Senior Windows Server Administrator
Salary: £70,000 - 70,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong Windows Server experience
- Excellent troubleshooting ability
- Confidence investigating issues properly using tools such as event logs
- Understanding of Active Directory, Group Policy, replication, certificates and wider infrastructure dependencies
- Experience across one or more of the following would be useful: VMware, Hyper-V or Azure Local
- Experience across one or more of the following would be useful: Citrix, SCCM / MECM, Exchange, Thycotic, Zabbix or other enterprise monitoring tools
- Experience working in agile environments would be useful
- Ability to travel within Europe without restriction when required
- Lead troubleshooting across Windows Server environments
- Act as our senior escalation point for complex infrastructure issues
- Support projects involving virtualisation and hyper-converged infrastructure
- Contribute to our move from VMware towards Azure Local
- Work across server, storage, file, email and collaboration systems
- Help define technical priorities, improvements and roadmap activity
- Mentor other IT Administrators within our team
- Support security, resilience, capacity and regulatory requirements
- Research new technologies and recommend practical, cost-effective solutions
- Active Directory
- Azure
- Citrix
- Hyper-V
- Support
- Security
- VMware
- Windows
- Zabbix
- Cloud
- LESS
- Ruby
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We are a global technology business with a sizeable, established technology environment. We are hiring a Senior Windows Server Administrator to be our go-to escalation point for complex Wintel infrastructure issues. This is a hands-on, office-based role in Southampton, working on deep technical troubleshooting rather than routine runbook tasks. Current work includes a move from VMware towards Azure Local, alongside wider infrastructure integration across newly acquired sites. We offer a strong benefits package including up to 26 days holiday plus bank holidays, additional birthday and work anniversary days after probation, a 5% employer pension contribution, employee share purchase scheme, private medical cover, healthcare cash plan, Digital GP access, life assurance, income protection and critical illness cover. The interview process is two stages: an initial 30-45 minute Teams call, followed by an onsite interview in Southampton.
last updated 42 week of 2026