Description
Computer People have an exciting opportunity for a Technical Specialist to work a 6 month contract based in Halifax for a large Financial Services/Retail Banking organisation.
The successful candidate will have strong experience in MS Windows and also the ability to use DOS commands and Scripting.
Duties:
- Evaluate and recommend the effectiveness of solutions to meet requirements
- Install, develop and maintain specific items of software according to business plans and to agreed standards
- Develop monitoring processes for the technical infrastructure to support business objectives (eg. Performance, capacity to change and problem management).
- Undertake the planning, implementation and documentation of technical projects with minimum supervision
- Provide advice and guidance when working with less experienced colleagues on any area related to own technical expertise.
- Provide ongoing technical support for the production and/or development environments and deal effectively with technical problems when they occur (including cover out of hours where appropriate).
- Provide technical support and advice to both technical and business users
- Work with colleagues and users on various areas of the life cycle of technical projects, producing documentation to required standards.
- Undertake or participate in technical evaluations and make recommendations on specific items of systems software and/or hardware as required.
- Previous experience as a fully competent Infrastructure Developer in the Microsoft technology set along with some knowledge of managing Windows environments from the command line
- High level of problem solving skills and ability to assimilate complex technical information together with good planning skills.
Essential Skills:
- Windows Server Administration (NT4 -> Windows 2008 R2)
- Scripting capability (Batch/CMD, Vbscript, Powershell is very much a nice to have)
- Troubleshooting and support for IIS and web applications hosted by it written in .NET and ASP.
- Good understanding of IT security principles
- Knowledge of Active Directory
- Knowledge of networking principals, troubleshooting TCP/IP(load balancers, Firewalls, NLB)
- To have good oral and written communication skills
Useful Skills:
- Basic SQL Server DBA skills
- Microsoft ADAM management skills
- SM7 change control
- Veritas Clustering
Adecco is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.