Ekco is on a journey to becoming a leading force in the Global tech landscape! We accelerate our customers digital ambitions security and intelligently through our focus on People Excellence, Customer Closeness, Speed of Execution, and Innovation & Thought leadership.

We have over 900 highly talented and supportive colleagues (and counting) across a number of locations in the UK, Netherlands, Ireland, Malaysia and South Africa!

About the role:

Our clients are looking for assistance navigating the vast array of services available within a public cloud, as well as expert setup and configuration in line with best-practice guidelines, complete with the requisite monitoring and alerts. As a Systems Engineer, one of your primary responsibilities is to respond to customer requests, incident tickets, and change requests and record those appropriately in our service desk system and deal with them to ensure the customers enjoy an awesome service!

A key aspect of the role will be to deploy new environments or services to existing and new customers as part of multi-practice project teams.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• 4+ years VMware experience, within a large-scale environment, with a high standard of vSphere knowledge
• Windows Server Administration - eg, Patching, Active Directory, Configuration
• Deployment of Virtual Networks and Hybrid Cloud Networks
• Knowledge of cloud security-related services - Load Balancers, Secrets Management, Firewalls
• Monitoring - eg, Nagios/Zabbix/Solarwinds/PRTG
• SAN storage arrays (ideally at least one of Pure, Dell EMC or NetApp)
• Confident in contributing technical knowledge during the detailed service design process
• Linux/Unix Server Administration - eg, Patching, Configuration

Desired Skills

• Ivanti Security Controls Experience
• vCloud Director Experience
• Veeam Experience
• Zerto Experience
• Up to date VCP-DCV
• SQL Experience - eg, MSSQL, PostGres etc
• Citrix Experience
• Kubernetes Experience
• Experience gathering customer requirements and joining pre-sales consultancy effort

Benefits/perks:

• Time off - 25 days leave + public holidays
• x1 day Birthday leave per year
• Company Pension Scheme (employer contribution 5%) + flexible salary sacrifice
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - access to dedicated mental health, emotional wellbeing and general advice
• Private Medical Healthcare with Bupa (post probation)
• Discounted Dental Insurance with Bupa (via salary sacrifice)
• Regular EkcoEats socials - monthly lunch in the office for all
• EkcOlympics - a global activity for fun!
• Learning & development - Unlimited access to Pluralsight learning platform
• A lot of responsibilities & opportunities to grow (also internationally)

Why Ekco:

• Microsoft's 2023 Rising Star Security Partner of the year
• VMware & Veeam top partner status
• Ranked as 4th fastest growing technology company in the Deloitte Fast50 Awards
• Ekco are committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equality, inclusion and belonging
• We recognise the value of internal mobility and encourage opportunities for internal development & progression
• Flexible working with a family friendly focus are at the core of our company values