Lead System Engineer

Every time you pick up the phone, surf the Internet, travel on a motorway, catch a train, bus or tube, or even dial 999; chances are telent have enabled the technology to make this happen.  We are currently recruiting for a Lead Systems Engineer to join the Transport side of their business based from our office near Canning Town. This is a Hybrid role with half your time in the office and the rest from home.

The Lead System Engineer will work in a small team that supports both the projects team and maintenance team delivering works across London Underground and Network Rail systems

Key Requirements:

• Experience of designing, building, testing and maintaining Windows Server architectures


• Worked with or built virtualisation instances preferably VMware.


• Experience with deploying cyber security systems and processes.


• Experience with maintaining or building Microsoft SQL databases.


•  (desirable)


• Qualifications: Microsoft Server Certification including Servers and or SQL and Cisco CCNA (desirable)

What you’ll do: 

• The role will be to lead a team of IT infrastructure focused systems engineers


• Support the maintenance and upgrade of IT infrastructure including windows servers SQL databases and VMware. 


• Acting as the lead engineer to provide technical support for the maintenance and project delivery teams.


• The work will be across our internal remote systems and supporting and our customer systems.


• Provide a technical interface to the client.

Who you are:

You will be an effective communicator (both written and verbal) with proven experience within a networks or Server infrastructure environment and communicate effectively and be able to communicate positively with customers and colleagues in a challenging environment.

What we offer:

• 34 days holiday, including public holidays, plus the option to buy or sell five days each year 


• Car Allowance


• Company pension scheme 


• Individual Healthcare


• A range of family friendly policies 


• Occupational health support and wellbeing Portal 


• Discounts on Cinema, Restaurants and Shopping with Telent Reward scheme 

Brilliance brought together. 

We are guided by our values and behaviours: 

• Be Inclusive


• Take Responsibility


• Collaborate


• Be Customer-focussed