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Prime Meridian Direct Recruitment 2023/2024
Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified candidates for Prime Meridian Direct Recruitment 2023/2024.
We are recruiting to fill the following position below:
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Job Title: Senior IT Engineer
Introduction
A well-established financial services company seeks to employ a Senior IT Engineer who has a completed IT Degree and at least 5 years experience in a related role. The successful candidate will assist with providing 2nd and 3rd line technical support, managing servers, assisting with network design and capacity planning, and overseeing workstation hardware, software, and peripheral devices. You’ll also be responsible for managing the Helpdesk system, implementing IT security policies and procedures, and performing server and security audits. You’ll work on server upgrades, maintenance fixes, and vendor-supplied patches, and manage and maintain the storage environment. This role requires monitoring network performance and providing network performance statistics and reports, recommending and scheduling network improvements, upgrades, and repairs, and providing guidance to junior team members.
Duties & Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Provide 2nd and 3rd line technical support.
- Perform Server Management (Domain, Exchange, AD, File, Print, and Storage).
- Assist with network design and capacity planning, including setting up of vlans and other network configurations.
- Oversee installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of end user workstation hardware, software, and peripheral devices
- Take ownership of the Helpdesk system.
- Assist with strategies for client/server implementations, and the infrastructure required to support those strategies.
- Assist with new server systems, applications, and hardware;
- Network, server, and device capacity and alert monitoring and management
- Implement policies, procedures, and technologies (including firewalls) to ensure IT Security.
- Check the help desk database for entries on server and server resource issues; prioritize and respond to help desk tickets as appropriate.
- Plan and implement server upgrades, maintenance fixes, and vendor-supplied patches.
- Provide telecommunications support
- Recommend and execute modifications to the server environment in order to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance.
- Develop and maintain server and network documentation.
- Provide guidance to junior members of the team.
- Administer equipment, hardware and software upgrades.
- Practice asset management, including maintenance of network component inventory and related documentation and technical specifications information.
- Perform server and security audits
- Perform and maintain system backups and recovery via backup software.
- Monitor and test network performance and provide network performance statistics and reports.
- Recommend, schedule, and perform network improvements, upgrades, and repairs.
- Manage and/or provide guidance to junior members of the team.
- Assist in setting up and maintaining a Change management system
- Assist in managing and maintaining the Storage environment
Desired Experience & Qualification
Desired Education and Exeperience:
- IT related Degree – ie: BSc IT, BSc Computer Science, or similar. Knowledge & Experience
- At least five years’ equivalent work experience
- Knowledge of the following will be beneficial, but is not a requirement: Fortigate Firewalls, HP Procurve Switches, Networking/VLANs, EMC Storage.
- Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining all manners of server hardware and associated network equipment.
- Familiarity with TCP/IP and other network protocols, firewall management, and operating system configuration.
- General knowledge of storage technologies such as SAN or NAS, as well as Active Directory/Global Catalogue.
How to Apply
Interested applicants should kindly visit the company website to get more details and submit the application(s).