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Role: 2nd Line Support & Pre-Sales Engineer - Microsoft Location: South East London / Kent Salary - Up to £40,000 DOE Plus benefits Great opportunity to join a growing and ambitious IT reseller with a drive to develop a managed services business stream and help define our cloud offerings. My client works closely with the likes of HPE, Dell EMC, VMware, Microsoft and many others. Their expertise is in servers, storage and virtualisation. Joining a small and focused team you will have a lot of opportunity to develop new skills and take a leading role in the managed services business. Job Role In this role you could be involved in a number of different functions, providing great variety within the position. There are two main functions, one is supporting the sales team technically, helping design customer solutions, verifying quotations technically and dealing with suppliers. The second is managing and supporting customers environments remotely. This would primarily focus around Microsoft technologies. Experience of the following technologies are required Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and above skills, including Active Directory Microsoft Hyper-V Experience of Microsoft SharePoint Experience of backup solutions like Veeam Experience of Microsoft SQL server Knowledge of Microsoft SCCM a bonus Knowledge of Microsoft Intune and Autopilot a bonus Knowledge of Microsoft Azure or AWS a bonus Knowledge of Office 365 VMware ESX design, installation and administration would be a bonus Continuum RMM experience would be a benefit (now Connectwise) Proven experience in troubleshooting and resolution Good time management skills, self-disciplined, can work as a team and independent Excellent communication skills, written and verbal Basic Networking knowledge, to cover DNS, Routing and Firewall's Outline of Tasks - 95% remote may require several Onsite visits per Customer per Quarter Creating Gold images for specific teams to be rolled out (Staff and Contractors) Patch Management of Windows environments Patching of Physical Hardware that manages the environment Creating shares and providing access roles based on employee access level Daily monitoring and management of a Windows environments Creating LUN's and sharing them out to relevant VM's May require some out of hours work Windows 10 and Windows Server Log analysis for fault finding Monitoring backups on a daily and weekly basis Management of various Firewall solutions Travel The role is office based primarily at my clients office nr Dartford. You will be required to work on customer sites, travel to customer meetings, training and supplier events.

Lead IT Architect Based: South East / London About the role You will work closely with business and technology teams to ensure that proposed technical solutions align with objectives. You will play an integral role in building a holistic view and roadmap of technology strategy, processes and technology roadmaps. You will be experienced in working in a fast paced, multi-stakeholder environment, with the ability to think both analytically and strategically, with the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders where necessary. At the core of what you do will be your ability to build strong relationships, assimilate and analyse information and collaborate with those around you to help deliver effective business outcomes. Your ambition to succeed and mindset is as important as experience. We are fixated on growth and success in the role will be driven by your ability to maintain focus on things that matter. The successful candidate will need to be comfortable working independently, collaborating with teams and managing a portfolio of concurrent projects. What you'll do Provide technical leadership, direction and governance to our teams Work closely with the product development teams to identify suitable architecture/technical solutions for various initiatives and projects Identify and own delivery of non-functional requirements such as Extensibility, Reusability, Performance, Scalability and Security Collaborate with Product and Engineering Teams to enforce architecture, development standards and best practice Act as an advocate and evangelist for technologies and following best practice, including coaching, mentoring and leadership Promote shared infrastructure, frameworks, services and applications to reduce cost and improve information flow Follow a suitably lean process for identifying, documenting and handing over architecture to product and development teams Pro-actively drive innovation with new ideas and opportunities made available through new technologies Develop and maintain a compelling strategic technical vision for the products you work on Evaluate technology acquisitions identifying potential value and use-cases across our organization Work on proof of concepts or technical prototypes to validate or prove out new ideas with a view to turn these into MVP products What you'll bring Ability to "think big" and challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refresh and hype Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical groups Strong project management and organization skills Demonstrated ability to build consensus among many stakeholders Comfortable with ambiguity and willing to take principled bets on new technology Ability to establish, implement, and enforce appropriate IT standards to meet business requirements Relationship-building: listen, build rapport, and credibility as a strategic partner vertically within the business unit, as well as with leadership and functional teams Energy, focus, assertiveness, and diplomacy: knowing when to push an agenda and when to let a situation develop, rest, or advance Highly developed communication skills Emotional intelligence and empathy Accept ownership