Contract - inside IR35
Location - Reading
Duration - 6 months
This is for a large client based in Reading, with occasional travel to office.
Role / Principal Accountabilities:
1. Work with key stakeholders throughout the whole infrastructure lifecycle, providing comprehensive support to transformation and modernisation of the estate.
2. Act as a trusted advisor and bridge between the technology services team and stakeholders, provide regular progress updates, and flag any issues accordingly.
3. Support stakeholders to adopt and leverage the latest architecture practices, delivering effective, resilient services designs.
4. Provide leadership, coaching and development for the immediate team and act as an evangelist within the organisation for engineering practices.
5. Partner with Product owners and management to manage and clearly articulate demand planning and delivery against the projected backlog and book of work.
6. Continuous evolution of monitoring tools to ensure performance, availability and reliability of core infrastructure.
Skills & Experience Required:
1. End to end understanding of infrastructure systems architecture and design.
2. Demonstrates a strong understanding of end-to-end product lifecycle, as well as how technical systems work and interact.
3. Strong analytical skills and troubleshooting skills, with a solid understanding of operational support procedures.
4. Strong communication skills to work with SI partners onshore and offshore.
Knowledge Required:
1. Background in infrastructure engineering and delivery, supporting large scale infrastructure modernisation.
2. Previous proven experience of a range of infrastructure platforms such as HyperV, VMWare, AIX.
3. Experience of operating systems, including Linux, Unix, Windows.
4. Experience of Microsoft Azure or AWS.
5. Proficiency in infrastructure automation and orchestration with relevant tooling.
6. Exposure to Configuration Management Solutions such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SCCM, Intune, ARC.
7. Practical use and understanding of scripting languages.
8. Knowledge of operating system fundamentals including diagnostics, tuning, and monitoring of IO, Networks, CPU and Memory.
Desirable Skills:
1. SC clearance.
2. Utilities experience.
3. Exposure to container technology i.e. Docker, Kubernetes desirable but not essential.
4. Awareness of security assurance and design best practices i.e. NIST or CIS.
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