Simon P.

IT Manager / Senior hands-on support

Gilwern, Wales, United Kingdom

About

An experienced IT professional with particular focus on client / server and infrastructure technologies. Proactive by nature means I have a passion for continuous improvement in all aspects of life. This is supported by a 'can do' customer focused team orientated attitude.

Experience

  • Senior IT Manager at Walters
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • IT Manager at Framatome
    Dec 2023 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Information Technology Support Engineer at Expleo
    Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Infrastructure Engineer at Norgine
    Feb 2022 - Jan 2024 · 2 yrs

  • Lead Data Centre Engineer at Sopra Steria
    Sep 2020 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Senior IT Engineer working on behalf of Sopra Steria. Responsible for the ongoing deployment, administration and decommissioning of physical / virtual servers VMware ESXi 6.7 / 7.0 including HA, DRS, vSAN and clustering. Windows 2012 & 2016 administration, including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and IP configuration. Patching of the above via WSUS, HP Firmware and VMware Update manager. HP Data Protector and VM Explorer backup to disk array and tape library management. System monitoring via Check MK. Processing of escalated Remedy Helpdesk tickets / requests. Mentoring colleagues, to promote local site knowledge.