RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
Senior Systems Administrator
New Malden – 3 days per week onsite
£57,700 – £86,500 DOE
Clearance: SC (eligible for DV)
The Opportunity
This is more than just a job; it’s a mission.
What is a Senior System Administrator?
Senior System Administrators support and administer infrastructure deployments. The role will include eliciting infrastructure requirements and designing and implementing solutions using Infrastructure as Code and Automation technologies. It also includes the coaching and mentoring of more junior engineers in these processes, to help the team grow in confidence and experience.
Responsibilities
Senior System Administrators work as part of a wider team assigned to support the business delivery functions. You will be expected to expand your own skillset into relevant technologies, building proficiency in a number of key areas and following through by delivering good quality documentation and solutions to the customer.
It is important that Senior System Administrators are able to take on challenging tasking, breaking down complex tasks into understandable steps, maintaining good communication with the rest of the team and escalating when required. Senior Engineers will also need to be able to identify and delegate some tasking to more junior engineers where appropriate. Including coaching and mentoring and running demonstrations or training sessions for other engineers.
Senior System Administrators are expected to keep abreast of new technologies within the key
technology areas, tracking trends in tools, techniques and procedures. They are expected to identify
potential research and development opportunities and assist in drafting business cases for potential new projects.
Key Responsibilities Of The Role Include
tasking. Coaching and mentoring more junior engineers in the tools, techniques and procedures being used to complete the task;
Skills Overview
Typical Experience and/or Qualifications:
Senior System Administrators have a variety of skills and will often need to adapt to meet the needs of the project. This provides some of the typical skills that a Senior System Administrator may have but it by no means exhaustive
relevant experience;
environments, from Windows Server 2016 onwards;
Kubernetes;
In addition the following skills are highly desirable but not essential:
including CentOS and Ubuntu;
If you don’t meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You might be exactly who we’re looking for – either for this role or another opportunity at Northrop Grumman UK.
Security Clearance
Due to the nature of our work, you must be a UK citizen and able to gain and maintain the required UK Government security clearance. Our recruitment team will guide you through the process: talentenquiries@uk.ngc.com
Benefits
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