Launch Recruitment is exclusively supporting a global leading Financial Services organisation on the lookout for a Senior Private Cloud Systems Engineer to join on an initial 9-month contract basis.

This role will be responsible for the end-to-end ownership and delivery of both private and public cloud infrastructure systems and services. You'll contribute to the design, implementation, and management of complex cloud-based systems in an enterprise setting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee the day-to-day technical operations of cloud infrastructure systems and services.
• Provide 3rd Level Technical Support change requests for virtual desktop and server environments both on premise and in the public cloud.
• Configure, deploy, and support Windows servers, AD, Microsoft 365, VMware platform, and HCI infrastructure, for on-premise and public cloud environment
• Remediate Windows OS security vulnerabilities by proactive patch management in accordance with agreed service levels.
• Build and maintain regional cloud infrastructure services
• Provide support and expertise to troubleshoot issues on supported platforms or hosted workloads
• Manage and contribute to documentation of all system, application, and security changes, upgrades and new implementations.

Qualifications and Experience required -

• 5+ years of senior role experience for managing cloud technologies and infrastructure systems in a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Expert level knowledge in various areas of MS Windows servers & AD platforms
• Proficient knowledge of Windows, AD environments, VMware, Azure and AWS cloud (certifications preferred)
• Strong experience supporting Citrix & Microsoft W365 Virtual Desktop infrastructure
• Sound knowledge of virtualisation technologies e.g. Vmware, Hyper-V, VSAN & Kubernetes
• Hardware platforms e.g. Powerflex, VxRail, HCI, DELL & HPE Blade Servers
• Configuration and scripting tools e.g. Powershell, MS Batch, Bash, Terraform, Cloudformation
• Experience managing a diverse range of Cloud Infrastructure in enterprise level environments
• Excellent communication skills to provide the highest level of service to internal teams, external partners and when presenting/documenting findings

This is an opportunity to join an organisation that foster a collaborate and hard working professional environment. If you're a Cloud Systems Engineer on the lookout to learn from a mature team of Cloud professionals, please apply today for immediate consideration.