Position: Project Engineer
Reporting to: Technical Director
Our client has been established for over 17 years and is one of the leading IT Services and solutions providers within the UK. They have successfully guided, advised, and supported the growth of businesses in both the private and public sectors. Our client is currently looking for a Project Engineer to add to their experienced technical team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a technical resource in support of project installations which utilise a variety of technologies.
- When directed, technically approve planned installations, upgrades, and change requests. Ensure that appropriate technical implementation plans, test plans, and contingency plans are in place and ensure that existing systems are not compromised by any proposed changes.
- Ensure that acceptance testing and witness testing of new installations and changes to existing installations are carried out before handover to BAU for ongoing management.
- Ensure that Project Managers and the business are regularly updated on project progress.
- Create design standards, equipment lists, standardised configurations, test plans, etc., for inclusion in proposals and incorporation into project plans as requested.
- Provide Technical pre-sales support to the sales team including the preparation of technical proposals and delivery of technical presentations to customers and potential customers when directed.
- Review and approve sales proposals from a technical perspective and ensure that any proposed technical solution is in line with the Company standards and that the solution proposed is appropriate, given financial constraints imposed and that managed technical risk maps are in place.
- Ensure that all software, hardware, and communication systems recommended for inclusion in system designs are robust, value for money, and all risks of failure together with the consequences of failure have been fully identified.
- Identify and propose new technologies to the Technical Director for consideration.
- Understand the road map of all products and solutions that the business offers to the client base.
- Gain and maintain relevant supplier accreditations, as agreed with the Technical Director, to support this responsibility.
- Ensure that the Company’s Change Control process is adhered to.
- Ensure that all billable time is correctly logged in the ConnectWise system.
- Perform audits of existing and potential client environments to ascertain suitable solutions to propose as directed.
Technical Knowledge/Skills:
Required:
- Virtualisation platforms – Strong understanding of and experience with VMware – VCP preferred.
- Strong knowledge and experience migrating workloads to public cloud platforms, Office365 & Azure.
- Full Microsoft stack knowledge, Server 2008-2016, Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, SQL, server migrations and upgrades.
- Strong understanding of networking, including fundamentals, routing, VPNs and experience migrating and installing networking hardware from various vendors.
- Good understanding of Linux.
- Experience of scripting via Powershell.
- Strong experience and knowledge of various backup technologies, disaster recovery, bare metal recoveries, etc.
- Strong understanding and experience of Exchange including initial configuration, DAG, migration, monitoring.
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
Desirable:
- Knowledge of other non-Microsoft cloud platforms AWS, Google, etc.
- Knowledge and experience of session-based hosting / VDI – VMware, Citrix, Terminal services, etc.
- Strong storage skills, Fibre channel, ISCSI, SAN, and NAS.
- Network certification including CCNA.
Person Specification:
- Passionate about delivering good customer service in terms of projects.
- Good verbal communication skills are essential.
- Good written English skills are essential.
- Be able to work to tight deadlines and under pressure.
- Be able to put together technical project plans.
- Should be seen as a technical escalation point for various technologies.
- Should be able to engage with customers at all levels of the business from technical to senior.
- Ability to manage time effectively.
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