Systems Manager (3-month FTC)

Bristol

53k-55k p.a

Our client, a growing marketing agency has an exciting opportunity for a Systems Manager to join their amazing team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure: You’ll manage IT services and infrastructure.
• Reports: You’ll provide regular reports to the Operations Director on the environmental performance, health, and state of the IT infrastructure.
• Assessments: You’ll evaluate assigned projects, assess solutions for technical/business suitability, and present proposals.
• Improvements: You’ll monitor our IT infrastructure and recommend action to improve efficiency, performance, or resolve issues.
• Deployment: You’ll manage deployment and onward software maintenance of workstations, servers and services.
• Security: You’ll implement best-practice security across all IT operations.
• Documentation: You’ll maintain documentation on IT infrastructure and process.
• Support: You’ll aid the IT Support Analyst with first-line support.
• Training: You’ll induct and train staff on IT systems as needed.
• Business resilience: You’ll maximise the availability of IT infrastructure.
• Business continuity: You’ll ensure we have adequate provision and documentation to enact business continuity plans in relation to IT.
• Business compliance: You’ll ensure IT compliance with licensing, auditing and legal requirements, environmental targets and company policies.
• Insights: You’ll identify trends, expenditure and strategy in the
• agency's use of IT services and infrastructure to aid business planning.
• Purchasing: You’ll manage IT purchasing in line with our Local and
• Environmental Purchasing Policy and budget.

Key skills/experience:

• Operating Systems: You’ll have extensive management skills on latest macOS, iOS/iPadOS, Windows, Windows Server and Linux/Unix.
• Scripting: You’ll have competent scripting skills in both macOS and Windows.
• Cloud services: You’ll be competent at managing a heterogenous cloud-based estate of services.
• Third-party services: You’ll be competent at integrating third-party services into Microsoft 365.
• Deployment systems: You’ll have good competency with an MDM-based deployment and management system (ideally Jamf Pro/Intune)
• Hardware: You’ll be familiar with a range of hardware platforms, including Ruckus switches and wireless access points and their cloud-based administration platform; Sophos XG firewall products and Dell servers with MD-series SAN.
• Support ISO accreditation such as Security accreditation (45001) and protocols
• SAAS some knowledge of internal networks/not server as Cloud based
• VPN