Senior Systems Engineer
• I provided maintenance and support of hardware, software and data integrity relating to all user PC’s, application servers, network infrastructure and the internet/mail gateway. • Worked with the Commercial Manager on understanding the future needs from an IT perspective, for setting IT expenditure budgets and for forward planning capacity and network provisioning.• Administration of Microsoft Server, SQL Server, Terminal Server Farms, WSUS, VPN, Exchange , firewall, proxy, anti-spam and mail filtering, domain controllers, file and print servers.• Design and Deploy of complete SMB sites for our customers, AD, File servers, Exchange and networking• Managed data security, confidentiality and availability. This includes controlled user access, and multi-level protection against virus and other malicious infections.• Backup and restores of system primarily using BackupExec • Maintained and controlled Active Directory (AD) including that of the creation, deletion, and maintenance of user accounts, groups and all associated security parameters.• Continuously monitoring performance of server systems and resolving capacity issues (disk, CPU, memory etc.).• Liaise directly with suppliers for software and hardware procurement and specialist service providers.