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Christos Michaelides
Infrastructure Engineer
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Founding Contractor · 2026
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Primary specialism
Infrastructure & Networking
Location / working location
Chelmsford
Current availability
Available now
Confirmed 11 Aug 2026
Profile status
Active contractor profile
Professional profile
• Supported Azure-based insurance administration systems, ensuring high availability, performance, monitoring, patching and maintenance across application infrastructure. • Built and migrated IIS/web application servers and associated SQL databases across enterprise environments. • Managed SQL Server clustering, maintenance, backup and DR procedures for critical application platforms. • Worked with application owners and third-party vendors to migrate legacy applications to supported Windows Server/IIS/SQL platforms. • Maintained High Availability Sites with enterprise On-Prem Hyper-V and ESXI environments, Failover Clusters and • Provided 24/7 production support for global application environments hosted across multiple data center platforms.
Core skills
Application infrastructure support
IIS administration
.NET application environments
SQL Server administration
SQL-backed web applications
Azure-based business systems
Windows Server 2012 R2-2019
Active Directory
GPO
DNS and DHCP
VMware / Hyper-V virtualisation
Monitoring
alerting and incident response
Application migration and server upgrades
Backup
What I’m looking for next
Target roles: Application Support · Infrastructure Engineer · Systems Engineer
Contract preferences
Working preferenceRemote · Hybrid
IR35 preferenceInside IR35
Expected rate
£450–£550/day
Contract lengthAny contract length
IT experience20 years
Contracting experience20 years
Relevant work experience
• Application infrastructure support across IIS, .NET, SQL Server, Windows Server and Azure-based business systems. • SQL-backed application support, database maintenance, HA/clustering, backup, migration and performance troubleshooting. • IIS web server builds, application hosting, migrations, upgrades, patching and monitoring. • Active Directory, GPO, DNS, DHCP, access groups, PKI, DFS and supporting platform services. • VMware, Hyper-V, virtual server maintenance, provisioning, conversion and resource optimisation. • Incident response, alert management, health checks, vendor liaison and stakeholder communication. • Disaster recovery, backup procedures, endpoint security and operational documentation.
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