Job Description

Your role

- Enterprise Cloud / Server Infrastructure technologies underpin the firms desire to remain agile, deliver at pace and maintain a cost-effective underlying technology infrastructure. Our infrastructure delivers best-in-class foundations and enables our stakeholders to deliver enterprise solutions, services to the firm and our clients.

- Aligning to agreed service level agreements, service and security policies and seeking to constantly improve our service offering and exceed our internal stakeholders, the firms and clients\xe2\x80\x99 expectations is key to our success.

The Cloud Infrastructure team is an established global team, who focus on operational day to day support, maintenance, and project delivery for a growing technology scope and remit, including \xe2\x80\x93

• Enterprise Infrastructure Services \xe2\x80\x93 Server OS, DNS, Storage, SCOM, SCCM, Certificate mgmt.
• Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Platform.
• Identity services, Active Directory, Azure Active Directory.

- Seeking an Infrastructure specialist who can demonstrate experience and knowledge across team remit in providing Enterprise Infrastructure operational support and maintenance across a broad spectrum of technologies and solutions, ensuring that they are scalable, reliable and secure.

- Individual will join a skilled, service focused team responsible for the administration, management and delivery of enterprise cloud and server infrastructure services.

- Demonstrate in-depth technical proficiency, analytical working practices and a desire to develop themselves and technologies across a broad technology scope.

- Desire to work closely with all teams in the Technology function and outside the function, such as Risk, Innovation team to strengthen our capability to support services in the firm so that collectively we can provide the best service to our clients.

- Expected to build positive and effective working relationships with our key implementation and delivery third-party partners.

- Due to the global reach of the team, the role will occasionally be required to work outside the core office hours to support colleagues across the globe.

Your experience

- Candidate will demonstrate in-depth technical experience, proficiency, certification, and a desire to actively lead and support day to day operations across the following technologies and solutions \xe2\x80\x93

• Azure Active Directory, Active Directory, MIM, GPO, SSO, ADFS.
• Windows & Red Hat server management, MS MECM & Red Hat Satellite.
• Microsoft Azure Platform / Services / Functions.
• Enterprise mgmt. of SCOM, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, Storage (NetApp), PKI Certificates, KMS Licences.
• Automation experience in - Powershell, Bash, Ansible, DevOps, ARM, BICEP code.

- Candidate will demonstrate broader experience and knowledge of technologies outside of team scope, including networking, communication and application delivery concepts and usage.

- Have experience in mentoring and upskilling others, creating detailed documentation, and enforcing standard policies and processes, working closely with third parties to implement best practices.

- An effective communicator, with the ability to engage with a range of stakeholders, and adapt styles as situations require, -for example: can engage business stakeholders by explaining technical concepts in a way that can be easily understood.

and the Team

• Linklaters are a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.
• We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.
• Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.
• We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias, because we want everyone to feel that they belong. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common mind-set.
• We recognise that one size does not fit all. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our firm by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Key relationships

In the Firm

All Technology teams such as the regional Technology teams, Architecture, End-User Device, and Project Management, and outside Technology such as Front of House, lawyers, and other business teams colleagues who are users of the technologies

External

Third-party suppliers and the firm\xe2\x80\x99s clients

Key Benefits

• Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you\'ll be making to our success. These include:

Health & Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance
• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance & Protection

• Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will-writing services

Family & Lifestyle

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes
• Emergency family care
• Additional holiday/birthday leave
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave
• Travel insurance and season ticket loan
• Option to join sports and social clubs

What sets us apart

At Linklaters

• We offer a truly global work experience and the opportunity to be involved in strategic projects that drive innovation and shape the future of our business
• We belong to a firm that embodies its corporate social, environment, and governance responsibility commitments
• We celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion so our people can bring themselves to work
• We advocate speak-up culture to empower our people in sharing their voices and an open-door policy to ensure they are listened to
• We invest in custom-fit career paths for our people in line with their talents and aspirations
• We provide agile working solutions to meet the changing needs of our people and our business
• We are committed to people first relationships based on mutual trust, respect, and appreciation
• We support the health and wellbeing of our people, providing a safe space to talk about emotions and mental health with access to expert advice as needed
• We invest in developing leaders of the future who demonstrate emotional intelligence and a passion to discover, coach and develop the talents of others

Technical Skills:

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

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