IT Senior Systems Administrator Job Middlesbrough area,England UK,IT/Tech

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 (Power Shell) 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