Systems Administrator

Leeds College of Building relies on robust systems to deliver outstanding learning. We’re looking for a Systems Administrator to maintain, evolve, and secure our infrastructure to support our staff and students. This role also involves partnering on projects that keep the College at the forefront of construction education.

Working within our growing IT Team and reporting to the Digital Support Manager, you’ll combine handson support with proactive system administration across onpremises and cloud environments. You can expect from this role, varied work from daily monitoring and backups to deployments, documentation, and project delivery.-on support with proactive system administration across on-prem

Responsibilities will include:

• Performing routine network maintenance, implementing security measures, managing user accounts, and ensuringeffective backups and DR testing.

• Providing comprehensive support for Microsoft 365, including advanced troubleshooting, configuration, and user training.

• Testing, deploying, and documenting new software/hardware; setting up and maintaining onsite and cloud-hosted servers.

• Delivering frontline support to staff and students; take responsibility of incidents from first contact through to resolution and assist colleagues with escalations.

• Proactively monitoring systems (network, backups, security alerts) and managing IT assets and updates across server and client endpoints.

• You may occasionally work outside core hours for updates or problem resolution and across College sites when required.

The successful candidate will possess:

• Experience supporting Windows 11 and Windows Server, networking technologies, Active Directory, and Microsoft cloud administration (365, Entra, Intune).

• A logical, problem-solving approach and PowerShell scripting capability.

• A Degree in an IT-related discipline or equivalent industry certifications.

• Level 2 Maths and English Qualifications

Desirable:Experience in an educational setting and skills including; training colleagues; virtualisation; project management; software deployment; cyber security; backups & disaster recovery; cloudbased asset management.-based asset management., * Active Directory (Line)

• Administrative Roles (Administration)
• Communication Skills (Key)
• Information Technology Education
• Infrastructure Management
• Maintenance Activities
• Microsoft Windows OS (Win)
• Networking Skills (Wan)
• Problem Solving (Process)
• Windows Server Administration (Tcp)

£32,006 - £33,850 per annum

We offer an excellent pension scheme, family friendly policies, opportunities for training and development and an employee discount scheme.

Hours: 37 Hours per week, In return, we offer a warm and welcoming college with an excellent benefits package that includes:

• A 25-day annual leave entitlement, plus 8 Bank Holidays and 10 college closure days.

• A well-respected pension scheme (West Yorkshire Pension Fund with an above average employer contribution)

• Free parking at all our College sites (on a first come first served basis)

• Family friendly policies and opportunities for flexible working

• Superb opportunities for training and development