Senior IT Infrastructure Officer

Senior IT Infrastructure Officer

Our Client a bank, in Central London are looking for an experienced IT Infrastructure professional who is ideally looking for their next challenge in a dynamic and regulated financial services environment.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior IT Infrastructure Officer to lead the management, security, and continuous improvement of our enterprise IT infrastructure.

The Senior IT Infrastructure Officer will be playing a key role in ensuring the availability, resilience, and performance of critical systems while supporting technologies across servers, networks, cloud services, cybersecurity, and business-critical financial applications.

The candidate must have strong technical expertise in Windows/Linux, VMware, Microsoft 365, networking, cybersecurity, and infrastructure management who also enjoys solving complex challenges and driving operational excellence.

Must have 7 years' experience in enterprise infrastructure, ideally within banking or financial services, and be passionate about delivering secure, reliable IT services.

The role will be Monday to Friday, 9:30am to 5:30pm and reporting into the Head of IT & Data. Due to the nature of the role, the individual is expected to work in our offices, 5 days per week, during their probationary period.

• Administer, maintain, and optimize Windows and Linux server environments.
• Manage VMware virtualized infrastructure (vSphere 8 and above).
• Oversee enterprise backup and disaster recovery solutions using Veeam Backup & Replication.
• Manage Veeam ONE monitoring and Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (VRO) environments.
• Administer endpoint security and encryption solutions, including Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) and Symantec Endpoint Encryption (SEE).
• Support endpoint DLP, SIEM, and security monitoring tools (eg, Splunk, Tenable).
• Manage patching processes using Manage Engine Patch Manager Plus.
• Support Microsoft 365 services and related cloud technologies.
• In depth understanding of Cyber security.
• Monitor system performance, capacity, availability, and infrastructure health.
• Ensure compliance with IT governance, security policies, and operational standards.

• Provide advanced desktop, laptop, printer, Mobile device (iOS) and branch office IT support.
• Deliver AV support for meeting rooms, conferencing, presentations, and collaboration systems.
• Manage OS deployment, imaging, image creation, maintenance, and software packaging.
• Administer Active Directory (AD), Group Policy Objects (GPOs) and user provisioning and NTFS permissions.
• Support Microsoft 365 applications including Outlook, Teams, One Drive, and SharePoint.
• Resolve technical incidents and service requests in line with agreed SLAs.

• Support and administer business-critical applications, including Bloomberg FXT and Refinitiv Eikon, Murex Treasury System, SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA), 1
  
  AML, SIBS, GFMS, COP.
• Support enterprise file synchronization and replication solutions (eg, Syncovery, other SFTP).

• Configure and support Cisco switches and routers.
• Administer Forti Gate firewall environments.
• Strong network fundamentals: DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, Routing and connectivity troubleshooting.
• Monitor network performance, availability, and security posture.

• Support vulnerability management using tools such as Tenable.
• Manage security monitoring and log analysis tools (eg, Splunk).
• Perform SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management using OpenSSL.
• Create and manage CSRs, certificate chains, and private keys.
• Ensure adherence to cybersecurity policies, standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Support physical access control systems (eg, Paxton).

• Windows 11
• Windows Server 2019/2022 (or equivalent enterprise environments)
• Red Hat Linux

• VMware vSphere / vCenter (v8.0.3 and above)
• Veeam Backup & Replication
• Veeam ONE, VRO
• Microsoft Office 365
• Manage Engine Patch Manager Plus
• SaaS solutions
• SQL Server

• Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)
• Symantec Endpoint Encryption (SEE)
• Sentinel One – EDR/XDR
• Endpoint DLP solutions
• Firewall administration
• Vulnerability management tools (eg, Tenable)
• SIEM tools (e.g., Splunk)

• Dell Power Edge Servers
• Dell Power Vault SAN Storage

Bachelor or Master's degree or professional qualification in relevant discipline (IT/Information Systems/Computer Science/Technology/Programming/Information Science/System Engineering/Computing).

The role is based in Central London and initially will be 5 days per week in the office.

This is a 12 month FTC position.

The salary for the role will be around £70K - £75K.