Senior Systems Administrator/ 3rd Line Support
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Location
Taunton
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Salary:
£33000 - £35000 per annum
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Contact:
Jeffrey Barr
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Email:
jbarr@yolkrecruitment.com
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Contact phone:
02920 220078
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Job ref:
BH-27576
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Published:
over 2 years ago
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Expiry date:
2022-02-11
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Start date:
2022-01-21
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Consultant:
ConsultantDrop
Yolk Recruitment are sourcing for an exciting role as a Senior Systems Administrator. You will be providing expert 3rd line technical advice and support to all our systems. This role will be part of a team providing 24*7 cover through an on-call rota and will be required to provide on-call cover outside of normal working hours. Additional payments will be made for this.
Responsibilities include:
We are looking for someone that is a team player, self-motivating, with a positive and pro-active approach to the challenges that the post demands.
You will need to be focused on the timely delivery of solutions to support the businesses needs at all times.
You should also possess the following attributes: (Please note that we will only score against the sift and interview criteria found in "selection process details" and not the essential and desirable information below)
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, acting with professionalism at all times
- Ability to understand the needs of the customer.
- Ability to make sound decisions.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Able to manage own workload and time efficiently. Uses initiative and ability to work unsupervised and understands the need to plan in advance and think through the potential complications. Identifies appropriate solutions to problems and acts accordingly.
- Regularly monitor own and team’s work against milestones or targets and act promptly to keep work on track and maintain performance
Skills / Experience:
Essential:
- Strong communications skills and the ability to present to all staff at the appropriate level
- Expert technical experience of wide variety of Server, Storage and Networking technologies at a 3rd Line Support level.
- Knowledge of IT security best practice, with particular emphasis on MOD standards and accreditation process.
- Expert experience of Microsoft Windows Servers 2016, 2019, Microsoft Hyper-V and other Server and infrastructure technologies in a large enterprise environment, either holding appropriate qualifications or working toward them.
- Experience in Microsoft Azure cloud technologies both IaaS and PaaS concepts and configuration.
- Experience with Microsoft Office 365 technologies including Azure active directory.
- Experience with troubleshooting enterprise applications across a diverse range of technologies.
Desirable:
- Have experience of leadership in a technical/support team environment). Experience of directing others to undertake tasks.
- Familiar with business continuity concepts such as the methods and techniques for risk management, business impact analysis, countermeasures and contingency arrangements relating to the serious disruption of IT services.
- Awareness of AWS Cloud Technologies
- Experience of Linux Operating Systems and other open source technologies
- Experience of Powershell scripting or other automation technologies
- Experience with Fortinet products
