It Systems Administrator

IT SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR / CHELTENHAM (REMOTE) / UP TO £55K & GREAT BENEFTIS

Exciting new opportunity for an experienced IT Systems Administrator to join a rapidly growing organisation. Remote working, with occasional attendance at customer sites in the Midlands and South West as required. Excellent pay & extensive benefits package.

In 2019, our founders were working as engineers solving complex cross domain problems in defence and security organisations.

TwinStream was formed to consolidate their collective expertise and experience into one business, providing technical excellence and exceptional service to their clients. The business is headquartered in Cheltenham with teams working both on-site with clients and remotely from home.

What’s on Offer?

• Highly competitive salary of £40,000 to £55,000 (depending on experience).
• Remote work - with occasional visits to customer sites in the Midlands and South West
• Pension - 8% pension plan.
• Learning and Development - A £1,000 training budget to help with your development.
• 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays.
• Every quarter, we hold a meeting involving all team members from TwinStream - this allows us to meet up, chat about all things TwinStream, and enjoy team building and company updates.
• Christmas and summer parties to celebrate our successes.
• Opportunity to lease an electric vehicle via salary sacrifice
• Health and Well-being - Access to workplace Mental Health First Aider
• Life assurance

Key Responsibilities of the IT Systems Administrator:

• Maintain and deploy laptops (Dell XPS, Apple MacBook Pro) and mobile devices (Google Pixel, Apple iPhone)
• Build and maintain operating systems (Windows 11+, macOS 14+, Ubuntu Linux 22+, Android 14+, iOS/iPadOS 17+)
• Build and maintain portable WiFi routers running OpenVPN client
• Administer JML processes
• Provide 1st and 2nd line IT support (inc. use and administration of Jira Service Management)
• Administer Microsoft365
• Administer SaaS corporate tools (e.g., Afi, Xoralia, 1Password Business and Exclaimer)
• Maintain IT asset register (in Jira Service Management)
• Administer Atlassian tools (e.g., Confluence, Jira Software, BitBucket and Access)
• Administer Cloud subscriptions (AWS Organisations, Accounts and limited IaaS, and Azure Tenants, Subscriptions, Entra ID and limited IaaS)
• Maintain and administer various IaaS tools (e.g., Jenkins, Nexus and SonarQube)
• Maintain and administer CA server, certificate distribution and certificate revocation
• Administer and distribute Yubikeys and MFA hardware tokens
• Administer and maintain a small number (<10) of "lab" servers, and a small number (<10) of "lab" devices such as remote power switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs
• Administer DNS and DHCP for internal lab networks
• Administer information protection tooling (e.g., Microsoft Purview)

Skills & Experience:

• Thorough, diligent, meticulous finisher
• Strong multi-tasker - able to carry out long-running tasks while sometimes context-switching to deal with incidents and issues, before resuming long-running tasks
• Proactive, flexible and adaptable
• Excellent critical thinking skills and intellectual curiosity
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills. Self-motivated and able to work independently, driving initiatives forward
• The successful candidate must be eligible for DV clearance

What’s Next?

If you have the skillset and enthusiasm to hit the ground running in this IT Systems Administrator position, we would love to hear from you. APPLY NOW for immediate consideration.

Further Information:

Due to the industries in which some of our clients work, and to comply with their requirements, any offer would be conditional on achieving satisfactory Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) screening results, and on subsequently achieving and retaining Developed Vetting (DV) clearance.