Senior Systems Engineer – South West London - £65,000
A highly successful SME retail business with offices based in South West London are looking for a personable Senior Systems Engineer to join them. As the Senior IT Engineer, you will be responsible for providing comprehensive technical support to end-users, maintaining, and administering servers and systems and managing network infrastructure, both on-prem and in the Cloud. This is a brilliant opportunity to join a passionate, dynamic business in a broad and varied role.
Key Responsibilities of this Systems Engineer role will include end user tech support; troubleshooting hardware and software issues on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices as well as installing and configuring, and maintaining operating systems, software applications, and peripheral devices locally and via Intune/Autopilot. You will also work across server administration; managing on-prem Hyper-V and VMware clusters and Azure VMs (Virtual Machines) and monitoring server performance, security, and backups to ensure data integrity and availability. In addition you will work across application administration and network management.
The ideal candidate for this Systems Engineer role will have experience in technical support, server administration, and network management in a commercial environment. You will have proven experience with Windows server environments including on-prem virtualisation and Cloud and strong knowledge of network protocols, routing, and switching across multiple sites and in the Cloud.
Key skills required:
Excellent troubleshooting & problem-solving abilities.
A love of everything “tech” and a strong drive to perfect how technology is implemented using best practices.
Strong understanding of cybersecurity and practices.
Experience of managing and maintaining virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V).
Experience of maintaining a hybrid environment with Active Directory, Entra ID, M365 and Azure.
Experience of managing and maintaining networks across multiple sites and in the Cloud
Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., PowerShell, Python) is a plus.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
The salary on offer for this role is up to £65,000 plus benefits including 25 days holiday, bonus, contributory pension scheme.