IT Systems Administrator

IT Systems Administrator Hybrid/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 2019 – 2025 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.