Systems Administrator

• Experience with customer facing roles.
• Conversant with IBM Rational suite (ClearCase / ClearQuest).
• Experience in supporting and managing hardware/software assets.
• Experience in software licence management.
• Experience in Printer management.
• Conversant with MS Office suite (Word / Excel etc.).
• Conversant with PowerShell and scripting. Understanding physical hardware configuration and being able to build and modify COTS equipment to details specifications.
• Windows Defender and Trellix Anti-virus.

A new opportunity has arisen for an experienced System Administrator to work on-site in Farnborough.

Due to the nature of the work and the customers we support, the successful candidate must be eligible to meet UK Government and contractual personnel security requirements, including the applicable residency requirements for the role, and have the right to work in the United Kingdom. Some roles may also be subject to nationality requirements where these are necessary to meet UK Government or contractual security obligations

Vacancy for a System Administrator.

Experienced System Administrator required for an office-based role fulfilling contractual requirements.

A Systems Engineer undertaking the System Administration role provides computing facilities to the delivery team and maintains those facilities to meet project needs. They are responsible for providing a Project Support Environment that meets the specification defined by the Design Office.

The System Engineer (System Administration) is responsible for:

• Working with the STL to ensure that the facilities required to enable the team to deliver contracted support and change requirements are available and maintaining these facilities to ensure availability as required by the project team.
• Providing access to the Project Support Environment to meet requirements.
• Providing internal system help desk support to staff.
• Producing and maintaining a schedule of work associated with the administration and maintenance of the facilities.
• Undertaking System Administration tasks identified within the System Team Backlog in accordance with the policies and procedures detailed in the Air QMS (Quality Management System).
• Monitoring and reporting on environment performance.
• Manage the environment in order to maintain its performance and availability.
• Ensuring that all data held on the system is backed up and can be restored in the event of any data loss.
  • Work within the boundaries of the Quality Management System (QMS) and the procedures defined within it i.e.;
    • Starters & Leavers process.
    • Internal equipment moves.
  • Providing Licencing support as required:
    • Obtain Licence quotes for software used on the account.
  • Some weekend working will be required for regular software patching.
  • May be required to be on call (rare occurrences).

Systems Team Lead / Service Delivery Manager;

• Accountable to the STL/SDM for the execution of System Administration activities in accordance with processes within the constraints of time, cost and quality.

• Must be cleared to a minimum of SC.
• Conversant with Active Directory
• Conversant with Microsoft Server suites and Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems.
• Software updated via WSUS.
• VMware and VEEAM backups.
• SQL Databases.
• Experience of maintaining software solutions on various hardware platforms.
• TCP/IP & Static Networking including Aruba Procurve switches and patching.

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