System Automation Engineer

Computer Futures is a leading IT recruitment consultancy, specializing in placing IT experts in permanent and contract roles across Asia, Europe and the US.

With a proven track record in IT recruitment, we enjoy success within all sectors and business types, placing a candidate every 38 minutes. From single job vacancies to large-scale projects, our proficiency in providing exceptional professionals across the board has carved our reputation as a secure and significant supplier partner.

A robust and financially strong business we have grown organically from our first office in London in 1986, to 18 offices in Europe; including Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Paris as well as one office in San Francisco and Tokyo.

Gaining market share, year-on-year, we have the largest client base of any IT recruitment business across Europe. We work with a range of clients, from SMEs to large multi-nationals and high-profile names.

Passionate about recruitment, our 350+ specialist IT recruitment consultants’ priority is to secure the right person for the right role, within a specified time frame and budget. Through Computer Futures’ methodology, our consultants – who focus on a specific IT technical market and geographical area - create a bespoke service to meet our individual clients’ recruitment needs.

• Split time approximately 60:40 between project based work and support based work; split may change depending on workload
• Strong Windows Server administration experience in an enterprise environment
• Devise and automate procedures for provisioning new system instances
• Implement and lead continuous integration, automated testing, configuration management, release management, deployment, cloud hosting and systems monitoring
• Support incoming server incident and request tickets in a distributed high volume environment
• Rack, configure, decommission, and deploy OS for physical servers in co-located and local datacenters
• Administer and troubleshoot OS-level issues in a VM environment, as well as hardware problems on physical servers (Dell, Cisco)
• Manage Print Server queues, drivers, and DR
• Manage and respond to daily alerts from monitoring systems (SCOM, xMatters)
• Patch deployments to 1,500+ Windows Servers during predetermined outage windows; software, driver, and firmware deployment and configuration

• 5+ years of relevant, hands-on experience supporting Windows Server 2012/2008 (R2) in an Enterprise Environment
• Expertise with scripting languages such as Powershell, VB Scripting, Python is desirable.
• Experience with server management tools such as MS System Center (preferred), Altiris, or similar
• Experience managing an automated patching of Windows Servers with SCCM (preferred), Lumension, or a similar tool
• Thorough understanding of working principles, and experience supporting Active Directory, Group Policy, Microsoft DNS, IIS, Virtualization (Hyper‑V or VMware), Symantec Endpoint Protection (or similar enterprise AV)
• Experience with monitoring systems such as SCOM, Whats Up Gold , Net Scout, HP NMS, Syslog, or others
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or equivalent work experience
• Experience in Financial sector preferred

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.