Infrastructure Engineer / Systems Administrator recruitment

The Company

Robert Half Financial Services Technology is seeking a high-calibre, Senior Infrastructure Engineer to provide design 3rd/4th line support capabilities within a highly-skilled IT team deploying supporting a varied, complex hedge fund technical infrastructure in the heart of the West End of London.

Our client has created a supportive environment where learning is encouraged through practical experience in a diverse range of leading edge technologies (SAN, VM Ware, networking) as well as investment to obtain Microsoft Cisco certifications. They also have an extremely flat, meritocratic structure and as the most senior Infrastructure Engineer in the organisation you will be in the prime position for future management responsibilities.

The Role

The Wintel Engineer's key responsibilities for their London office are:
- Working on a range of projects involving the design deployment of various state of the art infrastructures including: Windows Server, SAN, VM Ware networks.
- Provide third line support and act as a point of escalation for first second line engineers
- Assisting 2nd line with more complex support calls on rare occasions providing day-to-day support of IT systems, networks and databases if required.
- Assisting with hardware planning and the maintenance of system upgrades and enhancements as required
- Producing and maintaining procedures and documentation

Essential skills:

The Infrastructure Engineer must have a strong, demonstrable track record with design, deployment and third line support of the following technologies:
- MS Windows Server 2008
- Active directory, DHCP, DNS, Group Policy
- MS Exchange 2007 and / or 2010
- SAN design in attached servers, Fibre Channel, iSCSI
- VM Ware (VSphere 4 and / or 5)
- MS SQL*Server 2005 and / or 8 - basic administration, backups, stored procedures etc
- Working knowledge of networking such as CISCO IOS, switches, routers, vLANs etc.

Ideal experience/knowledge:
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server administration
- Powershell
- Blade related technologies
- MS SharePoint 2007 and / or 2010
- Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop
- ITIL
- Financial services
- MCITP Enterprise Administrator, Server Administrator or Messaging Administrator 2010

Salary Benefits

The successful Wintel Engineer or Infrastructure Engineer will be paid a base of £50 - 60,000 + bonus in the West End of London. The company will also pay for training in Microsoft (e.g. MCITP ) Cisco (e.g. CCNA) certifications.

Please send your CV to Robert Half Technology for consideration for interviews next week.

Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to equal opportunity and diversity. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply.