Wintel Engineer
Wintel EngineerRate: £517.77 per day (Umbrella)
Location: Fully Remote (UK)
Contract Length: ASAP start to 31/12/2026
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance Required
Your new company
A leading organisation is seeking experienced Wintel Engineers to support and maintain critical Microsoft infrastructure within a secure and highly regulated environment. This is a fully remote opportunity for professionals who thrive in enterprise-scale infrastructure support and operational excellence.
Your new role
As a Wintel Engineer, you will be responsible for the administration, maintenance and support of Microsoft-based infrastructure, ensuring platform stability, security compliance, service availability and the successful delivery of infrastructure changes.
Key responsibilities
- Administer and support Windows Server environments across physical, virtual and Azure platforms.
- Support and maintain Azure Local solutions.
- Manage Active Directory, PKI, Group Policy, DNS and DHCP services.
- Perform server provisioning, patching, upgrades and lifecycle management.
- Work with Microsoft System Center technologies including Virtual Machine Manager, Configuration Manager, Operations Manager and Orchestrator.
- Support VMware and Hyper-V virtualisation platforms.
- Monitor system performance, capacity and availability.
- Execute Incident, Problem and Change Management activities in line with ITIL processes.
- Participate in Major Incident resolution and root cause analysis.
- Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures and runbooks.
- Ensure compliance with security, governance and audit requirements.
- Support disaster recovery and business continuity activities.
- Windows Server
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure Local
- Active Directory
- PKI
- DNS
- DHCP
- Group Policy
- Microsoft System Center Suite
- VMware
- Hyper-V
- Dell PowerStore
- Brocade SAN Switches
- Dell VNX
Essential skills and experience
- Active SC Clearance (mandatory)
- Strong Windows Server administration experience
- Microsoft Azure infrastructure support experience
- Knowledge and experience of Azure Local solutions
- Active Directory administration
- Experience with PKI, Group Policy, DNS and DHCP
- Microsoft System Center technologies including SCCM, SCOM, VMM and Orchestrator
- VMware and Hyper-V virtualisation support experience
- ITIL-based service management experience
- Experience working within secure and highly regulated environments
- Strong Incident, Problem and Change Management experience
- Experience producing and maintaining technical documentation
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