System Administrator

As a System Adminitrator for our Aerospace, Defence and Security sector, you’ll work within our client’s on-site system administration team, where you’ll provide technical expertise in support of their mission critical systems. Drawing from your system infrastructure knowledge and experience, you’ll work with other departments to support and improve all aspects of the system administration function, performing tasks such as routine monitoring and maintenance, backup and replication management, incident response and troubleshooting, technical procedure production, and performance of system upgrades.

What you'll be doing:

• System monitoring, routine checks and maintenance.
• Management of backups/replication to disaster recovery platforms.
• Respond to system incidents and troubleshoot to resolution.
• Perform user onboarding (active directory/application management).
• Participate in the 24/7 on-call rota (approximately 1 week in every 8).

What you’ll bring:

• Experience in Windows desktop and server system administration.
• Knowledge of enterprise virtualisation such as Vmware vSphere.
• Installation and configuration of bespoke & COTS software & hardware.
• Windows scripting skills (batch, powershell).
• Ability to produce clear and concise documentation.
• Communication and customer service skills.

It would be great if you had:

• ITIL Foundation.
• Technical certification (Microsoft, CompTIA, etc).
• Microsoft Excel proficiency (Especially VBA).
• SQL database experience.
• Experience within a defence environment.
• A continuous improvement approach.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Carterton
Security Clearance Level: SC Clearance
Internal Recruiter: Lee
Salary: £35,000-40,000 per annum dependent on experience
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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Our Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions that bring clients enduring business value across the UK’s Public and Private sectors. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported, delivering exceptional rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Verdica, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.