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  • Basildon, Essex
  • £40,000 to £45,000
  • (Permanent)
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Had enough of the commute and expense? Looking to work locally for an established technical company with great opportunities and a share in the profits? Read on…

This is a fast growing (SaaS) solution provider based in Basildon, Essex, providing an enterprise class online communication system to various markets.

Their friendly, dynamic and creative team are working with the latest technologies, pushing boundaries to enhance and expand their solution while offering their clients 1st class support using cutting edge architecture to provide a resilient and robust platform.

About the Role

A great opportunity for a hands-on IT manager with suitable DevOps experience to take ownership and complete responsibility for their existing production and back-office IT operations, having the ability to communicate and present ideas and solutions to the relevant directors, together with the confidence and skills to implement.

The windows based production infrastructure includes both virtualised and non-virtualised servers within a clustered/HA environment, hosted on HP blade servers and fibre SAN arrays.

The successful candidate will have responsibility for ensuring seamless continuity of all systems. Therefore the role will include system monitoring using a number of tools, system updates, backups, data storage and fault-finding, management of our business continuity strategy, disaster recovering plan and IT security in relation to their contractual obligations.

Skills required

- Proven hands-on experience is a must with HP blade systems, virtualisation, networks, a genuine understanding and exposure of iLO, SNMP, cluster/HA, Raid, SAN.
- At an OS/Application level, the candidate must have set-up and managed Window Server 2012, Active Directory, GPO, Hyper-V , Clustering (including MSSQL), VPN, vLans, SQL Server, Windows Services and Web Applications (IIS)
- Although not essential, having exposure to security aspects, TSQL or having a BSc/BA or MSc/MA in computer science, engineering or relevant field will be a plus.
- It would be expected candidates have experience and ability to produce and amend documents on a technical level, taking ownership of any change control requirements and processes and be able to manage staff accordingly.

Want to find out more?

Send your CV, if you believe you have proven experience, skill-set and passion to work within an extremely technical environment for a SaaS provider, and are looking for the cost savings and reduced travelling time a local company can offer.

Other benefits include:

- Exceedingly competitive salary
- Annual profit share
- Company pension
- 28 days paid holiday (incl. Bank Holidays)
- Friendly, dynamic, creative company
- Great prospects and personal growth

They look forward to receiving your CV and speaking with you.

Please note: They are unable to sponsor work permits, therefore this position is only available to candidates that are UK Citizens or have an existing work permit allowing them to work in the UK.