Mail Engineer - Exchange 2007

• Mail Engineer - Exchange 2007
• Up to £305 per day - Outside IR35
• ASAP start
• Contract until at least Mid-September but could extend
• 100% remote based in the UK

Working for a global software company we are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer who has extensive experience within Exchange 2007 / 2010 to assist with BAU support while the business ramp up their migration to the cloud - AWS.

Main Responsibilities

• Responsible for support the companies technical infrastructure estate
• Key knowledge of Exchange 2007 / 2010 / Exchange O365 / Cisco Ironport (desirable)
• Manage mail migration from on prem to Office 365
• Good solid understanding of Active Directory and understanding of group policy management
• Solid understanding of Powershell / cmd line
• Ensuring high availability of systems using company monitoring tools and proactive maintenance
• Upgrades and OS maintenance work as and when required
• Advise on best practice
• Project delivery
• Able to help design and implement high level documentation

Accountability:

• Serve as a technical resource by providing support to multiple projects and business units
• Ensure servers, appliances and Windows services including associated infrastructure is properly monitored
• Ensure that alerts regarding related outages are addressed in a timely manner
• Provide technical assistance and support, either formal or informal, for more junior team members and mentor new and inexperienced team members as required
• Follow a strict change control process
• Work to tight time scales / deadlines as and when required
• Maintain and implement documentation in accordance with internal policies and procedures
• To assist in release management and technical integration processes for projects
• To investigate and solve technical problems and long-term outstanding issues for internal business units
• Good understanding of Microsoft stack (Server, SQL, IIS, Clustering, AD including GPOs, WSUS)
• To undertake any other duties commensurate with the grading of the post as may be instructed by management

Experience and qualifications

• Understanding of core IT Concepts
• Problem resolution and root cause analysis
• Have a good understanding of ITIL practices
• Solarwinds experience or a monitoring solution understanding
• AWS / Azure / VMWare certifications or extensive experience beneficial
• Help desk ticket interaction
• Change process experience required
• Solid MS Exchange 2007 / 2010 skills - MCSE / MCSA ideally
• Solid O365 Exchange skills
• Solid AD / Group policy skills - MCSE / MCSA ideally
• Cisco Ironport management / implementation best practice