Hamilton Barnes 🌳
Principal Systems Administrator
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🚀 Principal Systems Administrator
📍 Hybrid Working | Compressed Working Week
💷 £56,300 - £84,500 + Bonus + Private Healthcare
What if your weekend started every Friday?
I'm recruiting on behalf of a global leader in defence and advanced technology, who are looking for an experienced Principal Systems Administrator to join their enterprise infrastructure team.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an organisation delivering technology that supports some of the UK's most critical programmes, while enjoying a genuine work-life balance through a compressed working week, giving you every Friday off.
As the technical lead within the team, you'll play a key role in designing, supporting and evolving secure enterprise infrastructure, providing technical leadership across complex projects and acting as the go-to expert for systems administration.
The Role
You'll be responsible for:
- Providing technical leadership and subject matter expertise across enterprise infrastructure
- Leading systems administration activities on complex projects and business-critical programmes
- Installing, configuring, administering and troubleshooting Windows, Linux and virtualised environments
- Supporting VMware, Citrix, cloud platforms and enterprise storage infrastructure
- Driving continuous improvements across infrastructure, availability and performance
- Supporting major upgrades, deployments and technology refresh projects
- Working closely with vendors to resolve complex technical issues and implement new solutions
- Maintaining secure, highly available systems in line with ISO20000 and ISO27001 standards
- Participating in a 24/7 on-call rota supporting planned and emergency changes
- Mentoring engineers and influencing technical decisions across the wider infrastructure function
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Technology
- VMware vSphere 8+
- Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop / NetScaler
- Microsoft Windows Server 2019/2022
- Microsoft Exchange & Microsoft 365
- Azure & AWS
- Active Directory & Federated Trusts
- MS SQL Server
- Linux & Ansible
- Dell & NetApp Fibre Channel Storage
- DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP & MPLS
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What's on Offer?
- £56,300 - £84,500 salary
- Performance bonus
- Compressed working week with every Friday off
- Flexible hybrid working
- Private healthcare
- Excellent pension
- Ongoing technical training and development
- The opportunity to influence architecture and technical direction
- Long-term career progression within a globally recognised defence and technology organisation
This opportunity would suit experienced Principal Systems Administrators, Senior Systems Administrators, Lead Infrastructure Engineers, Platform Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers or Senior Systems Engineers looking to step into a highly technical leadership position.
Please note: Due to the nature of the projects, applicants must be eligible for SC Clearance, which requires sole UK nationality.
If you'd like to find out more, apply today or send me a direct message for a confidential conversation.
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