Infrastructure Specialist
Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
£ 75,000 / year
Full Time
18-03-2025
Job Specifications
Infrastructure Specialist
City of London
£65,000 - £75,000
plus an on-call allowance of £6650
There may be weekend work and on-call with this role.
Hours will be on a rota basis and will be either be 8-4 or 9-5.
My client is looking for someone to plan, design, develop, and launch efficient operational systems to support core organisational functions; this includes IT Projects, Continual Service Improvement, and BAU.
• Provide 3rd line IT support and assist in the planning, design, development, and deployment of new services and enhancements
• Ownership of systems used for monitoring, backups, disaster recovery and security
patching.
• Ensure compatibility and interoperability on computing systems.
• Conduct research on hardware and software products
• Develop, document, communicate and enforce a policy and procedures for
standardising systems and software
• Maintain availability of Production systems to agreed service levels.
• Perform preventative maintenance checks and action when required.
• Support for overnight data warehouse schedule.
• Resolve issues escalated to the Infrastructure Operations team from the Service Desk
and other support teams within agreed timescales.
• Manage, build, support and maintain all server components within the environment.
• Demonstrate ability to restore services during disaster recovery situations.
YOU NEED:
• Microsoft technologies including Windows Server, Active Directory and SQL Server and/or Microsoft 365.
• VMware.
• cloud-based solutions such as AWS and Azure.
• Previous experience working with a variety of technology stacks for compute, storage, virtualisation and network products ideally consisting of Cisco UCS, HP Nimble, Pure
• DevOps principals and technologies such as Terraform and Ansible, and scripting languages
• backup/restore packages, advantageous to previously have used CommVault.
About the Company
i3 Resourcing provides bespoke IT & Change Recruitment Solutions to the London & International Insurance Markets. We employ state of the art candidate identification and tracking techniques to offer our insurance client base unrivalled access to the best talent working in the market today. Know more
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