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Lead Systems Administrator (Networking)

Bathpool, Somerset
3 weeks ago
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Lead System Administrator - up to £47,000- Hybrid working (Taunton Based)

The Opportunity

Yolk Recruitment Public Sector & Not-for-Profit team are working with a valuable civil service organisation that is relatively unknown. Their specialised focus leads to very unique roles with a large scope for personal learning and development.

We are supporting them to recruit a Lead System Administrator who has solid experience administering IT systems across Firewalls, Load Balancers, VPN's, wireless networks and LAN Infrastructure.

This role will require Developed Vetting so the successful candidate will need to be a British National.

What the Lead System Administrator will be doing.

You will be leading on the design, configuration and deployment of networking and security solutions, providing support and administration for a variety of Technical Systems.

Lead technical support and system administration for a multi-cloud environment (GCP, AWS and Azure)
Provide technical support for VPN's, LAN's, Load Balancing, and Firewalls
Conduct routine monitoring and analysis, including audit log evaluation and usage report evaluation across site, system and storage.
Provide expertise and technical input to project work

What the successful Lead System Administrator will bring to the team
You will have strong technical engineering experience, working within Technical Systems environments, primarily with Firewalls, Load balancers, VPNs, wireless networks and LAN infrastructure.

Expertise of system administration in a Multi-Cloud environment, having used GCP, Azure and AWS
Expertise in Firewall and Fortinet Administration
Demonstrable experience leading in a systems admin setting

Here's What You'll Get in Return

Salary of up to £47,000
Pension scheme with employer contributions up to 28%
5 days annual leave per year, increasing to 31.5 days after 5 years' service
Minimum of 5 days learning and development to each employee per year
Professional membership subscriptions, mentoring, and sector specific learning available to all
Flexible working hours scheme with up to two days per month Flexi leave, paid special leave, career breaks, and unpaid leave

Think this one's for you
If you think this Lead System Administrator opportunity is for you then please apply online.

Yolk Public Sector & Not-for-Profit team works with organisations across the UK to fulfil their recruitment needs and to achieve their D&I objectives. We recruit temporary, contract and permanent hires for 1 off specialist needs or for volume campaigns. We support our applicants to navigate the public sector recruitment processes and secure their dream jobs.

Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our workforce. We employ the best people for the job at hand and actively encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. We champion and celebrate diversity at Yolk allowing our team to bring their whole selves to work

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