Ict Infrastructure Officer- It - Stafford, United Kingdom - Triumph Consultants Ltd

Triumph Consultants Ltd

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Stafford, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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What's involved with this role:

**Temporary ICT Infrastructure Officer

IT**
Reference no: Staffordshire

Pay Rate:
£18 per hour PAYE

37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours

This opening assignment is for 6 months

City:
Stafford

The ability to travel effectively around Staffordshire as required.

The post-holder will be responsible for the operation of ICT services such as Networks and Security, Data Centre and Cloud Infrastructures and End User computing environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Proactively ensure the achievement of optimal availability of ICT services, following IT Infrastructure Libraries (ITIL) best practise guidance to areas including but not limited to Problem, Incident, Change, Configuration and Release management.
Responsible for ensuring that proactive tasks, checks and update activities are carried out on Council ICT services in a timely manner and in accordance with agreed procedures and standards.
Proactively manage ICT services to ensure availability and performance are optimal and assisting in the development of automated event monitoring and recovery routines.
Build, secure and test new Infrastructure, network and end user computing environments to minimise the risk of a security breach and to ensure services perform optimally taking advantage of new technological developments.
Implement technical changes to the SICT infrastructure and services either through project driven activities or as a part of routine system maintenance
Keep abreast of improvements in relevant ICT areas, explore best practices and technological improvements through networking, conferences etc. to help SICT continually improve service delivery and deliver cost benefits on investments.
Contribute, considering relevant legislation, data protection, security and other standards, to the continuous improvement of council ICT services, including the planning, deployment and testing of availability, business continuity & disaster recovery provision.
Ensure that all documentation including inventories, schematics, schedules, configurations and DR documentation are available and accurate to aid support and ease recovery in a maintenance or disaster scenario.

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

Other "Essential Requirements" - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

Qualifications:

ITIL Qualified foundationpractitioner
Relevant technical qualifications (e.g. Microsoft Certified solutions Expert, CISCO Certified Network Associate, Certified Information Systems Security Professional)

Experience:

Significant experience of working in a technical support environment relevant to the role (End user computing, Application Support, Network Support, Infrastructure Support, Security Support, Database Support)
Broad experience of dealing with customers, suppliers and other 3rd parties
Demonstrable knowledge of industry bodies and standards applicable to the role

Knowledge:

An indepth technical knowledge of ICT support processes based on ITIL standards
Substantial understanding of technical infrastructures, architecture, networks and security

Skills & Abilities:

Ability to use infrastructure / security/ network management tools to determine load and performance statistics
Able to configure tools to automate the provisioning, testing and deployment of new and changed infrastructure.
Problem solving and analytical skills to investigate and resolve

- operational ICT problems.

Ability to prioritise and work to tight deadlines sometimes, out of normal office hours at unsociable times.
Effective communicator written and verbal so able to communicate with users and to write technical processes and produce technical landscape diagrams

Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.

Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).

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Job Ref:
Staffordshire

Anticipated Length of Assignment:

Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.