IT Systems Administrator Bath, England
Play Sports Network
Full Time
Bath, England
25327 - 37335 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
If you are an IT professional, looking for an exciting role in a fun and forward thinking media company, then Play Sports Network could have the perfect role for you.
We are looking for someone to join our small IT team of 5, to help maintain our systems, as well as to support the day-to-day tasks associated with IT Helpdesk. You'll be helping our IT department to support 300 staff across the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Ireland, and Japan. This is a varied IT Systems Administrator role, with plenty of opportunity to grow and develop in the position.
As IT Systems Administrator, you will be responsible for maintaining our local area network (LAN) as well as all desktop systems and infrastructure currently deployed to our environment and in use by multiple internal business units (finance, video production, product development, marketing, sales, and human resources). You'll need to have good stakeholder management skills, and be proactive with helping colleagues' IT related questions.
The Role:
- Employee workspace tools management and administration (eg. Email, messaging).
- Maintaining current servers and network availability, and planning for improvements.
- 2nd Line Support of users and receiving escalations from our Service Desk Engineer.
- Mentoring and developing skills of the IT team.
- Maintaining and updating the IT asset registers for hardware, software and devices.
- Windows/Mac OS deployments and patching via MDM solutions (eg JAMF/Intune).
- Design and lead changes to network infrastructure across two physically connected sites.
- Servers/Switches/CCTV maintenance and monitoring including backup solutions.
- Configuration and testing a wide variety of IT hardware including servers (eg. Windows/DHCP, switches and firewalls).
- Procurement and provisioning of devices, onboarding and offboarding of employees.
- Liaising with 3rd party systems service suppliers for support issues.
- Maintenance of our network, updating our firewalls and investigating issues.
- Ensuring appropriate levels of backup and redundancy is available in accordance with business resilience guidelines.
- Monitoring and managing network traffic, setup of VPN for approved users.
- Research, development and testing of new solutions such as virtualized systems.
About You:
- Proven history of corporate IT systems administration, servers, networks and desktop experience.
- Understanding of ICT fundamentals and best practices within a business environment.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking protocols including LAN / WAN / VLAN.
- Network Administration experience or relevant qualification.
- Cyber Security experience or relevant qualification.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Project Management experience.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- 25 days holiday, plus an additional 3 days over the festive closure period
- Tax free payroll schemes such as cycle-to-work and tech schemes
- Discounts on, and free GCN / GMBN clothing
- Hybrid working
- Secure, private bike parking at the office
- Open plan, modern, central Bath offices with air-con and bean-to-cup coffee machines
- Salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Options to further your professional development through apprenticeship schemes / internal training courses
Play Sports Network: Redefining Specialist Sports Media. We pride ourselves on our fun, forward-thinking culture. As one of the largest cycling media content creators in the world, we have extremely talented creative staff. All of our teams are passionate about our product, and this shows in the day-to-day culture of the office.
To read more about life at Play Sports Network, including our Diversity and Inclusion policy and company benefits, please check out our
website
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Play Sports Network
www.playsportsnetwork.com
Bath, United Kingdom
Simon Wear
Unknown / Non-Applicable
201 to 500 Employees
Company - Private
Film Production
2012
