Microsoft Service Engineer

Job description

·  Job Description:

Calling all Microsoft Workplace Services Engineers who want to expand their knowledge!

Want to help build something great?

Would you describe yourself as a creative and ambitious engineer who is always ready to take on the next cutting-edge technology?

What is in it for you:

·  Competitive salary
·  A chance to build something from the ground up
·  Opportunity and support to grow your skills
·  A working environment that has a best of class culture
·  A leadership team that puts you at the heart of everything we do

DXC are expanding theirDigital Transformation capabilityto meet the rapid increase in demand for agile driven solutions from our extensive customer base. DXC are building a Digital capability at Chorley. Using their DTC global model, who are market leaders in offering creative, rapid and cost efficient solutioning to a multitude of business and process needs; this ‘thinktank’ approach is coming to the North West. Focussing on the first of type, proof of concept innovation projects it will be a hub for pushing the boundaries, where innovation is encouraged and applauded.

We are looking for driven and innovative individuals who would like to be part of building our vision whilst helping clients transform their business.

Our technical role offers you the chance to use your existing skills and grow your knowledge in a multitude of environments and technologies in platforms, micro-services, cloud migrations, CI/CD pipelines, containers, automation, robotics and some of the best Dev Ops Tooling whilst working alongside some of the most talented people inDXC.   

Responsibilities

The primary responsibility for this role is to design and implement Workplace, Mobility, Cloud or Platform services with a Microsoft foundational layer.  You will apply your skills to:

·  Produce innovative and robust designs for our services offerings
·  Utilise a broad spectrum of technology expertise to produce part or all of the technical solution for our clients.
·  Apply depth and breadth of technical knowledge and be individually responsible for the design and delivery of technical components using a ‘micro-services’ approach.
·  Work collaboratively with our Customer teams directly to ensure timely delivery with our end users in mind at all times
·  Travel to client sites may be required.
·  Located at one of two sites, Chorley & Erskine
·  Contribute to knowledge tools and communities and ensure micro-services can be re-used as a template for other engagements.

Core Skills and Experience:

·  Wintel experience in designing and engineering solutions.
·  Understanding of virtual and physical server infrastructure
·  Strong Windows administration, hardening and troubleshooting experience
·  Multiple Windows Server and Windows 7/10 operating systems
·  Excellent written and oral communication and technical documentation skills
·  Some experience of working within Agile Project Management methods

Desirable Skills and Experience:

·  System architecture exposure on large scale deployments
·  Automation/Scripting knowledge and experience – PowerShell/VBscript/Ansible/Jenkins etc
·  System architecture of large scale deployments
·  Active Directory and Group Policy
·  Terminal Services, Citrix XenApp, VDI
·  Experience with technologies
·  DNS and DHCP
·  MS SQL
·  SCCM, WSUS
·  WDAC
·  Windows 7, 10 (1709, 1803, 1809,1903 etc)
·  InTune
·  Workspace One
·  Cloud Technologies
·  Experience working in a customer driven environment

Personal Competencies:

·  Self-Motivated
·  Customer focus and professional approach
·  Ability to work on own Initiative without supervision
·  Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
·  Not be afraid to challenge requests and clarify business requirements
·  Risk Management Skills
·  Flexible approach to work including ability to deliver results at short notice
·  Comfortable with working directly with customer staff on customer premises
·  Ability to travel with appropriate notice to work on customer sites across the UK