Permanent job opportunity.
The IT Systems Engineer operates within the IT Operations Team to deliver a stable, secure, high performing Technology Platform and Wide Area. They will be responsible for ensuring that performance benchmarks for the network and business critical systems are met.
Key responsibilities
- This role will focus on IT Infrastructure, Information Security, Stability, Performance, End User Support, Project Delivery
- Actively protect information systems and technology environments from security breaches and threats, from both internal and external sources.
- Development and testing of disaster recovery plans
- Maximise uptime of networks, servers and information systems.
- Actively monitor and report on network sensors
- Create and edit network monitoring sensors and structures within the Network Operations Wide Area Network monitoring platform.
- Implement risk minimisation / mitigation procedures for all system modification and IT project work.
- Proactive scaling of the Wide Area Network, IaaS and SaaS solutions as well as self-hosted server infrastructure
- Previous administration of large scale environments for a medium to large organisation.
- Experience in infrastructure management (Veeam, Mimecast, VMWare, Backups)
- Experience in Cloud Services management (AWS AND/OR Azure
- Expert knowledge of TCP / IP networking, routing protocols and DNS principles.
- High level knowledge of the Microsoft server environment and Active Directory management.
- High level knowledge and enterprise experience in development, testing and deployment of Windows network configuration via Microsoft Group Policy.
- High level knowledge of Microsoft Powershell to administer Microsoft server based systems and applications.
- Ability to administer corporate level LAN, Wi-Fi and WAN solutions.
- High level knowledge of network security, e.g. UTM, DMZ and firewall solutions.
- Experienced in administration of numerous server operating systems and hypervisor including but not limited to Linux / UNIX, Windows, VMware / Hyper-V.
- First hand exposure to cloud solutions, IaaS and/or SaaS administration, including but not limited to Office 365, AWS and Salesforce.
- Some programming / scripting / coding capability.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology / Computer Science related fields
- Industry Certifications in Microsoft Server, Cisco, Juniper, Sophos
To apply online, please click on the appropriate link below. Alternatively, for a confidential discussion, please contact Vincent Cote Boucher at vincentcb@sharpandcarter.com.au
