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IT Systems Manager - £30,000 to £40,000 - Altrincham

  • Altrincham, Cheshire
  • £30,000 - £40,000 per annum, negotiable
  • 20 applications
  • Job type: Permanent, full-time
  • Date:
  • Reference: 21173521
Posted by BD Recruitment

Title

IT Systems Manager

About the company

The company, a Microsoft Gold certified partner based in the Greater Manchester area, was formed in 1995 by a group of creative technologists. They are passionate about what they do. That passion has been put into practice for some of the biggest and most exclusive brands around. If you are passionate about using technology to help clients achieve their true potential then this could be an ideal company for you.

Job Description

This is an opportunity for an experienced Microsoft Systems Engineer, with a minimum of 5 years experience of Microsoft Server Products and Platforms, to join an established, innovative Microsoft Gold Partner in the Manchester area. As a successful candidate, you will work on new solutions for high profile, luxury retail brands and with internal infrastructure and development teams, using some of the latest technologies.

Our Systems Engineers are versatile individuals that work on both customer projects and support the internal teams, systems and infrastructure. As a Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, installing, migrating and configuring server infrastructures, planning and implementing enterprise and high availability infrastructures and designing and implementing network topologies and security. Alongside these primary responsibilities, there are some general tasks to support the company’s internal development teams and office environment. Excellent communication skills are essential as is a passion for technology and a drive to excel.

Out of hours support, including cover for weekends and holidays will be required on occasion.

Some travel to customer sites may be involved.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

A minimum of 5 years solid commercial experience of Microsoft Server Products and Platforms

Knowledge of Network Protocols / services and Network infrastructures

Knowledge of security technologies and services

Windows Server 2003 + (IIS, MSMQ, Active Directory, DFS, COM+, etc.) and Client operating systems

Virtualisation (Hyper-V, VMWare, VirtualBox)

SQL Server 2005 + (security, maintenance planning, installation, mirroring, performance tuning, replication, SSAS, SSRS etc.)

Exchange 2003 + (OWA, Active Sync, etc)

SharePoint 2007+ (Intranets, extranets, Security, Workflow, etc)

Team Foundation Server

Excellent communication skills

Desirable

Enterprise level firewall and VPN configuration

Knowledge of other Non-Microsoft platforms (Unix, Linux, Macintosh etc)

Cloud deployments (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, etc)

Microsoft Lync / VoIP

Software development skills (Visual Studio, C#, Powershell)

Microsoft Certification

The company are looking to pay £30,000 to £40,000, depending on the experience of the person. The company offer flexible working hours, easily accessible offices opposite the tram, train and bus station with free parking onsite, working from home, 25 days holiday and other standard benefits.

We welcome all applications irrespective of age, gender or religious persuasion.