Systems Administrator (MS Endpoint)

£38K- £45K + Great Pension & Benefits

Manchester/Hybrid

A Systems Administrator with Endpoint experience is require for our public sector organisation. The successful candidate will use their technical expertise to manage a diverse desktop environment. The role includes overseeing various applications supporting diverse functions. Collaborating closely with Infrastructure teams and internal departments, you'll ensure the security, compliance, and efficiency of the managed estate. Your contributions will be crucial to installing, maintaining, and optimizing desktop infrastructure systems to meet operational requirements and service standards.

Key responsibilities, accountabilities and duties-

• Installs and tests new versions of system software.
• Investigates potential and actual service problems and recommends solutions with respect to the desktop estate.
• Audits managed desktop delivery functions to ensure understanding and adherence to documented policy and procedures.
• Collects performance data to monitor desktop system efficiency against published service level agreements and gathers performance data and statistics on the managed desktop estate to enable valid and reliable conclusions to be drawn about system usage and failure rates.
• Reviews desktop operating system releases, upgrades, security patches and fixes available from system software suppliers.
• Maintains awareness of existing and emerging desktop software and hardware solutions and develops upgrade plans.
• In the event of desktop system software failure, collects critical information, adhering to agreed procedures.

Experience required-

• Experience with desktop administration and support within a large and complex organisation.
• Very knowledgeable about application packaging and delivery in both a Windows and MacOS environment.
• Demonstrable experience of contributing to the delivery of an automated operating system and desktop application deployment.
• Experience of Scripting, automation, SCCM, Group Policy, endpoint protection and patching.
• Knowledgeable about software packaging tools, eg AdminStudio.
• Experience of using Intune and other endpoint management tools to deliver a seamless desktop user experience.
• Knowledge of emerging trends with respect to application packing and endpoint management solutions.

Desirable qualifications:

• ITIL V4, Intune SCCM certification, Certified Microsoft Endpoint Administrator.