Windows System Administrator

Job description

Introduction
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:
· Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
· Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year; no one off annual reviews here
· A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
· Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
· A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
· Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
· Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, 1 month paid paternity leave, 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
· More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday, a gym discount scheme, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future

Your Role and Responsibilities

·  Partner with some of the best minds in the industry and apply your technical know-how to manage and operate IT hardware software communications and/or application solutions
·  You’ll implement deliver and support expertly engineered IT services and products that meet worldwide clients’ needs
·  You'll be responsible for delivering new or changed services following the change process and maintenance of regulatory legal and professional standards
·  You'll also monitor the performance of systems and services, configure and secure networks including LAN and WAN across public networks and virtual private networks
·  Monitoring and administering Windows operating system
·  Work on L2 and L3 incidents and report progress
·  Update systems with progress on incident
·  Work with third parties to resolve incidents
·  Update config management and knowledge management databases
·  Support path to live release management

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Expert knowledge and use of Microsoft Windows and VMWare
·  Strong knowledge of implementing and troubleshooting, Active Directory, Exchange, Intune, Office 365, Microsoft SQL, and other Microsoft based technologies
·  Solid knowledge of Azure and/or AWS Cloud technologies As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
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