SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Role: Senior Systems Administrator

Contracting Authority: Government

Contract Length: 12 Months

Location: Aldermaston – On Site

IR35: Inside

Pay Rate: £62.48 per hour

Clearance: DV Cleared

An exciting opportunity has become available with our prestigious client who is a prominent government department. The client is seeking an experienced Senior Systems Administrator to join their welcoming team.

The Senior Systems Administrator Role:

• To support the Technical Service Manager(s) and Team Leader in maintaining the operational status, and maximising availability of assets to programme demanders.

• Resolution of significant issues.

• Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.

• Additional accountabilities for this job profile may be defined and appointed through the Chief Engineer Management Arrangements, with appointees listed within the Company Design Authorities and Technical Authorities, as held in the company management system.

• Deliver Technical Excellence

• Provide a resilient cost effective highly available infrastructure to the business on top of which hosted services can be deployed, managed and maintained.

• To manage the day-to-day sustainment of Infrastructure Systems, ensuring that planning, end-user impact, change management and problem management are properly addressed and monitored to ensure that deadlines, budgets and service levels are met and results delivered.

• Be responsible for diagnosing and following through to resolution any problems, escalating to team members or other teams and vendors when required.

• Build relationships with other teams within IT Operations to enable better support and communications.

• To maintain technical skills to allow us to benefit from new and emerging technologies in order to make supportive decisions

• Attend technical briefing / support groups.

• Understand and develop support system road maps.

The Senior Systems Administrator Will Need:

• MS Windows Server knowledge/experience (2012/2016/2019)

• MS Server qualifications desirable

• Active DV Clearance

• Linux

• Working knowledge of Docker and containers

• VMware, ServiceNow, SM7/SM9 highly desirable

• Legato/EMC Networker, MS SCCM/SCOM, Citrix, Active Directory (AD), Exchange, Skype, Backup knowledge desirable

Minorities, women, LGBTQ+ candidates, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Interviews will take place next week, so please apply immediately to be considered for this exciting contract role or call Bangura Solutions to discuss this role further.