Role: Senior Application Systems Engineer REF 67579
Contract Length: 12 months
Location: Aldermaston
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £54.56 per hour
Security Clearance: DV or SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Senior Application Systems Engineer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR APPLICATION SYSTEMS ENGINEER
- To support the Technical Service Manager(s) and Team Leader in maintaining the operational status, and maximising availability of assets to programme demanders.
- Resolution of significant issues.
- Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.
- Additional accountabilities for this job profile may be defined and appointed through the Chief Engineer Management Arrangements, with appointees listed within the Company Design Authorities and Technical Authorities, as held in the company management system.
- Provide a resilient cost effective highly available infrastructure to the business on top of which hosted services can be deployed, managed and maintained.
- To manage the day-to-day sustainment of Infrastructure Systems, ensuring that planning, end-user impact, change management and problem management are properly addressed and monitored to ensure that deadlines, budgets and service levels are met and results delivered.
- Be responsible for diagnosing and following through to resolution any problems, escalating to team members or other teams and vendors when required.
- Build relationships with other teams within IT Operations to enable better support and communications.
- To maintain technical skills to allow us to benefit from new and emerging technologies in order to make supportive decisions
- Attend technical briefing / support groups.
- Understand and develop support system road maps.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SENIOR APPLICATION SYSTEMS ENGINEER
- Awareness of additional technology areas such as VMWare, Virtualisation, Networking and Converged Infrastructure.
- Broad knowledge of IT and Information related principles, standards, and requirements when operating within legislative environments.
- Working knowledge of ITIL framework. Technical investigation and problem-solving skills.
- Highly proficient computing skills.
- Good communicator (Written and oral) with sound facilitation skills.
- Ability to operate under pressure and influence decisions.
- Liaising with Project managers
- Decision making
- Task Management
- Attending meetings
- Providing strategy
- ITIL qualified or understanding of ITIL processes
- Lead technology conferences / discussions
If you are a Senior Application Systems Engineer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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