Microsoft Infrastructure Consultant
- Full-time
- Department: IT support & Infrastructure
Company Description
We pledge "to prove IT can make a real difference to our customer's businesses". We work hard to ensure we understand what our customers need from their technology solutions and then we deliver.
We are an award-winning company who provide world class customer service; we think big and we hire great people. Version 1 are more than just another IT services company - we are leaders in implementing and supporting Oracle, Microsoft and AWS technologies.
Invest in us and we’ll invest in you; if you are driven, committed and up for a challenge, we want to meet you.
Job Description
- Support multiple clients across multiple technologies
- Produce high-quality documentation to support workarounds and/or resolutions to assist in knowledge transfer and efficiencies
- Assist internal IT teams and provide advice and guidance where appropriate in relation to incidents, service requests and/or projects to ensure the successful completion of tasks
- Work within a structured ITIL / ISO20000 IT Service Management environment.
- Using industry and company best practice and information, provide improvement and efficiency suggestions to existing team procedures and processes on an ongoing basis
- Provide expertise to Projects and Business Service Requests as required to ensure tasks and milestones are achieved in a timely manner.
- Collaborating with various teams with a view to providing an excellent service to clients
- Excellent presentation and reporting skills arising from customer facing and on-site experience
- Very strong verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills are required
- Shadowing of technical leads
- Technical lead for smaller projects
Qualifications
- 5+ years working in a technical role
- Ideally over 3 years’ experience in Microsoft technologies working in a large enterprise environment
- Part of a team that has delivered successful projects for clients
- Proven analytical and problem resolution skills and methodologies
- Ability to work on own initiative and work well within a team
- Good team member with good communication skills at all levels of seniority
- Good organisational, administrative & documentation skills
- Proven experience is working under strict process control methodologies, e.g. ITIL
- The ability to develop relationships with staff and clients
- Ability to problem solve and troubleshoot incidents
- Ability to build relationships with clients
- Consultancy/project delivery experience with client facing background
- ITIL V3 foundation
- Delivery of key project technical tasks
Technical Skills
- Certification: One from MCSA/MCP in Server, Office365 or Azure
- Certification: One from VMWare, Hyper-V, AWS, SAN, AV, Citrix, Firewall, WAF or Backups,
- Excellent Windows Server 2008\2012\2016 implementation & administration skills
- Excellent working knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory and DNS
- Expert knowledge of Active Directory and Group Policy
- Excellent knowledge of backup solutions and principles
- Excellent Windows client OS skills - Windows 7, 8.x & 10.
- Good broad technical knowledge across Public Cloud (AWS, Azure etc)
- Understanding of Cloud & infrastructure integration
Desirable skills
- Additional infrastructure skills such as networking / etc. would be beneficial.
- Project management experience e.g. Prince 2
Additional Information
Simon O'Regan
Version 1 Talent Acquisition Team
We are an equal opportunities employer. Please refer to our Diversity & Inclusion statement located at:
https://www.version1.com/careers/culture/