Do you have experience within the financial services sector? Are you looking for a new challenge? If the answer is YES, the team at White Oak could have the ideal role for you.

White Oak are currently recruiting for a Full Time Cloud & Infrastructure Security Engineer to join our IT team. This is a hybrid role based at our Chester office.

What will I be responsible for?

As a Cloud Engineer you will be part of a team that maintains the company's infrastructure, both on prem and in the cloud, with a view to move more systems into the Cloud. Day to day duties will include:

Manage and maintain company firewall according to best practices.

Manage & maintain company network infrastructure, ensuring remediation of all faults.

3rd party relationship management (vendor/support)

Manage & maintain company server infrastructure, ensuring remediation of all faults.

Monitor server infrastructure to ensure that the company has enough resources to facilitate its needs.

Setup and configure business group policies.

Setup, manage and configure all server-based software including but not limited to IIS, SQL, File shares, Oracle, Exchange, SharePoint and Manage Engine.

Prevent or mitigate security incidents through proactive threat analysis and treatment.

Ensure that White Oak security appliances work optimally and are utilised according to best practice.

Manage and assure the business' DR and BCP Plans

Conduct, arrange and remediate 3rd party penetration tests.

Investigate and deliver new and relevant technologies, policies, processes and procedures.

Conduct due diligence on 3rd Party IT systems.

Ensure that White Oak cloud infrastructure is secure and available.

Essential Skills

Who are we looking for?

As our ideal Cloud Engineer, you will possess:

Previous 2nd or 3rd line support experience

Networking experience - TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, WLAN, Switching, Routing, policy-based Firewalls, VPN, Private Cloud

Web Gateways / Proxy Servers

Microsoft Server Operating Systems

Microsoft Office 365

Knowledge/Interest of SQL

Knowledge of Active directory

Knowledge of Group policy management

Knowledge of Veeam backup and resiliency

Knowledge of AWS and/or Azure

Knowledge of SAN technology

Knowledge of Cloud configuration and security

Knowledge of replication best practices

Knowledge of network best practices

Knowledge of security best practices

Microsoft Operating Systems, O365 and EMS

Desirable Skills

About Company

What we can offer you:

As our Packager, we can offer a highly competitive salary plus commission and a range of benefits including 28 days holiday, private medical insurance, travel insurance, pension contributions, EAP, Cycle to Work and more.

About the company:

White Oak is an FCA authorised and regulated European Lending Platform which provides capital to support SMEs and mid-corporates through its full suite of flexible lending products. Headquartered in the UK, White Oak's team of 170 specialists currently services a loan portfolio of over £500 million and have originated over £1.5 billion of assets since 2018. As a financing affiliate of White Oak Global Advisors, LLC (WOGA), White Oak is able to access investor capital to support White Oak's lending activities to complement its funding from banks and other financial institutions.

If this sounds like the ideal role for you, please click APPLY now to register your interest in the role of Financial Packager