Technical Consultant - IT Support


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Actica Consulting Ltd

Listed on

1st June 2017

Location

GU2 7RF

Salary/Rate

£30000 - £40000

Salary Notes

+ bi-annual bonus

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Actica Consulting is a business and technical consultancy specialising in supporting public sector organisations, helping them sustain and improve the quality of public services. Some of our customers include MOD, NHS, Fire Services, Police Forces, and the MoJ.

Our business and technical expertise covers the full spectrum of information and communications technologies and a wide range of business applications and initiatives. Our capability includes: shared services, business applications, command and control, e-business, enterprise systems, networks and telecommunications, emerging technologies and information security.

Role Profile

This is an exciting opportunity to work both within the company’s IT team as well as providing technical advice and development work for enterprise customers.

The role will provide a fantastic springboard into a consulting career with client engagement and project work the norm from the start. You will provide consultancy to public sector and defence organisations using your technical expertise to help them get maximum benefit from their ICT investments and business change requirements. The range in clients and project work ensures that you will gain exposure to a variety of technical challenges in a short space of time.

You will be responsible for maintaining and upgrading a range of technologies utilised by the company itself. This will include maintaining services and responding to support requests as well as the development of new systems and services.

Due to the nature of customer side working, travel within the UK should be expected.

Career Development

-You will have the opportunity to explore new technologies in a development environment and integrate them into existing systems.

-You will also have the opportunity to build a career in consulting, specialising in the application of a broad range of methodologies and technical specialisations to a wide range of business problems.

-We provide substantial training, including online, classroom and in-house course provision, leading to nationally recognised qualifications.

-We provide structured career development pathways to help you gain responsibility and influence.

Responsibilities

Working as part of a larger Actica team, you will undertake a number of consultancy assignments that could include:

-Carrying out development and Proof of Concept work;

-Providing technical assurance that proposed solutions are fit for purpose.

As part of the Actica IT team you will be expected to:

-Maintain company information systems.

-Undertaking IT support.

-Liaise with IT suppliers when on site undertaking work.

-Attend relevant IT meetings and provide updates.

-Carry out monitoring of systems to ensure system health and security.

-Maintain Firewall and gateway security policies.

-Respond to security alerts and liaise with System Security Officer on any incidents

-Carry out development work of new Information Services: build, test and roll-out to live

Qualifications and Experience

You will have experience of system administration within a Microsoft environment, be proactive, selfmotivated, and be able to keep up with the rapid pace of ICT. You will be expected to identify areas for expansion of the current IT services to provide additional benefits to the company.

Required skills:

-Managing Virtualised Infrastructure

-Securing Information Systems

-Experience of following IT Security Policy

-Principles of Networking (DNS/DHCP/Layer 3 Firewalls/Routing)

-Ability to learn and test new technologies and integrate with existing systems

Desired skills:

-Windows Server 2012

-Windows Active Directory

-Microsoft Exchange 2013

-Linux management (Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04)

-Scripting of tasks through Windows Powershell

-Cisco firewall management (ADSM or CLI)

-VPN configuration and management

-Microsoft Group Policy

-Endpoint Management Technologies

-Security Incident handling

Preference is given to candidates with a good degree (2.1 or above) from a reputable university and in a relevant technical subject, such as Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or Engineering.

Because of the nature of the Actica’s business, a wide and varied background is preferable and the demonstrable capability to adapt quickly to new developments is always required.

You must be eligible and willing to gain UK Security Clearance to apply for this position.

We offer:

-Competitive salaries

-A discretionary bench mark bonus; split into two payments per year

-25 days annual Leave

-Twice yearly performance appraisal with pay review at each

-Investment in training relevant to an individual’s development and Actica’s business needs

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