Systems Administrator - Windows / Active Directory / VMWare

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Job title: Systems Administrator (Windows/Active Directory/VMWare)

Location: Feltham, West London

Salary: Up to £43,000 plus £2k on call allowance, plus bonus and benefits

Hours: Full time, Permanent

Headquartered in West London, the company, a market leader in the betting and gaming sector, is seeking an experienced Systems Administrator with solid Windows management skills to provide analysis, capacity planning and support in order to maintain high levels of system and service availability.

Working in their Feltham based Infrastructure team, you will be primarily responsible for the management and maintenance of the server estate as well as having significant input into planning and deploying future upgrades and projects. They are currently migrating all systems to a new domain as well as re-architecting our network and server platforms so the need to be engaged in the process from the very start is essential.

Some travel to their Manchester office and Data Centres (London based) will be required.

Key Responsibilities:

* System administration of both corporate and production systems including software, infrastructure and server hardware (Servers, Blade Systems & SAN).

* Maintaining, installing and decommissioning server hardware and software components, ensuring new systems being built are in accordance with standards and operational requirements.

* Perform on-going performance tuning, hardware upgrades and optimization as required.

* Installation, configuration and maintenance of network services such as: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and File services.

* Server functions such as, Login Scripts, Group Policy Objects, Directory Structure, Shares and File Security.

* Management of AD users, groups, and configuration of Active Directory security.

* Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.

Key Requirements:

* Extensive experience of managing and maintaining an enterprise level server and storage platform of at least 100 Microsoft server nodes.

* Advanced understanding of MS Server Operating Systems (Windows 2012 R2 preferably), DNS, DHCP and AD including practical experience of implementing and troubleshooting to enterprise-admin level.

* Extensive experience supporting Microsoft technologies such as Exchange, SQL Server and Group Policy Objects.

* Solid experience of managing and maintaining a multi-site, multi-node VMware VSphere environment including installation, configuration, upgrades, performance tuning and fault finding.

* Recent experience in Domain and Server migration to new platforms.

* Recent experience installing, configuring and configuring VEEAM Enterprise in a VMWare environment.

* Knowledge and experience of Disaster Recovery planning.

* Good knowledge of system monitoring.

* Driving licence is essential.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

* Good knowledge of networking and basic troubleshooting

* Exposure to HP Blade and SAN hardware

* Management of Patching and Anti-Virus software

The company employs more than 550 people across three offices in the UK and is supported by its global gaming parent company, which employs 8,000 people in more than 50 countries on six continents. You will receive first class training, support and career development opportunities along with a very competitive salary, additional benefits and company bonus.

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Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Software Administrator, Systems Developer, Systems Support, Software Support, 3rd Line Support, Systems Administrator, Systems Lead, Lead Systems Administrator, Lead Systems Support, Systems Architect, Software Architect will also be considered for this role.