Essential skills and experience required **

• Microsoft Certified
• Significant and demonstrable expertise with PowerShell and scripting.
• Significant expertise and knowledge of Windows Server and Microsoft Active Directory platform.
• In-depth working knowledge of Microsoft platforms with a focus on Intune, Microsoft Exchange Online, Office 365 support technologies, and Azure Active Directory.
• Strong experience configuring anti-malware, intrusion detection, firewalls and vulnerability scanning systems and network security.
• Extensive experience and working knowledge with Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service platform and hybrid infrastructure; including planning, configuration, optimisation and deployment
• Extensive experience of patching, monitoring and infrastructure change management of business continuity.

** CVs will be scored against these criteria and candidates who do not have all the essential skills listed above will be rejected.

Additional desirable skills and experience***

• Experience with SQL Server and always on availability groups.
• Experience configuring office telecommunications
• Strong and demonstrable VMWare vSphere skills with a proven track record working with a large, complex infrastructure environment
• Microsoft Azure certification