Network Infrastructure Manager

Woking, Surrey

£45000 - £50000

35 hour flexi working week Parking, Private healthcare scheme, Stakeholder pension opportunities, 25 days holiday per year.

An expanding software consultancy and development company providing tailored solutions to a variety of different industry areas, supporting organisations worldwide is seeking a Network Manager to influence and provide direction to their IT and Hosted systems, managing the virtualised environment built on Hyper-V housing Windows 2008 R2 and 2012 Servers running a variety of applications including .NET & SQL Server.

Duties:

• Establish and maintain processes for monitoring and maintaining server, infrastructure & network performance & security
• Build, maintain and deploy Hyper V servers.
• Maintain server and network infrastructure with all latest patches and updates as required.
• Maintain Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Exchange and SQL server
• Responsibility for identifying ways to improve system scalability, performance and reliability.
• Work with Product Managers to identify future requirement and suggest new server technologies.
• Assist with the deployment of our software applications to infrastructure.
• Work with ISO team as required to maintain ISO[please apply by clicking on the blue button on this web page] processes and compliance
• Work with the SQL Database Administrator to ensure optimal performance of all database servers
• Ensure all processes for backups, disaster recovery, server and PC recovery are functioning and available

Essential Requirements:

• Microsoft qualifications in relation to administration or networks (MCSE, MCSA, MCITP)
• Proven experience of building and maintaining Microsoft infrastructure including:
• Windows Server 2003, 2008 & 2012
• Microsoft Hyper V
• DHCP, DNS and Active Directory
• Microsoft Exchange 2003 - 2015
• Internet Information Server 7.0, 7.5 & 8.0
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2012
• Comprehensive knowledge of TCP/IP protocols and configuration
• Comprehensive knowledge of PC and Server performance and optimal configuration
• Proven experience of managing firewalls, routers, switches and other network infrastructure

Desirable

• Experience of working with SANs (NextGen would be advantageous)
• Experience with working with Watchguard Firewall products
• Knowledge of Team Foundation Server and Sharepoint 2013
• Good knowledge of Windows Powershell, vbScript and DOS command languages
• Experience of maintaining PBX and other telephony hardware