Senior Windows Server Administrator

Salary: £50,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong Windows Server experience
• Excellent troubleshooting ability
• Confidence investigating issues using tools such as event logs
• Understanding of Active Directory, Group Policy, replication, certificates, and wider infrastructure dependencies
• Experience across any of the following would be useful: VMware, Hyper-V or Azure Local, Citrix, SCCM / MECM, Exchange, Thycotic, Zabbix or other enterprise monitoring tools, Agile working environments
• Ability to travel within Europe without restriction when required

Responsibilities:

• Lead troubleshooting across Windows Server environments
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex infrastructure issues
• Support projects involving virtualisation and hyper-converged infrastructure
• Contribute to the move from VMware towards Azure Local
• Work across technologies including server, storage, file, email and collaboration systems
• Help define technical priorities, improvements and roadmap activity
• Mentor other IT Administrators within the team
• Support security, resilience, capacity and regulatory requirements
• Research new technologies and recommend practical, cost-effective solutions

Technologies:

• Active Directory
• Azure
• Citrix
• Hyper-V
• Support
• Security
• VMware
• Windows
• Zabbix
• Cloud
• LESS

More:

We are a global technology business offering a Senior Windows Server Administrator role based in Southampton on an office-based 12 month fixed-term contract. You will join a sizeable, established technology environment and work on current projects including a move from VMware towards Azure Local, alongside wider infrastructure integration work across newly acquired sites. We offer a benefits package including up to 26 days holiday plus bank holidays, additional birthday and work anniversary celebration days after probation, a 5% employer pension contribution, employee share purchase scheme with discounted shares, 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 34 week of 2026