2 contracts found in York

Infrastructure Specialist - Compute Job ID: 8490 Department: IT Employment type: Contractor Location(s): York, UK | Colchester | London, England Preferred education: Degree or equivalent Infrastructure Specialist We are seeking a superhero to join our team at Hiscox and deliver a world class service to our business  Your superpower will be Powershell, you will know your Azure, Windows, RedHat and VMWare infrastructure even more than the Avengers know how to assemble You will be experienced working with infrastructure services and will enjoy working with a team of others on dynamic projects that will include deployment with Puppet and Terraform (server based rather than colonising new planets) Previously you’ll have deployed enterprise services over live and test environments and be comfortable working with a code centric approach to infrastructure development. You’ll know your server and storage arrays your SAN from your NAS as well as your Brocade from your HP and will be comfortable working with WSUS and Ivanti or similar otherworldly technology   Our business is fast moving, quick to decide and we have rapidly evolving targets and priorities. You will be used to working in a similar environment and will have the ability to work in a self-motivated and confident manner with those that work within IT as well as business service users   You will be the primary technical contact for technical areas, coordinating with stakeholders and technical colleagues as required. You’ll be able to contribute to planning, design and delivery of IT projects and the move towards a more code centric infrastructure model. You will know your IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, enable suitability for provisioning, testing and deployment of infrastructure and will be comfortable working within the agile IT delivery model, loosely coupled around ITIL with Delivery as a Service at the forefront   This role would equivocate to a third line support role in other businesses however with the autonomous and responsible manner you will bring to the business we are open to talking about your technical skills rather than your seniority    Apply now for immediate consideration  

job description: Citrix Specialist Hiscox are hiring for a Senior Infrastructure Specialist with exceptional Citrix skills to work within their agile tribe and squad infrastructure teams on a contract basis The focus of the role is to provide essential 3rd line Citrix based delivery to the business whilst working with the project teams to design, document and deliver new infrastructure components, upgrades and releases in an agile and automated manner. You will have Citrix certification and have current and demonstrable experience working with: XenApp/XenDesktop, PVS/MCS, StoreFront, NetScaler, XenMobile, ShareFile, Desktop Player Windows 7/10/2008/2012/2016 VMware ESX and Cloud hosting Microsoft AD/GPO/MDT, McAfee AV, Ivanti DesktopNow, Symantec Altiris Microsoft App-V/Office 365/OneDrive Thin clients Powershell scripting ability Within the role you will provide 3rd line support, infrastructure delivery, BAU and project based work across the enterprise. You will support IT incidents, effectively managing technical and business based communication and ensuring that route cause analysis and effective resolution is delivered. You will enable infrastructure strategy to be realised via information and knowledge sharing with other infrastructure team members as well as architects. 3rd party management skills and some project leadership experience would be highly beneficial within this role as well as being primary technical contact for escalations in absence of the TDA Our business is Agile, we are Agile, fast moving, quick to decide and we have rapidly evolving targets and priorities. You will be used to working in a similar environment and will have the ability to work in a self-motivated and confident manner. We utilise DevOps processes and principles and follow an Infrastructure as Code principle and would expect you to be able to get up to speed within our environment quickly Apply now for further information #LI-SW1 person specification: