Windows Server Platform SME - Assistant Vice President

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Windows Server Platform SME - Assistant Vice President, London

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Client:

MUFG

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Job Views:

5

Posted:

29.06.2025

Expiry Date:

13.08.2025

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Job Description:

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world's leading financial groups. Across the globe, we're 120,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world's most trusted financial group, it's part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

Overview of the Department/Section:

MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia The group has over 150,000 employees, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.

As one of the top financial groups globally with a vison to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG's global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin everything that we do.We aim to be the financial partner of choice for our clients, whatever their requirements, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

MUFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: MTU) stock exchanges. The group's operating companies include, but are not limited to, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (Japan's leading trust bank), Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings (one of Japan's largest securities firms), and MUFG Americas Holdings.

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Main Purpose of the Role:

Responsible for managing, maintaining, enhancing Microsoft Windows Server related technologies across the estate

Part of a team providing 24x7 platform support internationally

Implementation of automated solutions adhering to the strategic goals within the department

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for all aspects of the Windows Server estate across MUFG

Primary responsibilities:

Ensure that all project/investment related workloads are delivered according to plans and defined budgets

Take part in the team rota including on-call and weekend working

Deliver against team BAU responsibilities

Identify savings across project & BAU activities to be implemented through automation involving a process flow of Service Now -> AWX -> Ansible / scripting

Support customer requirements through ticket-based task management as well as implementation of automation

Secondary responsibilities:

Take part in daily health and compliance checks for all Production systems as required

Ensure all Windows Server systems are backed up successfully and any issues are promptly resolved

Validate monitoring alerts are detected promptly and satisfactorily resolved

Ensure sufficient capacity is available to accommodate projected BAU & project growth

Respond to emails sent to the team distribution list in a timely manner.

Handle incidents and requests with efficiency and a "customer first" mindset

Maintain Windows Server platforms in a highly available, reliable, secure and performant manner

General maintenance activities

Provide technical support to application support and development teams

Provide consultancy to application support and development teams

Execute disaster recovery procedures when necessary and take part in regular DR tests

Ensure patches and security updates are applied as per defined policies

Maintain all operational procedures to ensure they are current and accurate

Take part in On-Call & weekend work rotation; triaging and addressing production issues as they arise

Identify cost saving and optimisation opportunities across the group.

Build strong working relationships across the organisation

Adhere to the core values of the bank.

Skills and Experience:

Windows Server 2k8 / 2k12 / 2k16 / 2k19 related technologies

CI/CD pipelines and other automation concepts

Git or other source code control software

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Security hardening principles in line with CIS industry benchmarks.

Excellent knowledge of networking, storage, database and virtualization layers.

Clustering and high-availability technologies

Replication and disaster recovery.

Security and auditing.

Excellent knowledge of data security governance and regulations such as GDPR and SOX.

Highly desirable:

Other scripting languages (batch, VBS, VBA & Python nice to haves).

Service Now automation /integration

Good working knowledge of GitHub, Subversion and TeamCity / similar tools

Splunk and QRadar

System Center implementation and management

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Understanding of DNS

Nutanix HCI.

EMC and HDS storage arrays.

EMC Networker, Data Domain and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

ESX VMWare

IBM Tivoli and Netcool

Active Directory, LDAP and Kerberos

SharePoint, JIRA and Confluence.

Working knowledge of cloud computing - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings across Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle.

Please note MUFG operate a hybrid policy with 3 days per week in the office

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.

We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.