Job Description

Based: Farnborough

You will be predominately office-based with some UK travel. This will enhance your career, so you can benefit from the culture of Ultra, build relationships and maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Wherever possible, we will consider a variety of working options to suit your lifestyle, whether that be hybrid home/office working, flexible working and part or full time employment. It\'s the \'innovating\' and \'empowering\' values that we ASPIRE to be. We welcome the challenge to work in new ways and have trust in you when getting the job done because we recognise, our business is our people.

The IT Infrastructure function in Ultra is responsible for developing, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing network infrastructure, server infrastructure, data communications, and telecommunications systems.

Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain SC level security clearance.

Responsibilities:

Establish, maintain and employ corporate guidelines for the management of systems infrastructure.

Manage virtual infrastructure, including performance optimization, troubleshooting, upgrades and capacity planning.

Manage M365 environment, including licensing, employee provisioning/deprovisioning, Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive support.

Perform server and network appliance installation, configuration, optimisation, and upgrades (software and hardware) as required.

Manage workstation imaging system ensuring image patch level and application suite is current.

Proactively monitor systems performance and ensure optimal operation of technical infrastructure.

Maintain up-to-date backup and recovery procedures, perform regular tests of these procedures.

Lead project-related activities such as research, documentation, and testing for new/proposed technical solutions.

Administer security, access, and utilisation of technical infrastructure (systems) and ensure a constant focus on information security.

Provide IT support to users as required.

Perform problem determination of systems infrastructure-related problems and identify potential causes and solutions.

Develop and maintain pertinent systems documentation for IT as well as end-users.

Manage the software and hardware inventory, including licensing of 3rd party software and computer/server room equipment.

Essential Working knowledge of:

IT Certification (Microsoft/CompTIA or Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems).

More than 7 years of IT experience including 3-5 years in a Server/Network administration role.

3-5 years of experience in the configuration and hardening of network and Microsoft server OSes including patch management, and disk encryption.

Administration experience in a Microsoft Active Directory environment including Group Policy and certificate authority management as well as PowerShell scripting.

Experience with Windows servers, Microsoft SQL, M365, firewalls, VPNs, networking, routing, switching, and IP telephony.

Experience with both VMWare and Microsoft virtualization technologies.

A strong customer support background including 1st/2nd line technical support to end-users in an ITIL environment.

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Here at Ultra we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusivity. Underpinned by our values, behaviours and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be the best version of yourself. We also believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures will increase our diversity of thinking, ensuring we successfully deliver to our customers.

We therefore do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also support requests for flexible working arrangements wherever possible.

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