IT Senior Systems Administrator – Middlesbrough

Altrad are currently looking for an IT Senior Systems Administrator to join the team based in Middlesbrough.

The successful candidate will control, maintain and administer all company systems to a high level of accuracy, ensure company procedures and policies are adhered to and report to management on performance of systems.

Key Deliverables

• Complete Active Directory Management, including but not limited to group policy, users, computers/servers, DHCP, DNS, PKI and security
• Microsoft Office 365 services configuration, management and support
• Microsoft Azure/Entra services configuration, management and support
• Management of approximately 600+ worldwide servers across multiple domains, and ensuring that the servers are maintained including MS critical/security updates, vendor software updates and remediation of monitored errors
• Provide support to business software owners running on managed ICT servers
• Responsible for administering, upgrading and maintaining all back-end systems
• Follow the change management processes to ensure all changes are logged and changes applied with no un-scheduled downtime.
• Responsible for administering, upgrading and maintaining all existing systems including Exchange, SCCM, SQL, etc.
• Responsible for ensuring security products are fully functioning and up-to-date across the WAN and all servers are protected
• To fully manage the RDS/Azure Farms and Remote Published Apps.
• To assist management team in capacity planning
• To assist management team in availability planning
• To manage and implement operational projects
• To liaise and cooperate with the projects team on business project implementations
• To ensure all servers are monitored and the expected server performance is delivered
• Use the call management system to track and action calls/changes within agreed SLAs
• To proactively look for improvements and investigate new technologies which could improve the service provided to the Altrad businesses
• 24x7x365 rota-based on-call server support
• To act as an escalation point for all ICT Teams for any technical issues they encounter and to endeavor to provide a solution and/or advice

Key Requirements / Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge and experience of Microsoft Azure/Entra is essential
• Excellent knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office 365 is essential
• Excellent knowledge and experience of Microsoft Windows Server up to 2025 is essential
• Good knowledge and experience of Microsoft Windows 11 is essential
• Good knowledge and experience of Microsoft RDS/AVD is essential
• Good knowledge and experience of Active Directory/DNS/DHCP and other Microsoft domain technologies is essential
• Good knowledge and experience of Microsoft Exchange SE is essential
• Knowledge and experience of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager is desirable
• Knowledge and experience of Zabbix monitoring platforms is desirable
• Knowledge and experience of Delinea Secret Server/Platform is desirable
• Knowledge and experience of Microsoft SQL Server is desirable
• Knowledge and experience of ForcePoint Web Security is desirable
• Knowledge and experience of Linux (Red Hat/Cent OS) is desirable
• Knowledge and experience of Windows Scripting (PowerShell) is desirable
• Knowledge and experience of General TCP/IP, routing, VPN’s and Firewall networking is desirable
• Knowledge and experience of Tenable Nessus/Cloud is desirable
• Proven experience in a Systems Administrator role of at least 3 years
• Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills are essential
• Good time keeping and self-organisational skills are essential
• Excellent communication skills
• Resourcefulness and ability to work under pressure to ensure satisfactory outcomes

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