Location - Watford with some flexibility to work from home

Contract: 1 year Full-Time, Fixed Term Contract initially

Salary - c £36,000 per annum

Action for Children

Every year, Action for Children impacts on the lives of 310,000 children, young people and their families across the UK, through our professional and committed workforce of c.4700.

We now have a fantastic opportunity to join our technology department working with the Senior Integration Analyst to deliver organizational wide corporate system support. The role will see you supporting existing integration links and working with users to build and test new integrations.

The role will see you?

Provide technical support within the specialist area of expertise for IT development projects
Work closely and collaboratively with stakeholders to understand and define business requirements to enable the efficient, effective and innovative use of IT within their functions
Assist with the development, monitoring and to regularly test, service and apply disaster recovery procedures for key information systems and ICT infrastructure elements, including backup and system recovery and responding immediately or referring to senior management risks identified
Respond to capacity and availability within specialist areas of systems and infrastructure, taking corrective action when service levels are threatened or breached and to design and develop solutions to maintain the capability, availability, security and supportability of our systems
Plan, manage, test and release and implement significant changes to our systems, infrastructure or service provision
Implement and monitor the security of the ICT infrastructure, and user activity and respond immediately to threats and breaches
Contributing to continuous-improvement programs for the department

The person?

Degree or equivalent relevant experience
ITIL Foundation - desirable
Strong experience with customisation and configuration of systems
Excellent stakeholder management skills
Experience of software project delivery
Experience of working in service support environment
Experience of proactively monitoring and maintaining IT Systems and Infrastructure

Essential

An understanding of the SQL language and SQL Server both on premise and in Azure
Knowledge of Azure Logic Apps/Flow & Azure API Management
An understanding of Azure foundations, Networking, Virtual Machines & Storage
Experience of PowerShell Scripting

Desirable

Experience of Microsoft Biztalk Server 2013
Experience of .NET language - Especially C#

Please refer to the full job description and person specification for further information.

The Rewards?

We offer a highly competitive salary, with a minimum of 7 weeks leave (i.e. 29 days' plus bank holidays), an excellent company pension scheme, regular and supportive supervision, season ticket travel loan facility, interest free Development Loans and discounts at major high street retailers. Plus, a lot more.

We look forward to your application!

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