Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Windows Server - Banking

Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Windows Server - Banking

Excellent opportunity for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join a London-based International Bank as their new Senior Infrastructure Engineer. The successful candidate will be in the crucial position to build and lead the team to support key applications and troubleshoot any critical issues.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, execute and oversee procedures, policies and related training plans for project management and infrastructure administration.
• Owner of IT infrastructure technical framework and manage and establish priorities for maintenance, design, development and analysis of entire infrastructure, including server, storage, database, application, network, desktop, system monitoring.
• Conduct research and recommend changes in services, products, protocols and standards to support development efforts and infrastructure procurement. Maintain the IT management infrastructure and controls, considering legislative and regulatory requirements as well as Head Office standards and policies and industry best practices provided by eg ITIL and COBIT.
• Supervise IT Team and lead, direct and utilize knowledge on best practices in area related to infrastructure. Ensure that IT operations meet the required security and service levels along with other relevant corporate objectives. Control, monitor, and solve deviations from the normal IT service.
• Define, implement and manage IT Disaster Recovery and technical solution for organization.
• Defines and contributes to the principles that guide technology decisions .
• Designs and contributes to the implementation of an application and infrastructure architecture based on business requirements and IT strategies, as well as to rectify gaps and pain points within the current state
• Assesses the capacity and resource utilization of application and search tools, components, network, application platforms, application/integration/database servers, storage, security and management hardware and software. Responsible for developing, implementing, maintaining and monitoring technical solutions on network, telephony, server, storage, desktop, and application as per approved IT architecture or proposal
• Report and prepare strategies to maintain server infrastructure.
• Ensure apt security levels on network, infrastructure and Servers are maintained.
• Create and modifies the designs and architectures by reviewing end-user topology, security, performance, and interoperability requirements
• Ensure to practice IT asset management inclusive of component inventory maintenance and associated documentation.
• Negotiate with outsourcers, vendors and contractors for infrastructure-specific products and services secure.
• Perform feasibility studies for different upgrade projects, conversions and improvements
• Consults on application or infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to the technical architecture.
• Communicate IT management systems and controls to other groups as appropriate.
• Implement day-to-day IT checks and operational procedures on duty according to defined standards processes and procedures.
• Maintain relevant IT support process or procedure.
• Produce IT support management reports regularly.
• Ability to handle pressure and work effectively in demanding situations.
• Provide out of hours support if there is incident or other scheduled works.
• Answer phone call in case of emergency

Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, System Analysis or a related field. Or equivalent work experience.
• Typically has 7-10 years of experience in multiple IT areas with 2-4 years of relevant domain experience (data, network, application, systems, etc.).
• Requires advanced to expert level knowledge and understanding of architecture, application design, system engineering and integration.
• Experience with network, VMware, HP server, windows Active Directory domains and windows server operating systems, storage management, data backup solution, information security, and IT governance. CCNA,MCSE,VCP certification preferred
• SQL server database administration and scripting.
• Experience with Business Intelligence tools advantageous.
• Highly effective communication skills, both written and verbal

Interested? Please Apply!

Infrastructure Engineer Windows VMware Server Servers Storage Network Networks Applications Integration Security Hardware Software SQL Server Technical Solutions Architecture Application Design System Engineering HP Server Windows Active Directory Window Server Operating Systems CCNA CCNP CCNJ MCSE VCP

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, System Analysis or a related field. Or equivalent work experience.
• Typically has 7-10 years of experience in multiple IT areas with 2-4 years of relevant domain experience (data, network, application, systems, etc.).
• Requires advanced to expert level knowledge and understanding of architecture, application design, system engineering and integration.
• Experience with network, VMware, HP server, windows Active Directory domains and windows server operating systems, storage management, data backup solution, information security, and IT governance. CCNA,MCSE,VCP certification preferred
• SQL server database administration and scripting.
• Experience with Business Intelligence tools advantageous.
• Highly effective communication skills, both written and verbal