Lead Systems Administrator

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 251608**Salary**:

- £43,889 - £46,483- Your total reward package is potentially worth up to £57,920.74 annually, which includes basic salary and employer pension contributions.**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- UKHO - Technology**Type of role**:

- Digital
- Information Technology**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 3Contents

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Location
- Somerset, South WestAbout the job

**Job summary**:
We’re seeking talented **Lead Systems Administrators** to come and join our amazing technology division here at the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO).

These are really exciting career opportunities where you will have the chance to support, develop, improve and maintain our technical systems and platforms including **3rd Line Support, servers, storage, networks and cloud technologies**.

At UKHO flexible working is our default: we balance the freedom to choose how we work with our responsibility to meet business need, We manage through trust and measure performance on outcomes, not presence. You will benefit from amazing career development opportunities, a great company benefits package and a friendly, collaborative and supportive working team and environment.

The role will be contractually based at our office in Taunton. Due to the nature of the role you will need to come into the office as needed which may become at least 1 day a week and you'll **ideally be within a 1.5 hour commute of our office based at TA1 2DN.**

Watch our video to find out more about working for the UKHO:
**Job description**:
**Person specification**:
Your primary responsibilities would include oversight of and hands on configuring, monitoring, improving, and troubleshooting the UKHO technical environment on an ongoing basis as well as designing and implementing business improvements through the use and development of platforms, tools and systems.

This position is also responsible for the development and maintenance of policies and procedures relating to operation and support of the technology environment covering architecture, change management, backup/restore, audit, governance and, in conjunction with the other UKHO Technical Operations Teams the maintenance of access controls and security configuration.

Person specification, skills and experience required:

- You should also possess the following attributes:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, acting with professionalism at all times
- Ability to understand and analyse complex business requirements.
- Experience in future planning and technology roadmaps.
- Able to manage own workload and time efficiently. Uses initiative and ability to work unsupervised and understands the need to plan in advance and think through the potential complications. Identifies appropriate solutions to problems and acts accordingly.
- Able to technically lead and guide team members both technically and strategically.
- Be able to analyse complex business requirements, propose possible solutions and make recommendations.
- Experience of making decisions at the appropriate time, taking into account the needs of the situation, priorities, constraints and the availability of necessary information.
- Have experience of leadership and staff development in matrix management environments, in a technical/support team environment). Experience of directing others to undertake tasks.
- Experience of checking progress against targets, reporting as necessary and taking action to resolve exceptions.

**Pay**

Further information can be found in the attached Document “Additional Pay Information”.**SC - non reserved**

This is a Ministry of Defence non-reserved post and although open to UK, British Commonwealth and European Economic Area nationals, successful applicants will require a security clearance (SC) and therefore need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 12 consecutive months within the last 5 years.

**Nationality Statement**

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Broad technical experience of implementing of wide variety of Server, Storage or Networking technologies at an architecture, design and technical expert level.
- Be able to analyse complex business requirements, propose possible solutions and make recommendations.
- Broad experience working with Cloud technologies, Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.**How to apply**:
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