Systems Administrator
Cromwell
- Leicester
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Competitive Salary
- Company Bonus
- Competitive annual leave allowance with annual purchase scheme
- Group Personal Pension
- Company Funded Healthcare Cash Plan
- Commitment to employee development plans
- 24/7 Wellbeing and Employee Support
- Cycle to work scheme
- Become an active Sysadmin team member to jointly support operations day to day.
- Participate in daily MS Teams stand-up sessions, to engage, share and support each other.
- Working predominantly with Microsoft Server & Linux RedHat.
- Working to maintain & deploy on-prem physical servers.
- Working with cloud solutions within AWS & Azure.
- Working with Cisco network devices, firewalls, and Wi-Fi Access Points.
- Working with VMware virtualisation & SAN Storage.
- Working with MS Exchange (Hybrid) on-prem & Exchange Online.
- Working with MS RDS (terminal services) and published applications.
- Engage in Sysadmin related projects to design, configure, and deploy new solutions.
- Engage in Sysadmin duties to maintain current solutions & services as BAU.
- Undertake regular OS & application patching or upgrades.
- Work with InfoSec to ensure systems remain consistent with current security, compliance, policy, and legislation.
- Work with App Support to deploy new ERP client updates.
- Work with Manhattan WMS Support to deploy application updates.
- Apt at utilising diagnostic and monitoring tools to baseline & improve existing system stability and to optimise service.
- Backup & recovery - maintaining & verifying effective backups occur and can be used for recovery on-demand.
- Ticketing – organise, prioritise and service Sysadmin assigned tickets within SLA.
- Document Systems in terms of their use and build details, their configuration, and parameters.
- Provide support in and out of working hours as part of a formal support rota.
- Be flexible & available to attend Leicester HQ or UK branches to complete IT tasks.
- Explore and recommend new features, upgrades or technology that may improve or benefit existing operations.
- IT Technology team; DBAs, Developers, Digital, DevOps, InfoSec, App support and Servicedesk.
- Previous commercial experience as a Sysadmin in a large HA multi-tech environment.
- Must have proven track record in managing Windows Server (2012+) and Linux RedHat (RHEL6+).
- Must have prior experience with physical servers & networking equipment.
- Must have strong skills in VMWare & SAN Storage:
- vSphere, vMotion, ESXi & backend storage (HPE Nimble would be an advantage).
- Advantageous to have Veeam deployment, backup & recovery experience.
- Must have Microsoft skills at least to MS Professional standard:
- AD, DNS, Exchange, PowerShell, DFS, GPO, SSO, SAML, File & Print.
- RDS (terminal Services), published applications and management.
- Must have networking & IOS skills at least to a CCNA standard:
- Physical Networking experience (Catalysts, Switches, Routers, NTEs, Firewalls, Short Hauls/PTP, Wi-Fi).
- Logical Networking (IP, TCP, WAN, LAN, MPLS, Internet, AWS Direct Connect, VLAN, L2 / L3 Routing, IPsec, VPN)
- Prior experience with Cisco Meraki would be advantageous.
- Prior experience with Palo Alto or FortiGate firewalls would be an advantage.
- Must have experience of Cloud Services:
- AWS, Azure, O365, & Exchange Online.
- Must have cloud security integration experience:
- Azure Ad, Azure Active Sync, Salesforce Identity Connect, MFA/2FA.
- Must have SSL & CA certificate experience, how to generate, issue and apply.
- Containerisation & orchestration would be beneficial.
- Must have excellent awareness of security principles, their application & use.
- Must have current experience of modern monitoring systems, their configuration and how to interpretate and further diagnose alerts.
- Strong continuous improvement & problem-solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.