Infrastructure Engineer SCCM

If you want to use your SCCM experience and be the expert in this area, read this!

We have this new and ambitious position waiting for you, where you will maintain and coordinate the Microsoft System Centre Suite. This is a for a very large Defence IT site, working as part of a very solid and established team. We need a consistent track record of working in a windows server support role with a good understanding of SCOM and MECM (SCCM). As our senior infrastructure engineer, you will have a hunger to drive monitoring improvements, learn, develop and see through positive change.

This role could also suit a strong Server Engineer wanting to further develop their skills.

You do need to be eligible for DV Clearance for this position.

Based 2 to 3 days on site in Portsmouth and 2 days from home.

What you'll be doing:

• ?Provide proactive server monitoring using current configured and deployed tooling
• Triage of alerts and remedy
• Log Incidents for faults captured
• Monitoring dashboards using configured and deployed tooling
• Create and deploy software and software update packages in MECM (SCCM)
• Create and deploy operating system images using MECM (SCCM)
• Test and document process and procedure
• Ensure system configuration, performance and availability
• Produce and maintain user documentation for the tooling systems

What you’ll bring:

• Solid experience within a windows server support role
• Experience with System Centre Operations Manager (SCOM)
• Experience with System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM/MECM)
• Experience using WSUS or another patching strategy (offline would be a bonus)

It would be great if you had:

• Experience with VMWARE
• Experience using dashboards in VROPS
• Experience with SQL Reporting Services
• Shell scripting in any language preferably Powershell
• Fault logging with a ticketing system

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Portsmouth 2 to 3 days
Security Clearance Level: Eligible for DV Clearance
Internal Recruiter: Jane
Salary: To £44K
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy extra days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.