Simon Iskander
Senior Windows Systems Engineer @Santander UK
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Windows Systems Engineer @Santander UK
Milton Keynes, GB
Mentoring and supervision of more junior engineers managing engagements with stakeholders and other application teams and overseeing project work.Mentored a more junior engineer on learning PowerShell and developing code for hardening Windows servers at build time.Support, provisioning and administration within a large Windows server estate – approximately servers across multiple AD domains and physical data centres.Development of PowerShell scripts for server build processes, application deployments and patching reporting
EDUCATION
Imperial College London
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computing
South Nottingham College
A Levels, Maths Physics Computing
SKILLS
ABOUT SIMON ISKANDER
IT infrastructure engineering lead/architect with 20+ years’ extensive and varied experience of designing, implementing, and managing server infrastructure on-premises and in hybrid/public cloud (Azure and AWS) for both internal staff and external customers. I have several years experience of working within regulated sectors such as financial services (banking and payments) and law enforcement/emergency services.My main technical areas of expertise include Windows Server, PowerShell and the Microsoft stack of applications. I am always keen to develop my existing skills further and learn new ones – particularly within public cloud and infrastructure-as-Code/automation.Leadership/professional skills* Mentoring, developing and overseeing more junior engineers and deputising for team managers* Engagement with stakeholders in relation to change and incident management and service transition* Vendor management in relation to implementation and design of infrastructure and managing capacity/capability uplifts and major incidents.Technical skills• Microsoft Azure: VMs, networking, storage, Azure Backup Center, Azure Site Recovery• Amazon Web Services (AWS): EC2, EBS, VPC, S3, SSM, networking• Infrastructure-as-Code: Ansible, Terraform• Configuration Management: SCCM/MECM, InTune, Group Policy, PowerShell DSC• Scripting: PowerShell, DOS batch, T-SQL• Operating Systems: Windows Server, Windows Server Core, CentOS/Ubuntu• Virtualisation: Microsoft Hyper-V, SCVMM, VMware ESXI/vSphere, Nutanix AHV• Identity/Access Management: Azure AD, Active Directory, AD Certificate Services• Microsoft Technologies: Failover Clustering, Remote Desktop Services, IIS, WSUS, SQL Server, Exchange, Azure AD Connect/Cloud Sync, Microsoft 365• Backup/DR: Veritas NetBackup, Cohesity DataProtect, Veeam Backup & Replication• Cybersecurity: Server hardening, vulnerability management• Monitoring: SCOM, PRTG, Grafana, Influx, Telegraf, Prometheus• Service Management/Compliance: ITIL Change, Incident and Problem Management
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