ICT Specialist

The IT Infrastructure Security Engineer will be working within the Storage Services & Risk team, involved in designing, implementing, automating and testing IT infrastructure components and engineering applications. Focus will be on the rapidly developing service of ransomware protection and recovery. You will deliver and maintain a largely autonomous environment whichin the event of a successful ransomware attack on the bank will allow the speedy recovery of multiple affected systems into ring fenced environments where they can be analysed, cleansed of any malware and rapidly recovered into the production environments. Your area of responsibility will be to protect and recover both application data and infrastructure configuration data. Cutting edge technology, security and extensive automation will be mainstream elements of your job.

Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. Our team brings talented people together to develop IT to the next level. The team will consist of colleagues with individual specialisms separate to and overlapping with your own, including core areas of expertise:
• VMware Virtualization & Software-Defined Data Cente;
• Scripting;
• CI/CD Pipeline Automation;
• Workflow Automation;
• Storage;
• Compute;
• Backup & Recovery.

Responsibilities:
Especially with the context of the Clean Room / Ransomware recovery environment:
• Work with business and application development teams to extract requirements and propose appropriate solutions and standards;
• Implement the very highest levels of security, automation and software defined infrastructure;
• Implement / integrate with patching, NTP, AD;
• Assist in the security and integrity of data, data systems and data networks;
• Create procedures that meet operational, regulatory, and company policies;
• Create High Level and Detailed level designs;
• Participate in the SCRUM team, contribute to refining product backlog items and participate in all SCRUM events;
• Support and operate the Clean Room.

• Expert Automation skills: vRealize Orchestrator / Powershell / REST API’s;
• Experience with VMware vSphere and the vRealize suite;
• Good understanding of IT infrastructure services;
• Ability to interact with business stakeholders and technical staff at all levels;

Desirable, but not Essential:

• Good security awareness and experience with cryptography, encryption and Multi Factor Authentication;
• Automation skills: Ansible;
• Experience in designing and building CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOPS;
• Working Knowledge of Agile and the SCRUM framework;
• Working knowledge of Storage Area Networks;
• Experience with Veeam Backup & Recovery;
• Working knowledge of implementing micro-segmentation using VMware NSX-T;
• Experience in creating PowerBI reports and dashboards;
• Experience in creating vRealize Operations reports and Dashboards;
• Experience in building golden operating system images using Hashicorp Packer;
• Working knowledge of booting operating systems over iPXE.

We have several vacancies for ICT Specialists involving long-term projects.

In principle, this concerns a secondment assignment, but it is also possible to enter into permanent employment with our client. We are very flexible in that regard.
We offer extremely interesting terms of employment and a very pleasant working environment.
There is a good balance between working from home and office work.

Curious about what we can do for you? Let us know by your application. We will then schedule an introductory meeting to discuss the possibilities.