Systems Engineer - 6 or 12 month FTC
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Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: Jan 6, 2025
Description
About the firm
Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action and results. Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that provides advisory, business performance improvement and turnaround management services. When conventional approaches are not enough to create transformation and drive change, clients seek our deep expertise and ability to deliver practical solutions to their unique problems.
With over 10,000 people providing services across six continents, we deliver tangible results for corporates, boards, private equity firms, law firms and government agencies facing complex challenges. Our senior leaders, and their teams, leverage A&M’s restructuring heritage to help companies act decisively, catapult growth and accelerate results. We are experienced operators, world-class consultants, former regulators and industry authorities with a shared commitment to telling clients what is really needed for turning change into a strategic business asset, managing risk and unlocking value at every stage of growth.
To learn more, visit: AlvarezandMarsal.com.
The role and team
The A&M IT Engineering team seeks a highly motivated, action-orientated Systems Engineer to join our team in London on a fixed term contract. As an A&M IT Engineering team member you will provide advanced support, system deployment and maintenance, and administration of cloud, physical, and virtual computing environments across the enterprise. This position works closely with other Infrastructure, Network, Operations, Security and Application Engineers and Developers, as well as Business Partners to implement, monitor and maintain production and dev environments.
You will also have the opportunity to work closely with various team members to assist with design, maintenance, configuration and support of IT Systems in a 24/7/365 global environment with attention to availability, performance, and security.
The Role
The Systems Engineer responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Support mission critical systems and infrastructure, projects, and new initiatives (Level 3 support).
Deploy, administer, and maintain servers and applications including but not limited to AD, DNS, DHCP, file and print servers, storage, production applications, virtualization, SAN, NAS, high availability, Disaster Recovery, security administration, patch management, alert notifications, user administration, operational support.
Deploy, administer, and maintain line of business systems and applications. Test and implement software update to ensure functionality is maintained and/or improved.
Working through various mechanisms in M365 and Azure to automate and streamline processes as applicable
Comfort with translating business requirements into technical capabilities for systems design.
Advanced Tier 3 support for systems and applications including root cause analysis, focused strongly on M365 advanced solutions.
Advanced Tier 3 support to end users as appropriate, focused strongly on M365 advanced solutions.
Contribute to writing and maintaining documentation for technical and non-technical audiences; including systems and disaster recovery documentation.
Coordinate, collaborate, and communicate frequently with IT 3rd party service providers.
The Requirements
A number of solid years’ experience of IT support experience.
Azure experience with an understanding of the platform.
Strong experience working with Microsoft 365, Azure AD, and various cloud platforms.
Strong capabilities with Powershell or other scripting languages.
Strong understanding of on-premises and cloud-based identity management.
Exposure to virtualization technologies (ESXI, vCenter, Microsoft Hyper-V, SCVMM).
Knowledge of modern enterprise data centre operations.
Thorough knowledge of Microsoft server platforms and networking concepts including but not limited to Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Server 2008r2-2019, Exchange 2010-2019, SQL, Group Policy, DHCP, DNS, and related technologies.
A strong understanding of industry standard security processes and procedures (such as ITIL) as well as project management .
Excellent organizational and communications skills.
Excellent customer services skills.
Analytical thinker with excellent problem solving, investigation, diagnostic and teamwork skills.
Other Requirements
Must be able to work independently.
Must be able to communicate effectively and tactfully with all levels of personnel, both in verbal and written modes.
Must be able to pay close attention to detail and understand written and verbal instructions.
Must be able to organize and schedule work effectively.
Must be able to work well under time constraints.
Must be able to maintain confidentiality.
Diversity & Inclusion
A&M’s entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M’s core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity, and we foster inclusiveness, encouraging everyone to bring their whole self to work each day. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is Alvarez & Marsal’s practice to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, family medical history, genetic information or other protected medical condition, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by and in accordance with applicable laws. Employees and Applicants can find A&M policy statements and additional information by region here.
Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters
Please note that as per A&M policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our Inclusive Diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that A&M will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.
