Project Engineer

If you are in infrastructure support and want more of your week spent building, migrating and improving systems rather than only reacting to tickets, this role is worth a look.

This is a Project Engineer role with a growing specialist cloud and managed services provider that delivers hosted IT environments for accountancy firms.

Project Engineer

Redhill, Surrey

£45,000 - £55,000

Hybrid working, 3 days per week in the office

The business is established, growing and well known in its niche. It provides full hosted IT platforms for customers, including hosted desktops, Microsoft 365, servers, line-of-business applications, storage, backup, networking and VPN connectivity.

They are now building a dedicated projects function, creating a good opportunity for someone from a strong 2nd / 3rd line, infrastructure or MSP background who wants to move further into project delivery.

The role

You will work on customer infrastructure projects across hosted desktop, Microsoft 365 and managed cloud environments.

The work will include new customer onboarding, migrations onto the hosted platform, existing customer refresh projects, infrastructure upgrades and wider service improvements. There is also a significant data centre consolidation programme underway, so the role offers more variety than standard support or repetitive onboarding.

You will be involved in:

Building and preparing customer environments across Windows Server, Microsoft 365, Active Directory and hosted desktop platforms

Supporting customer onboarding and migration projects

Migrating users, data, applications, profiles and Microsoft 365 services

Working with technologies such as Citrix, Microsoft RDS, VMware, Hyper-V, firewalls and VPNs

Supporting infrastructure refreshes, operating system upgrades and service improvements

Producing clear project notes, handover documents and technical records

Improving repeatable checklists, templates and processes

What you will need

You should have good practical experience with:

Windows Server

Active Directory and Group Policy

Microsoft 365 administration

Networking fundamentals

Firewalls, VPNs or site-to-site connectivity

Customer-facing technical support or infrastructure delivery

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