Cloud Operations Engineer

About UK Connect

We are the UK’s leading provider of communication & IT solutions to the construction industry. Providing rapid day one connectivity, I.T solutions and wireless networks across the UK and Europe.  

 We pride ourselves on technology, innovation and delivering solutions based on customer need. We are small but well-established with an energetic and hardworking team and an environment that puts its people first. 

 UK Connect is Elite partners with Ruckus, Cradlepoint and Siklu. We also partner with Sonic Wall for our customer firewall and network security needs. 

About the team

We are small but well-established with an energetic and hardworking team of 40 with a team of 13 in our technical operations department. We operate in an environment that puts its people first. In all roles at U.K. Connect, we champion personal development, including funding degree courses to role-specific courses.

Overview

Job Type: Full-time

Reporting directly to the Head of Technical operations you will work within our Technical Operations department; you will be fully supported by our in house technical team and outsource Microsoft Specialists. You will be responsible for the internal I.T. Infrastructure, Application Management and I.T. Security.

Based on business outcomes, you will, scope, design, implement, manage and support our internal I.T. infrastructure and software needs. 

Our I.T. & Software estate

U.K. Connect is a modern business that takes advantage of the latest cloud and I.T. systems. The core business systems that you will manage includes.

• Office 365
• SharePoint
• S. Dynamics Field Services / CRM
• Microsoft Azure
• Microsoft Teams
• PowerShell
• Dell Laptops
• MS Intune
• JIRA

Key Responsibilities

• According to industry best security standards, ensure that our Cloud SaaS estate is built, deployed, delivered and operated securely.
•  Incident Management. Acting as the first point of contact for all application and software security issues, vulnerabilities and events.
• Drive security vulnerability remediation efforts across the organization.
• Maintain compliance to security policies, standards, procedures, risk assessments.
• Review existing policies and procedures and work with management to keep them updated.
• Microsoft Azure configuration, management and subscriptions.
• Power Platform (PowerApps, Dynamics 365, PowerBI & Power Automate) support, escalation point to 3rd part support vendors.
•  Storage account configuration, management & security.
•  Identity management (single sign-on, multi-factor authentication & conditional access)
•  Endpoint Manager, workstation access, security & compliance. MAM/MDM
•  Microsoft 365 domain/exchange escalations.
• Microsoft Teams configuration & security.
• SharePoint online design, configuration & security.
• Amazon Web Services administration.
•  SaaS application onboarding & 3rd party integrations.
• Workstation configuration & compliance in Microsoft Intune for automatic deployment
• Mobile Phone Support.
• License Management.
• Azure cost management & billing for resources.
• You will work closely with the Service Desk, Engineering & Pre-sales teams in the Technical Operations Department as the subject matter expert in your field.
• Keep appraised and evaluate new technologies.
• Assist in the training and development of UKC staff.

Skills Required

The below skills required are an extensive list; however, this is not required in all cases if you feel you have the ability and experience, then we will still consider your application. We will provide full training for vendor-specific solutions.

• A minimum of 5 years’ extensive experience in the Azure Active Directory domain environment’s design and delivery.
• Design and delivery of Office365, SharePoint, MS Teams.
• M.S. Intune for laptops and mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM).
• Dynamics 365 CRM support.
• Microsoft Qualified, MCSE, Azure AZ900, AZ104.
• Microsoft PL-200 qualified.
• PowerShell, Python, Ruby.
• CISSP, CISMP, DPO, ISO 27001/27001, GDPR, Cyber Essentials or equivalent security certification level are highly desirable.
• Network fundamentals TIA A+ LAN/WAN.
• ITIL, Agile, Change Management, JIRA.
• Team player and able to effectively interact with various individuals (U.K. Connect staff and clients) with different competencies and backgrounds.

Benefits to you 

We offer a competitive salary, plus a great flexible benefits package.

The important bits:

• Remote/flexible working
• 25 days a year holiday
• Company pension
• Health & Dental Care (option to ‘buy’ using points within Company benefit scheme)
• Mobile, laptop and access to company vehicle
• Free parking on site
• Members of Perkbox employee benefit scheme
• Staff away days

The fun stuff:

• Access to our large flexible benefits scheme
• 5 paid days a year to work for a charity of your choice
• ‘Duvet Days’ (option to ‘buy’ using points within our company benefit scheme)

How to apply

Send your CV along with salary expectations to Jeanette Ward, HR Manager at [email protected]

Please also call our careers phone number (this line is not manned) to leave us a message about you and your application: 0333 1210 477

Thank you!

UK Connect

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