Designing and provisioning IT infrastructure solutions across the many sites within the organisation.Following our "cloud first" strategy where appropriate.

The role became more focused on data centre operations and project work providing support across the various divisions and acquisitions made by Sulzer in the EMEA region. All other duties as relevant to the post and includes responsibilities attached to the previous IT positions within Sulzer.

Working towards and assisting with the migration to a more centralised IT structure within Sulzer as a whole. Responsibility still remained for the local services hosted in the Pumps UK division, which were greatly rationalised and consolidated reducing the server count by over 50% and hardware footprint by around 80%.

Responsible for the day-to-day operations for a 1000 plus user and 70 plus server Windows 2008 Active Directory network spread across Europe and the Middle East.Implementing/Configuration and administration the following technologies and business applications-Server 2003/2008 R2/2012, Active Directory, Exchange 2003/2010, Managing group policy, DPM, SCOM, SCVMM, WSUS, MDT, ISA Server, SQL Server, HP EVA Storage, Symantec Backup Exec, TCP/IP, DHCP,DNS, VPN – Routing and Remote Access, ITIL, Power and UPS management.

First line support of around one thousand users across Europe and the Middle East.ITIL structured environment introduced during this period at Sulzer

General regression testing of new software.

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