Wintel Server Administrator

Job Details:

You will form a critical part of the Global Operations Infrastructure Team, reporting into the Infrastructure Team Lead you will be responsible for managing, maintaining and supporting customers test and production systems on the Windows platform utilised by millions of travellers around the world on a daily basis.

Job duties and responsibilities:

• Maintaining an estate of Windows Servers running mission critical server roles and customer applications.
• Systems Administration of Microsoft Windows (2003, 2008, 2012, 2016), implementation, maintenance, documentation and troubleshooting.
• Ensuring all Servers are kept up to date with the latest security patches, deployed and updated via WSUS or equivalent third party software.
• Providing 3rd line support, including out of hours support, to critical incidents.
• Participation in on-call IT support rota.
• Configuring and planning of backup, archive and restore using tools such as Veritas Netback up.
• Disaster recovery design, planning and testing.
• Support project deployments and critical incidents with out of hours working as required.
• Ensure system changes have appropriate check and balances in place to minimise the risk of service disruption.

Skills knowledge and experience:

Essential

• Strong commercial/practical background within Wintel administration
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Actice Directory Services
• Experience of managing virtualized environments, VMWARE, HyperV, Azure
• Experience of supporting high availability systems including clustered Servers and replicated systems
• Active Directory Infrastructure (including DNS/DHCP/DFS/WSUS)
• Group Policy management
• VMWare 5/6 (Vsphere)
• Patch management
• Change and Incident Management
• Disaster recovery
• LAN and WAN TCP/IP Networks.
• Fibre channel networks
• Veritas NetBackup
• MS Windows Server Administration
• VMWare Administration experience
• Experience of Microsoft Azure

Desirable

• Experience of Citrix Xenapp
• Experience of Powershell, VB.NET, c#.net or windows batch Scripting

Education and qualifications:

Essential

• A university degree in a numerate subject (eg Computer Science, Maths, Engineering, Natural Science) or relevant work experience.

Desirable

• ITIL Foundation

Personal Qualities:

• Ability to work both autonomously when required and productively within a cross-functional team environment
• Responsible, organised, logical thought process
• Positive attitude
• Team player
• Diligent, with attention to detail. Able to problem solve and find effective and timely resolutions
• Proactive
• Organised with the ability to handle multiple projects and undertake new tasks quickly
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills with a willingness to share knowledge, coach and collaborate effectively with individuals and other departments
• An enthusiasm for new technologies and their application for both business and consumers
• A natural curiosity and a passion for learning new skills. A continuous improvement mindset
• The tenacity to keep going when things get difficult, an optimistic and upbeat personal manner
• Analytical problem solver who is able to quickly & accurately identify key issues
• Approachable, adaptable and flexible and able to work on their own or as part of a team