Senior System Engineer - Sheffield, United Kingdom - Davies

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    Our vision

    Davies is a community of outstanding people. We welcome different perspectives, support each other's ambitions and grow together. In a fast-changing business environment, we adapt and look ahead.

    We succeed because we are multi-talented: in the skills of our teams, specialisms, and sector expertise. Working together, we are greater than the sum of our parts.

    Why work for Davies

    Davies are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome candidates of all genders, gender identity and expression, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality, and belief (or lack thereof). Join us and avail of our ever-evolving benefits, including but not limited to:

    • Reward platform – discounts for over 800 retailers
    • 25 days holiday (rising with service)
    • EAP with virtual GP
    • Recognition programme
    • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave policies
    • Fostering friendly and fertility support employer
    • Pension - matched contribution up to 5%
    • Life Assurance (4 x basic salary)
    • 2 x paid volunteer days per year
    • Development, training, and professional qualification

    The role

    Our Project Support Engineers [PSE] support on large, and lead smaller technical projects, ensuring solutions are pragmatic and offer improved services to our customers (internal stakeholders).

    The Engineering team is divided into communities, each with their own specific area of expertise, executing different parts of the project plan; EUC, Business Applications, Network, Infrastructure Resilience and Infrastructure.

    This role sits within the NAT Community, supporting the migration to robust solutions for Network and Telephony projects.

    This role will require active participation in and outside of your aligned community and continuous focus on process improvement and professional development.

    Role responsibilities

    • Design and provision of IT solutions including full lifecycle mergers and acquisition (M&A) projects. Evaluate changes and provide solutions for Stakeholder review.
    • Adhere to and ensures the enforcement of all business policies.
    • Create and maintain documentation, including systems configuration, processes, knowledge articles, test and project plans.
    • Escalate issues to the Technical Team Lead/Project Manager
    • Work with the wider IT Teams to drive integration from an application perspective.

    Skills and experience required - General

    • Demonstrate extensive technical project delivery experience, ideally within an M&A or Transformation environment
    • Excellent working knowledge of core networking services - e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, RDP, SNMP, LDAP, Kerberos
    • Networking skills – e.g. switching, routing, VLANs, PoE, WLAN, MPLS
    • Proficiency in Cisco Meraki and expertise in Firewalls is a must.
    • NAS / SAN storage infrastructures
    • Knowledge of Mobile Device Management and telephony skills
    • Experience of Automated Monitoring and Alerting
    • Strong communication skills
    • Team player with ability to work independently as required
    • Experience of cloud technologies including Azure, AWS with VMware VMC
    • Strong analytical and problem-solving ability in complex technical landscapes

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