Gibbs Hybrid require a skilled Windows Engineer to work for our client, a world leading financial services organisation. The end-client is a top UK financial services institution, so you must have recent financial services/banking experience with enterprise level clients to be considered.

Day rate: Up to £500 per day (inside)
Location: 2 days per week is required, ideally in Northampton, or Cheshire (other locations may be a possibility)

Overall purpose of role
As a Windows Engineer, we expect to possess a healthy mixture of both technical and leadership skills. Successful candidate would have an expert knowledge of WinTel - Windows environments, facilitating technologies and be capable to drive change majorly targeting Windows Servers and its ancillary tools. Understanding of development life cycles process and using PowerShell as a language is important to deliver key engineering deliverables. Responsibilities will include automation, optimization, research of new technologies and develop cyber resilient framework. You may be asked to dive in to a major project delivering the solution as per design. The primary responsibility will be to understand the life cycle existing product sets, help to shape backup and restore mechanism of Windows server estate and implement it. Often, you'll have to write code.

Key Accountabilities
* Development and drive of improvements in Server Build and corporate toolsets, focusing on process optimization and establishment of best practices
* Provide expertise and technical support to application or infrastructure teams and colleagues - Asked to dive in to a project
* Participate in driving adoption and understand the use of Chef across organization - you will be required to code in PowerShell/Chef DSL
* Build relationships with internal clients, discuss and understand their infrastructure needs both on a practical and commercial level. Provide input/influence to design activity.

Person Specification
An infrastructure engineer who has worked on the Windows Server platform specialising in platform design and implementations in a large, global environment is required. It is preferable if this experience has been gained whilst working in financial services.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:
* "Internals level" knowledge of all versions of Windows Server and AD
* Exposure to any CI/CD tools, preferably Chef and its ancillary products
* Understanding and the knowledge of Infrastructure-as-a-Code concepts and ite srelated tools
* Development Tehniques and experience from tool/application development using PowerShell, C#,m Ruby, Databases
* Strong in using DevOps CI/CD Pipelines specifically Atlassian tools that includes Jenkins, Bit-Bucket and JIRA systems
* Experience of Server Build and Deployment, Security Configuration
* Experience with Desired State Configuration tools

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
* Cloud Infrastructure
* Agile & Lean methodologies, DevOps
* Experience in Rubrik & SAN Technologies are desirable