System Administration

System Administration

Salary:                      £45,000 - £55,000 - depending on experience 

Location:                 Stevenage / Bolton / Bristol

Headline Benefits: A bonus of up to £2,500, Paid Overtime, Strong pension, 25 days annual leave with the option to accrue 15 additional days flexi leave, enhanced parental leave.

We’re working with an award-winning, world-leading, engineering organisation, with sites across Europe, that has an exciting opportunity for a Solution Integration Engineer who will join part of an existing team that has subject matter expert-level knowledge in our current enterprise application toolset, deployment methods and support service.

System Administrationrole:

The Information Systems Engineering team are taking a transformative step to build a fast-paced development environment for installations and configuration of application-based solutions. This new environment aims to give internal IT teams and business customers the ability to initiate and deliver projects with greater efficiency and leverage automation capability to spin up the instances and the subsequent playbooks for application deployments.

We are looking for someone with the skillset and approach to be able to leverage the existing team’s experience to adapt it to our new automation capability, as well as being the focal point for supporting end users with project instances and application-related incidents within the development environment.

This new development environment will also require us to form a service in close partnership with our department’s Infrastructure Operations team to inform better approaches in the production landscape.

System Administration:

• Strong understanding of application deployment practices, utilising Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code practices.


• Proactivity to maintain a service in line with the production environment baseline and security compliance standards.


• Good understanding of monitoring and logging tools to ensure continuity of service and expertise in security best practices for configuring and maintaining enterprise and desktop applications.


• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills to analyse complex problems and devise effective solutions.


• Excellent customer service, teamwork and stakeholder management skills


• Someone who can work locally and internationally to promote innovation and improvement.

The business are firm believers in offering all staff the best possible platform to succeed, providing support for career development as well as personal assistance. They hold numerous awards on the back of this work and have a range of employee networks and internal communities that include Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Gender Equality, Neurodiversity, Pride, Ethnic Diversity and many more. They really care about their staff and are passionate about what they do and why they do it.

Their order book stretches for many years, and they have healthy profits and a range of new projects in place. They’re stable with steady controlled growth, offer dynamic working, and fantastic opportunities to grow and develop your career further.

Cirrus Selection offers the services of an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and the services of an Employment Business for contract recruitment.

Rules onsite require British Citizenship. Dual nationals can apply for this position, and you will be required to undergo UK Security Clearance.