IT Infrastructure Engineer - O365 Azure
London (some WFH)
£500 - £550 p/d, inside IR35
Initial 3 month duration
Opportunity for an Infrastructure Engineer with Office 365 expertise to join the IT Department of a well-known, public-facing organisation of several thousand IT users, providing transport services to millions across the UK. You'll be joining at an exciting time, supporting a significant transformation roadmap as the business separates IT from group and modernises IT infrastructure services and solutions, shifting to cloud-first architecture.
You will work collaboratively as an Infrastructure Engineer, providing BAU and project support across the full infrastructure environment. However, you will be the primary Office 365 and Azure Subject Matter Expert, with your work focused largely on the Microsoft Office 365 stack including Azure, Azure AD, Exchange online, Teams, Intune, SharePoint etc.
The position will be a 50/50 mix of BAU infrastructure support, administration and project work. Project work is varied, across Office 365, separation of 60+ apps and shift to Cloud platforms (Azure; Decommissioning of on-prem DC), Citrix upgrade, MPLS to SDWAN across 40+ sites, various EUC hardware deployments etc. You will also support the general administration and maintenance of IT infrastructure and systems and act as a 3rd line escalation point for tickets escalated up from the Service Desk.
Minimum required skills and experience
- Experience working as a senior / 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer on Microsoft Technologies in similar scale environment.
- Office 365 skills spanning Azure AD, Exchange Online, Teams, Intune, SharePoint.
- Active Directory / Group Policy / DNS / DHCP / WSUS
- Managing / maintaining images
- Windows Server
- Provisioning / Managing / maintaining VMs (VMWare)
- Scripting (PowerShell /Power Automate/ VBScript)
- Expert documentation abilities
- Experience using ITSM tools and strong understanding of ITSM (ITIL) best practices
- Confidence in managing stakeholders and suppliers.
Beneficial skills and experience (non-essential)
- Citrix XenApp experience including managing Citrix farms and zones
- General Networking knowledge
- NetApp
- .... Full job description available.