This is a perfect opportunity for ambitious individuals to join a team of curious minds and support peers with a passion and the skills for creating value for businesses using data.
**This position is available remotely for talents based in Portugal or Malta.
About Us
We are Ascent! and we help our customers solve problems, elevate, and do existing things better. We are on a mission to help our customers connect data, software, and purpose to create extraordinary outcomes. You could say we are a digital transformation business.
We specialize in software product development, analytics, data science, IoT solutions, machine learning, DevOps optimization, and modernization of applications, data, and platforms.
We work with incredible clients in all types of industries such as smart home devices, space exploration, beer manufacturing, finance, ecology, and logistics. We work with some of the sharpest minds in the brightest businesses and we employ the sharpest minds too!
About the role
We are searching for a Modern Workplace Engineer (IT Microsoft Engineer) with a focus on automation and using the Microsoft Cloud Stack to monitor and manage the company’s real estate. In this role, you will be part of a wider team focusing on internal stakeholders.
A naturally driven person with a continuous improvement mindset who is customer focused and forward-thinking. You must have a sense of humour and appreciate a constant flow of tickets. You will support and maintain software and hardware infrastructure for end-user computing, onsite and cloud environments.
You will work and share your time across delivering on modernisation projects and providing support.
You will enjoy working in a collaborative way.
You will be joining a company of an inclusive and diverse team of experienced technical systems who care about creating the right solution.
We are committed to continuous improvement and sharing technical knowledge and lessons learnt. We are passionate about development, growth and continuous learning and will offer you opportunities for breadth as well as depth in your knowledge.
If this sounds like an environment in which you would thrive, then this could be the next role for you.
What you will be doing
The main aim of the Modern Workplace Engineer is to modernise our infrastructure utilising Microsoft products in conjunction with our Microsoft Partnership.
Provide continual improvement and process automation. Delivery of short-term and long-term IT projects. Manage the lifecycle of devices, applications & data management. Provide technical input into strategic direction. Manage Active Directory & Azure AD Identity.
Administer cloud environments (SaaS, PaaS, IoT, IaaS). Procure and provision of IT equipment as required. Create proposals and solutions with the internal Infrastructure Team. Focus on completing IT Projects, installations, configurations, and changes in an effective manner with attention to detail. Design, develop and test infrastructure for roll-out.
The role requires technical knowledge, flexibility and an ability to produce technical documentation. You will be required to write project tasks, detailed instructions for end users, technical documentation, and ongoing support documents. You would also provide technical training of systems to support BAU when needed. You will also engage with our internal stakeholders to understand infrastructure and licensing requirements in support of their business problems.
Technical skills and Experience
Working at Ascent
At Ascent we promote a healthy work-life balance by offering flexibility in where you work. We also promote well-being and provide access to Well Being Coaches.
Your development and learning will be taken seriously, and we'll support your professional development with training and certification, with regular feedback and review. It is a fun, supportive and modern workplace where we really live by our company values of Empathy, Energy and Audacity! Ascent also offers a variety of benefits in each of our countries.
Ascent is an equal opportunities employer. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are something real here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favourably because of their gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation, please let us know when you apply.
If you have any questions contact our Talent Acquisition team on ta.admin@ascent.io.
For more details about life at Ascent, check out our Life Page here.
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