IT Systems AdministratorHybrid/Edinburgh (infrequent visits to other sites)Up to £45,000 We are looking for a Systems Administrator who can implement, monitor, and support highly available IT solutions across multiple sites. As well as the day to day maintenance, you ll be influencing the design and delivery of the on-premise and cloud solutions for all corporate staff. You will be leading numerous projects, ranging from small scale implementations to new business-wide processes. Key responsibilities:
Support our virtualised server and desktop environment, across both VMWare vSphere and Microsoft Azure
Maintain our on-premises hardware across multiple UK offices, primarily storage and compute
Manage both our on-premises AD environment and our Entra tenant
Provision and update certificates and DNS for our public domains
Act as an escalation point for the internal IT team, owning critical or high-level tickets, maintaining excellent communication with stakeholders throughout
Have a heavy focus on security, dealing with incidents promptly and suggesting and implementing improvements where possible
Participate in on-call cover, with the ability to lead a DR response in the event of an emergency
Key Skills: You should have a background maintaining infrastructure and services that are utilised by a wide-ranging set of teams all of which have different needs and requirements.
Experience working with a virtualised server environment providing core functions, with VMWare vSphere and Microsoft Azure experience desirable
Windows Server experience, including centralised enterprise administration, with MCM/SCCM knowledge desirable
Hands on administration of datacentre hardware, primarily enterprise storage and compute
Strong understanding of security, disaster recovery, and data protection concepts
Experience doing end-to-end documenting of solutions, both for internal technical teams and end users
Strong communication skills with the confidence to connect with multiple stakeholders
If you are keen then APPLY NOW. Bright Purple is an equal opportunities employer: we are proud to work with clients who share our values of diversity and inclusion in our industry.
