Stephen Kirkham

Infrastructure Engineer at DWP

Blackpool Area

About

An accomplished, highly conscientious and driven IT support technician with proven ability to work with internal and external stakeholders to achieve desired strategic results. A strong communicator with excellent interpersonal skills with a client focused approach and commitment to add value to the organisation. Experience spans from technical lead on many successful projects to UNIX server software installation and configuration, network support, database administration and 2nd/3rd line live server support.

Experience

  • Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) (9 yrs 11 mos)
    • Infrastructure Engineer
      Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Technical Support Analyst
      Aug 2016 - Present · 9 yrs 11 mos

  • Unix Systems Administrator at Hewlett-Packard
    Sep 2001 - Apr 2016 · 14 yrs 8 mos

    Technical Escalation for a 24/7 365 days a year AIX Server farm for a key UK Government contract. Technical Specialist applying Level 2 / 3 builds to a variety of UNIX Operating Systems.

  • STATISTICS ADMINISTRATOR / IMPLEMENTATION TECHNICIAN at SEMA / Syntegra
    Jan 1995 - Sep 2001 · 6 yrs 9 mos

  • ADMINISTRATION OFFICER at ITSA
    Aug 1994 - Jan 1995 · 6 mos