Senior Systems Administrator

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Location:
Cargo Fleet | Middlesbrough
Starting Salary £:
35000
Job Description

Altrad UK currently has an opportunity for a Senior Systems Administrator to join their busy team at Cargo Fleet in Middlesbrough.

As part of this role, you will control, maintain and administer all company systems to a high level of accuracy, whilst ensuring company procedures and policies are adhered to.

You will also report to management on performance of systems, provide third line support to all ICT teams and actively engage with other team members in internal training, mentorship and knowledge transfer

Roles and Responsibilities
  • Provide support to the Systems Administration Manager
  • Diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve service, software and hardware issues
  • Install, configure and maintain service, software, hardware and application components
  • Identify and implement new strategies for optimal system operations and processes
  • Enforce security best practices to prevent cyber-attacks and security breaches
  • Document internal processes for achieving consistent implementation and optimal performance of systems and services
  • Complete Active Directory Management, including but not limited to group policy, users, computers/servers, DHCP, DNS, PKI and security
  • Microsoft Office 365 services configuration, management and support
  • Microsoft Azure services configuration, management and support
  • Management of approximately 600+ worldwide servers across multiple domains, and ensuring that the servers are maintained including MS critical/security updates, vendor software updates and remediation of monitored errors
  • Provide support to business software owners running on managed ICT servers
  • Responsible for administering, upgrading and maintaining all back-end systems including but not limited to Cisco ACS/UCS, Lenovo/Microsoft Hyperconverged infrastructure, IBM Storage Area Networks etc.
  • Follow the change management processes to ensure all changes are logged and changes applied with no un-scheduled downtime.
  • Responsible for administering, upgrading and maintaining all existing systems including Exchange, SCCM, SQL, Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix, RDS, SCOM etc.
  • Responsible for ensuring Anti-virus is fully functioning and up-to-date across the WAN and all servers are protected
  • To fully manage the Citrix/RDS/Azure Farms and Remote Published Apps.
  • To assist management team in capacity planning
  • To assist management team in availability planning
  • To manage and implement operational projects
  • To liaise and cooperate with the projects team on business project implementations
  • To ensure all servers are monitored and the expected server  performance is delivered
  • Use the call management system to track and action calls/changes within agreed SLAs
  • To proactively look for improvements and investigate new technologies which could improve the service provided to the Altrad businesses
  • 24x7x365 rota-based on-call server support
  • To act as an escalation point for all ICT Teams for any technical issues they encounter and to endeavour to provide a solution and/or advice
Experience Required
  • Proven experience in a Systems Administrator role of at least 3 years
  • Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills is essential
  • Good knowledge and experience of Microsoft Windows 10/11 is essential
  • Good knowledge and experience of Microsoft RDS/App-V is essential
  • Good knowledge and experience of Microsoft Hyper-V/SCVMM is essential
  • Good knowledge and experience of Microsoft Azure is essential
  • Good knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office 365 is essential
  • Good Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Windows 2003 through 2022 is essential
  • Good Knowledge and experience of Active Directory/DNS/DHCP and other Microsoft domain technologies is essential
  • Good knowledge and experience of Microsoft Exchange 2013/2019 is essential
  • Good time keeping and self-organisational skills are essential
  • Good Knowledge and experience of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager is desirable
  • Knowledge and experience of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager and Zabbix monitoring platforms is desirable
  • Knowledge and experience of Microsoft SQL Server is desirable
  • Knowledge and experience of ForcePoint Web Security is desirable
  • Knowledge and experience of IBM/Lenovo Servers and Cisco UCS is desirable
  • Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Hyperconverged infrastructure is desirable
  • Knowledge and experience of Linux (Red Hat/Cent OS) is desirable
  • Knowledge and experience of IBM SAN Storage is desirable
  • Knowledge and experience of Windows Scripting (PowerShell) is desirable
  • Knowledge and experience of VMware ESX is desirable
  • Knowledge and experience of Citrix Presentation Server/XenApp is desirable
  • Knowledge and experience of General TCP/IP, routing, VPN’s and Firewall networking is desirable
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Resourcefulness and ability to work under pressure to ensure satisfactory outcomes
Closing Date
Employment Type:
FULL TIME
Client Ref:
R00002438
Country:
UK
Keywords:
IT Systems
Address:
Cargo Fleet
Town:
Middlesbrough
Postcode:
TS23 4BX
Status:
Filled