IT Systems Administrator

Recruiter
Confidential
Location
Portsmouth
Salary
40000.00 - 45000.00 GBP Annual
Posted
25 Jul 2021
Closes
22 Aug 2021
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
IT Systems Administrator - based in Portsmouth, Hampshire

Paying up to GBP45,000 per annum plus benefits including Bonus, Healthcare, Private Medical Insurance, Pension (5% Contribution), 25 days holiday (increasing with service), staff discount, casual dress code, plus much more

A global ecommerce company is looking to hire an IT Systems Administrator to manage and maintain IT services and network installations in their offices and be a 3rd line technical resource. You'll also provide technical advice, implement industry best practices and to take a technical role within the team. You'll support the business in the maintenance and upkeep of existing IT infrastructure, IT applications, IT equipment and Telecoms services.

Overview:

Responsible for ensuring IT can meet all SLAs for incidents, requests and up time for any services that are time dependent and are also responsible for ensuring that the critical infrastructure which underpins the business is highly available and able to support business needs. The team maintains, supports and monitors all aspects of the IT infrastructure. Members of the team must be security aware and be cognizant of the risks and threats encountered in today's IT landscape. They ensure that the estate is secure and compliant with policy and are also involved in website process management, deployment and change management.

Key Job Accountabilities:

* To support, maintain and monitor a diverse range of server and network infrastructure.

* Work well within a team, with strong customer focus, and sense of ownership.

* Creation and maintenance of technical documentation.

* Fulfil a technical role in the IT Services team, providing knowledge-transfer to team-members when experience dictates.

* Liaising with 3rd party vendors and managed service partners to deliver a highly available always-on service.

* Managing incidents, service requests and following the change management process for Production Services team.

* Maintaining a high level of availability of services and minimising the risk of exposure to system downtime through continual monitoring of key systems.

* Making recommendations for system improvements optimizations and efficiencies.

Experience:

* eCommerce background will be highly regarded. With Specific, area's around ERP (Oracle), Warehouse Management (RedPrarie) and/or Commerce (CommerceTools)

* Good Cloud Technology Experience in Platforms such as: Azure, GCP or OCI

* Both Linux and Windows Server Knowledge

* Knowledge and Understanding Standard Infrastructure Technologies. Including, but not limited to: Virtualisation, Backup, Storage, Active Directory, Monitoring, Certification Authorities etc.

* Knowledge and understanding of standard Networking concepts. Including but not limited to: Layer 3 Routing protocols, routing protocols and IPSec/SSL VPN, Network Loadbalancing and Loadsharing, Basic Layer 2/Layer 3 troubleshooting commands and how to use them, etc

* Working knowledge of REST APIs

* Experience supporting message queuing systems

* Other key areas SSH, GIT, Packer, Terraform, Power Platform, Ansible, Automation

Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related field, and/or relevant work experience/qualifications.

2+ years' experience of:

* Application and Server infrastructure administration

* Hypervisors and virtualization technologies

* Microsoft SQL Server Administration

* Cloud platforms such as Azure, Google Cloud, AWS or OCI

Technologies:

* Microsoft Server, Azure, O365, Windows, SCEM

* Linux

* Cisco

* Cloud platforms such as Azure, Google Cloud, AWS or OCI

* Virtualisation

* Backup

* Storage

* Active Directory

* Monitoring (Solarwinds)

* Certification Authorities

If you are an experienced Systems Administrator or IT Engineer with the required listed skills and experience then please apply not to find out more