What you’ll have

You’ll have at least five years’ experience supporting systems infrastructure within an enterprise, managed services or outsourced IT environment.

• Relevant certifications across systems engineering, virtualisation, storage, backup, identity, security or automation, supported by an ITIL Foundation or equivalent service-management qualification where appropriate.
• Strong operational knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy and core datacentre services
• Strong technical knowledge of on-premises and datacentre services, including server platforms, virtualisation, storage, backup, identity and core infrastructure technologies.
• Proven experience supporting Windows and/or Linux server environments, covering configuration, troubleshooting, patching, hardening and lifecycle management.
• Experience operating enterprise virtualisation, storage, backup and recovery platforms, with a sound understanding of availability, capacity, resilience and recovery requirements.
• Strong diagnostic capability across compute, storage, networking, backup, identity and application dependency layers, including complex and high-impact service issues.
• Experience working within an ITIL-aligned managed service environment across incident, problem, change, service request and knowledge-management processes.
• Ability to use observability, monitoring and service data to assess platform health, identify risk, improve alert quality and reduce recurring operational noise.
• Experience creating automation and scripts using appropriate technologies, such as PowerShell, Bash, Python or vendor tooling, to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.
• Ability to act as a senior escalation point, produce clear operational documentation, guide customers and engineering teams, manage supplier escalations, and support service onboarding and operational readiness.

What we offer

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.

We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life. In addition to a Competitive Salary, here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package:

• Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.
• Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance. We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can.
• A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes, an employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more……

Diversity and Inclusion

At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement. If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we’re looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience. We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.