Applications Specialist focused upon Oracle (inc chance to learn Maximo) REF 826

Job Title - Infrastructure Consultant
Location - East Leeds
Salary - £38k - £45
Sector - IT Services
Hours - 9-5 (some flexibility)
Benefits - 10% Non Cont Pension + 24 Days Hols + BUPA + Free Parking
Non Financial Benefits:
Deepen your Oracle skills with training from Oracle consultants
Open career path into management, SME, Project Management or Technical Consultancy
Develop Cloud expertise AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud
Develop skills in Websphere and Maximo
Keywords: Infrastructure, Cloud, Helpdesk, DBA, Oracle, Preventative Maintenance, IT Support, Networking, Virtualization, Asset Management, EAM, Troubleshoot, JVM, J2EE, Middleware, IBM WebSphere, Integration, Scripting
A software solution partner to many leading Global corporates with deep experience implementing EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) solutions across a range of industries such as oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, utilities, facilities management, transport, and power generation.
Together with market leading vendor solutions they also have an in-house developed mobility solution software product which brings asset management software to the mobile or field technician on mobile devices and tablets, and a mature and developed cloud solution Managed Service offering which has seen substantial growth in contracted major blue chip clients.
An experienced Infrastructure Consultant is now required to assist in the smooth running and operation of both cloud hosted environments as well as locally managed infrastructure. Experience supporting, maintaining and tuning database platforms (Oracle, SQL and DB2), including backup plans and patching regimes would be beneficial. Experience working with Oracle in a support role would be a distinct advantage as our supported client portfolio under the Oracle platform continues to grow.
As an Infrastructure Support Consultant, you will provide first and second line support and undertake technical project work as necessary. This will incorporate the administration and continued improvement of all IT systems including:
Providing full support for physical servers, virtual servers and end user workstations
Support of Oracle platform systems including system replication for DR and backup/mirroring
Configuring, monitoring and maintaining the company’s infrastructure in Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, and DHCP
Maintaining the company’s public cloud-based services hosted primarily in Rackspace, but also including IBM, AWS and Azure
Taking a proactive approach to the monitoring and patching of company systems using tools such as Netwrix, Nexpose, WSUS and Site24x7
Skill Requirements - Essential:
Experience working within or implementing ITIL-based and ITIL-centric procedures
Exposure to virtualisation technologies (VMWare/HyperV)
Experience of firewalls, switches, routers and VPN/Load balancing technologies
Network Security, Passwords and IT Policy
Database administration and configuration skills including Oracle, SQL and DB2 (Oracle skills and experience would be a distinct advantage)
Knowledge and skills with Microsoft Office 365/Microsoft Networking/PowerShell
Skill Requirements - Preferable:
A focus on security in order to allow our staff to do their jobs efficiently whilst keeping our systems as secure as possible
Demonstrable experience in designing/applying IT/infrastructure measures to improve or guarantee adequate security standards are met (ISO27001)
Good knowledge of Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, WSUS, etc.
Telephony systems including desk telephones, tablets and mobile devices
Microsoft PowerShell/Chef/Puppet/Docker/Octopus
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