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IT Regional - Data Center Job Description
We're Norton Rose Fulbright - a global law firm with over 50 offices and 7,000 employees worldwide.
We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service.
As well as the relevant skills and experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential. We value difference and actively promote a culture of respect for each individual, encouraging and creating inclusion.
Our new hybrid working model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people’s health and overall wellbeing.
Our Newcastle Office is currently recruiting for a Infrastructure DevOps & Cloud Engineer (12-month FTC). As well as the relevant skills and experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view and believe diversity drives innovation, so we're building a culture where difference is valued.
The Team
The Infrastructure DevOps & Cloud Solutions Team is a core part of Norton Rose Fulbright’s IT Service Delivery organisation provisioning services within EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Asia). We deliver 24x7 services through our Operations Centre, with direct management of EMEA’s 6 Data Centres and Cloud platforms, as well as architecting and implementing new solutions. The services we deliver utilises capabilities from 3rd parties through managed service contracts, as well as the internal core team of cloud and infrastructure experts. The core team are based in two locations, the Newcastle Office, and our London Head Office.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure DevOps & Cloud Engineer to join our team. As an Infrastructure DevOps & Cloud Engineer you must have a deep and broad knowledge of Microsoft computer platforms and Cloud solutions. Be able to communicate well in both verbal and written form. Norton Rose Fulbright has a Cloud first strategy, so expertise in cloud solutions is essential (Azure experience would be an advantage). In addition, a solid technical background in Windows Server Administration is required as a core responsibility, as this role must provide tier 3 support to the existing on-premises windows infrastructure.
Supporting the creation and establishment of new development tools and infrastructure, leveraging expertise in continuous integration, delivery, and deployment (CI/CD), Cloud technologies, Container Orchestration, and Security. Constructing and validating comprehensive CI/CD pipelines to safeguard systems from security threats.
Ours is a 24 hour a day operation and candidates will need to be flexible and able to work out of hours as required. As well as working across our UK-based locations, international travel may be required for project delivery.
The Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer will be working in a matrix team structure reporting to the EMEA Infrastructure and Cloud Solutions Senior Manager. You will be supporting the IT department evolve our best practices for deploying our solutions both into Microsoft Azure and our on-premises Data Centres.
Skills and Experience Required
Microsoft Azure
- Networking (Virtual Networks, Virtual WAN’s, Express Routes, Private Links, Checkpoints)
- Compute (Virtual Machines, Availability Sets, ASR)
- Security (CIS Benchmark, Key Vaults, AAD, MFA, MS Defender for Cloud)
On Premise
- VMWare 6.7, VMWare Site Recovery Manager (SRM), Windows Server 2012+, Active Directory, Group Policy, HPE Server Infrastructure.
- Experience in troubleshooting technical problems involving software and operating systems.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Terraform
- Scripting (PowerShell, bash)
AIOps and Monitoring
- ScienceLogic
- PRTG
- Azure Monitoring
Process & Change Control
- ITIL framework, ITSM with ServiceNow
- Be able to create technical documentation for the technical audience and fully conversant with the change control precepts and practices.
Repository
- GitHub
- Azure DevOps
Our clients come first and whilst we have a high performance culture and work hard as a team, in return we offer range of competitive benefits including:
- 25 days hols + Bank hols - Buy up to 5 days
- GP Service
- Bupa Healthcare
- Pension
- Flexible working
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential.
Our new enabled work model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people’s health and overall wellbeing. Find more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
here
. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams. We strive to create an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any tailored adjustments or accommodations, please let us know
here
. 
