ADC/Xen App.
    • Security management utilising next generation security tools.
    • Managing the VMware/VSphere estate including VMware hosts, VCentre and Site Recovery manager across sites.
    • Assist in developing DELL/Pure SAN solutions to meet business needs by means of leveraging metro clustering and software integration.
    • Participate in monitoring and managing Server resources (disk space, event logs, backups etc.) and applications such as MS Exchange.
    • Participating in monitoring network performance and availability using tools such as Solarwinds and Azure Monitor.
    • Document Windows Server backup for on-prem/cloud and restore procedures, including disaster recovery procedures that rely on technology such as Netbackup Enterprise VMWare features.
    • Be able to contribute to routine and project hardware and software upgrades.
    • Participate in the strategy for infrastructure on-prem and cloud.

    Your experience:

    • You will have strong experience in the following technologies:

    Windows Server and file servers, Windows networking including TCP/IP, name resolution, IIS and MS Exchange and supporting email infrastructure, Active Directory, Cisco UCS, VMWare ESX / VSphere, Capacity and Performance analysis and monitoring, Active Directory, Cisco UCS, VMWare ESX / VSphere

    • Experience in supporting applications and servers, as well as project work.
    • Good organisation and verbal and written communication skills.

    The role requires the candidate to participate on shift and an on-call rota.

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