Azure System Administrator

Senior System Administrator

Azure – Gloucester – Hybrid (2 days in office per week) – Up to £60k

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Birthday day off
• Holiday carry over
• Excellent pension scheme
• Healthcare and dental
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Income protection and more

We are looking for an experienced system administrator to join a team in Gloucester. This senior role is heavily focused on hands‑on work rather than leadership. You will have the support of senior leadership and the freedom to contribute to project work and the technical direction of the business. The right candidate will not be afraid to make recommendations for better approaches, keeping best practice and documenting solutions to boost team efficiency.

• Manage a hybrid environment – Azure and Hyper‑V
• Implement IAM solutions – Active Directory and Entra ; apply Zero Trust principles, conditional access, and MFA
• Coordinate with third‑party support – MSP and SOC
• Maintain cybersecurity and secure high‑performance environments
• Ensure regulatory compliance – GDPR, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials+
• Oversee DR and backup processes
• Document best practices, future‑proof standards, and maintain a knowledge base
• Provide a small amount of on‑call support, compensated as time off in lieu (no extra weekly hours)

• Microsoft Azure system administration
• Azure VM – scalable and secure solutions, VNet design
• Vendor management
• Virtualisation expertise
• Windows Server administration
• Active Directory, Entra , group policy, and configuration
• Cloudflare
• DNS, DHCP, VPN
• Power Shell

• Azure certifications
• Cloudflare certifications
• ITIL V3 or V4 certification

This is an urgent role with interviews to be held as soon as possible. We are looking for the right candidate, so notice periods can be considered if this role sounds like a good fit.

To apply, please reference AR102975.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.