Senior Systems Administrator (Dv)

Senior Systems Administrator X2 (DV) (Inside IR35)

Contract Term: 12 Months

Contracting Authority: AWE

Location: On site at Aldermaston 5 Days per week

What if you could work on something that you can’t test… but cannot afford to fail? Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work? Some challenge.

That’s exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day: delivering important work, in support of the most important mission – keeping the nation safe.

AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.

As a Senior Systems Administrator, your main responsibilities will be: 

• Provide a resilient cost effective and highly available software/infrastructure to the business and ensure it is managed and maintained.
• Responsible for diagnosing and following through to resolution any problems, escalating to team members or other teams and vendors when required.
• Manage the day-to-day sustainment of application configuration and Infrastructure, 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.
• Build relationships with other teams within IT Operations to enable better support and communications.
• Maintain technical skills to allow us to benefit from new and emerging technologies in order to make supportive decisions

Essential:

• Experience working in MS Azure
• PLM experience (product lifecycle management experience

Desirable:

• NX Open knowledge
• GIT
• JavaScript experience

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch.

AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, AWE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following “this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.