Technical Consultant - Windows/AD/Exchange/Virtualisation

aap3 ,
London, Greater London
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Salary: £50000.00 - £55000.00 per annum

Overview

Home and Field based role which will be adjusted appropriately to support current guidelines until restrictions lifted, but recruitment will go ahead Growing IT Service Provider looking to add to their team of Technical Consultants to support increasing customer demand in delivering technical migrations and installations. Offering variety across multiple client sites and a strong culture of employee welfare and training you will be well supported in your longer term career. Candidates must be able to demonstrate strong experience fundamentally across Windows Server environments to include deploying AD, Exchange and O365 migrations as well as virtualised environments deploying HyperV & and VMWare amongst a range of other skills. Any supporting technical accreditations will be an advantage, but support for professional development in this area will be provided. Operational Experience Requirements Experience working for a managed service provider or IT outsourcing company Experience working independently on technical migrations and installations Experience working as part of a busy team and keeping a constant dialogue flowing Experience working at customer sites and liaising with high-level executives Able to follow defined processes such as Change Management & Knowledge Management Knowledge of industry standard best practice for projects and implementations A commitment to knowledge sharing and clear, detailed documentation Can work to strict SLAs, project plans and KPIs Welcoming, personable, articulate, literate, conscientious Able to converse with all levels of colleagues, confidently and honestly, being able to ask for help and discuss ideas and techniques. The ability to explain technical concepts in lay terms without being patronising The ability to multi-task and manage time under pressure The ability to design and plan technical solutions. Technical Skills & Experience Core skills: strong background skills and experience on networking TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS. Server: Comprehensive knowledge of working in an MS Server 2008, 2012, 2016 environments and technologies. Exchange: Good working knowledge of installing, administrating, supporting & migrating MS Exchange 2010 / 2013 / 2016. Remote Desktop Services: experienced at implementing and maintaining RDS, brokers, gateways and RemoteApp. Specific experience with managing printing in remote desktop environments (2016, 2012R2 and 2008R2). Should be able to implement and troubleshoot single sign on. Active Directory: Comprehensive knowledge of installing, migrating & administrating Active Directory. NLB & DFS advantageous. Citrix and Netscaler: experience implementing and maintaining Citrix environments above 6.5. Azure: experience implementing, configuring and migrating to Azure required. Azure Qualifications advantageous. Virtualisation: strong knowledge of working with hypervisor environments both VMWare and Hyper-V, Hyper-V clustering knowledge a plus. DNS: experience, including different types of DNS records and how to troubleshoot local and global DNS issues, create A records & MX records. SPF/DKIM, BIND knowledge advantageous. Mail flow troubleshooting experience; email routes over the internet and via third party filters, creating SPF records. Office 365: Experience configuring, migrating to and managing standard and hybrid Office 365 environments. ADFS/ Azure AD Connect knowledge a plus. Office 365 Qualifications advantageous. Windows: Comprehensive knowledge of troubleshooting Windows 7, 8, 10 on a domain, including imaging, GPO and scripts. Networking: Good knowledge of troubleshooting network issues (TCP/IP) and identifying points of failure, configuring and troubleshooting IPsec VPNs using multiple routers & creating VLANs, configuring managed switches and firewalls. Internet Circuits: Experience liaising with third party ISPs to resolve internet outages or troubleshooting WAN v LAN issues. File Servers: Experience migrating file servers, user profiles and other data. DHCP: Experience with deploying multiple DHCP servers with multiple scopes across multiple sites. Server Provisioning: Should be able to install and configure servers so that they are in a production state. You should therefore be able to install Manufacturer drivers and system tools and configure them to best practice. 3rd Party Escalations: Experience escalating to and working with hardware and software manufacturers, e.g. Microsoft, VMWare, HP Knowledge of SANs advantageous Knowledge of varied cloud backup and on-prem devices advantageous Knowledge of Backup Exec and tape loaders beneficial Ability to troubleshoot Third Party software and liaise with their support desks Knowledge of Cloud desktops / working with Data Centres Beneficial Knowledge of monitoring tools beneficial Knowledge of Mimecast or cloud email security beneficial Knowledge of ticketing systems and working to ITSM tools Knowledge of SCCM, SCOM and other Systems Centre tools beneficial. Autopilot/ Intune deployment knowledge advantageous. Qualifications - Desirable Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) - Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Hyper-V MCP or VMware Certified HPE or Dell Storage certified Cisco or HPE networking certified ITIL Foundation Azure Certifications. For more information on both contract and permanent roles via aap3, industry news and updates, check out our brand new website, follow our aap3 Recruitment page on Linkedin and follow us on twitter aap3recruitment This job was originally posted as www.cwjobs.co.uk/job/89933654

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