Infrastructure Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Work both independently and with the wider infrastructure team to support, sometimes at unsociable

hours, a broad range of enterprise infrastructure

• Work with architecture team members to design resilient, secure and performant infrastructure

solutions

• Assist in the resolution of incidents and problems, and own issues related to technology areas you

specialise in

• At all times work professionally and to high standards, applying industry best practise and our own

processes, defining them where they are absent

• Flexibility to travel occasionally to support projects, migrations etc occasionally across EMEA, USA and

beyond

Your Professional Experience and Skills:

• A minimum of five years infrastructure support and/or engineering experience, in at least some of the

technologies in use at Blinx and/or our customers

• Numerate and literate. Able to articulate complex technical matters in simple terms. Strong preference

for documentation to solidify consensus and plans

• Knowledge of ITIL processes and strong understanding of change, problem and incident management


• Experience balancing time between BAU and project. Able to manage own workload


• Curious and investigative by nature, seeks opportunities to enhance platforms and environments


• Self\-starter, able to identify, propose and implement improvement opportunities without prompting


• Knowledge of monitoring tools, ITSM, project management methodologies, document management

systems, diagramming etc advantageous

• Successfully contributed to several infrastructure projects including refreshes, relocations, upgrades

and greenfield deployments

Technical experience

Must have technical experience:

• An (ideally extensive\*) understanding of networking principles, routing, switching, VLANs, subnetting,

firewalls, Wi\-Fi…

• An (ideally extensive\*) understanding of hardware virtualisation (ideally VMWare ESX) and centralised

storage (fibre channel ideally)

• Infrastructure diagramming capability


• Familiarity with cloud networking principles, particularly Azure ExpressRoute


• Knowledge of at least one SD\-WAN solution


• Good understanding of the Office 365 suite in particular Exchange online and hybrid Exchange

integrations

• Competent Windows administrator covering Active Directory


• Excellent adherence to high documentation and record keeping, sharing knowledge with the rest of

Blinx in an accessible and up\-to\-date state

Nice to have technical competencies:

• Experience with Palo Alto and/or Fortinet firewalls \& remote access solutions


• Advanced networking principals such as BGP, OSPF, STP and a certification in Cisco networking or

Fortinet security

• HPE Aruba, Unifi and/or Cisco Meraki experience in substantial enterprise settings


• Hands\-on experience deploying enterprise LAN and Wireless solutions, including security platforms


• Hands\-on experience supporting and deploying enterprise scale VMWare clusters including HA/DRS

and DR/backup solutions such as Veeam/CommVault etc

• Direct experience of brocade fibre channel switching, iSCSI and HPE storage


• Experience dealing with physical data centre infrastructure such as room\-scale UPSs, fire suppression

systems, HVAC and so on

• On prem/hybrid Exchange, some exposure to SQL/Oracle/Linux etc advantageous


• Experience of at least one infrastructure monitoring tool, including how to integrate network,

virtualisation, storage etc components

Qualifications

• CCNP preferred


• Fortinet NSE4 preferred


• Microsoft Certified Professional in at least one of Exchange, Azure or Active Directory preferred


• A post\-high school (tertiary) qualification in Maths, English or Engineering preferred

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