About the role

Digital Transformation is at the heart of our recently released 10-year Strategy, and we have the ambition to expand our technology capabilities, to enable innovation, and deliver better services for our students and staff. This is an exciting time in Digital Services as we transform with pace and agility, to help the University achieve its vision to provide inspiring education and research, working in partnership with our communities to become a truly inclusive university.

Our established Infrastructure and Operations Team are looking to recruit a Systems Administrator (Windows Services). You will work closely with the Infrastructure team, and will be responsible for monitoring, managing, and maintaining the following; Active Directory (providing authentication for University-wide services), Microsoft Exchange (email, calendaring and collaboration), web access for off-campus usage, automated patching, system monitoring based on System Centre, virtual infrastructure based on VMware and day-to-day administration across some 700 physical and virtual Windows servers running across multiple Domains, as well as other business systems running critical applications.

You will also be expected to contribute to the full range of work undertaken by the Infrastructure and Operations team.

About you

As our ideal candidate, you will be degree educated in a technical discipline (or hold a degree in a non-technical discipline combined with substantial additional experience directly relevant to this role).

Extensive hands-on experience (backed by a strong technical administration skills) in order to manage and maintain the University's Windows server estate, as well as an excellent working knowledge and experience in the use of Azure administration, Windows Server, Exchange, Active Directory, System Centre Operations Manager, Office 365, PowerShell, and VMware.

You will possess excellent communication skills and be a self-starter that is able to work on your own using your own initiative as well as collaboratively with Senior Technical colleagues, Customers and Suppliers.

Additional information

Informal enquiries are welcomed and should be directed to Rakesh Sahins at [email protected].

Applications for job share will be considered.

The University of Leicester has been changing the world, and changing people’s lives, for 100 years. When you join us, you’ll become part of a community of Citizens of Change, which includes not only our staff and our current students but also thousands of Leicester graduates around the world.

As a diverse and forward-thinking employer, we embed the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do. That includes not just our core missions of teaching and research, but also our support for staff, students and our local community.

We’re committed to the wellbeing of all our staff and to the sustainability of our environment, on our campus and beyond. We offer a competitive salary package, excellent pension scheme and a generous annual leave allowance, along with opportunities to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.

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Systems Administrator (Windows Services)

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