IT Systems Administrator
Posted 1 day 13 hours ago by isbi schools
£80,000 - £100,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
Academic Jobs
London, United Kingdom
Job Description
Company Description Hampton is one of the country's leading, most successful and best resourced independent schools and has been helping boys to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations for over 460 years.
We are a lively, friendly and caring School community, in which innovative teaching is underpinned by strong shared values and complemented by outstanding pastoral care. We aspire to enable our boys not only to make sense of the world but also to want to go out and improve it. Hamptonians are expected to aspire to personal best while supporting those around them with kindness and respect.
The School's examination results and university entrance record consistently rank among the best achieved anywhere. Nearly all Hampton leavers go on to undergraduate courses at Russell Group or equivalent universities. Around 20 Hamptonians are offered places at Oxford and Cambridge annually and a significant number move on to global top 10 universities; we also support pupils who wish to study at universities in North America, some of whom secure academic and/or sporting scholarships.
Our alumni network is extremely strong and former pupils remain very committed indeed to their School, in no small part due to the exceptionally warm and mutually respectful relationships enjoyed between Hampton staff and their pupils.
Situated on a green field site in a leafy suburb of South West London, we are fortunate to have over 27 acres of playing fields within our spacious grounds and a generous investment programme ensures that pupils and staff benefit from first class facilities across all areas of School life.
These include a state of the art 3G sportsground, a large Sports Hall and The Hammond Theatre, along with an excellent library and specialist facilities for Art, Music, Science, Technology, IT and Languages and a superb Sixth Form Study and Careers Centre. The Millennium Boat House, shared with our neighbouring girls' school, Lady Eleanor Holles, enjoys a prime location on the nearby River Thames and provides the focal point for our renowned Boat Club.
The School was judged to be excellent (the highest possible recognition) across all categories by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) in May 2023. Inspectors found that Hamptonians' achievements are exceptional across academic and co curricular areas of School life and concluded that 'outstanding analytical and thinking skills' lead to academic achievements 'far and above national and worldwide averages'. The ISI team also highlighted Hamptonians' excellent personal development and concluded that 'Pupils are open minded and tolerant and have a clear sense of justice, successfully fulfilling the school's aims for them to make sense of the world, to want to make a difference for good, and to aspire to personal best while supporting those around them with kindness and respect'. A copy of the full ISI report can found on the School website and a summary booklet of the inspection team's key findings is linked here.
Position Hampton is one of the country's foremost academically selective independent schools and this is an excellent opportunity to join a vibrant and successful department in a happy, high achieving setting.
An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and detail minted IT Systems Administrator to join Hampton School's IT team. The role will be responsible for the Trust's IT systems on a day to day basis, ensuring that they are secure, reliable and that appropriate service levels are maintained. Suitable candidates should have experience of supporting systems and services in a technical capacity, reporting to management and have worked for a minimum of five years within similar roles.
The role would also be expected to assist in developing the technical road map so that it supports and aligns with The School's IT strategy. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, VPN, and supporting large scale environments (approx. 2000 users). They will also be accountable for continuously reviewing the school's systems and recommending suitable development and / or project work to the IT Systems Manager and Director of IT.
They should have hands on experience with VMware, Windows Server, MacOS management using MDM, FortiGate Firewalls, Aruba Switching and Wireless, and Veeam Backup. The successful candidate will be able to work independently, troubleshoot complex issues, and engage with stakeholders including vendors and management teams whilst working collaboratively work with the IT Systems Manager and IT Service Leads. The role requires the technical skills and expertise to deliver a range of development work in house and be able to seek and manage support from subject specialists, as required.
In addition, the role is responsible for daily checks, vulnerability reviews, and resolving system issues to maintain system integrity and availability. The role will act as a third line escalation point, while also leading small scale system projects, improvements, and technical training for other members of the IT team. Hampton is one of the country's foremost independent schools and equity, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our ethos and the School has a thriving partnerships programme.
Key Responsibilities
Experience with:
We are a lively, friendly and caring School community, in which innovative teaching is underpinned by strong shared values and complemented by outstanding pastoral care. We aspire to enable our boys not only to make sense of the world but also to want to go out and improve it. Hamptonians are expected to aspire to personal best while supporting those around them with kindness and respect.
The School's examination results and university entrance record consistently rank among the best achieved anywhere. Nearly all Hampton leavers go on to undergraduate courses at Russell Group or equivalent universities. Around 20 Hamptonians are offered places at Oxford and Cambridge annually and a significant number move on to global top 10 universities; we also support pupils who wish to study at universities in North America, some of whom secure academic and/or sporting scholarships.
Our alumni network is extremely strong and former pupils remain very committed indeed to their School, in no small part due to the exceptionally warm and mutually respectful relationships enjoyed between Hampton staff and their pupils.
Situated on a green field site in a leafy suburb of South West London, we are fortunate to have over 27 acres of playing fields within our spacious grounds and a generous investment programme ensures that pupils and staff benefit from first class facilities across all areas of School life.
These include a state of the art 3G sportsground, a large Sports Hall and The Hammond Theatre, along with an excellent library and specialist facilities for Art, Music, Science, Technology, IT and Languages and a superb Sixth Form Study and Careers Centre. The Millennium Boat House, shared with our neighbouring girls' school, Lady Eleanor Holles, enjoys a prime location on the nearby River Thames and provides the focal point for our renowned Boat Club.
The School was judged to be excellent (the highest possible recognition) across all categories by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) in May 2023. Inspectors found that Hamptonians' achievements are exceptional across academic and co curricular areas of School life and concluded that 'outstanding analytical and thinking skills' lead to academic achievements 'far and above national and worldwide averages'. The ISI team also highlighted Hamptonians' excellent personal development and concluded that 'Pupils are open minded and tolerant and have a clear sense of justice, successfully fulfilling the school's aims for them to make sense of the world, to want to make a difference for good, and to aspire to personal best while supporting those around them with kindness and respect'. A copy of the full ISI report can found on the School website and a summary booklet of the inspection team's key findings is linked here.
Position Hampton is one of the country's foremost academically selective independent schools and this is an excellent opportunity to join a vibrant and successful department in a happy, high achieving setting.
An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and detail minted IT Systems Administrator to join Hampton School's IT team. The role will be responsible for the Trust's IT systems on a day to day basis, ensuring that they are secure, reliable and that appropriate service levels are maintained. Suitable candidates should have experience of supporting systems and services in a technical capacity, reporting to management and have worked for a minimum of five years within similar roles.
The role would also be expected to assist in developing the technical road map so that it supports and aligns with The School's IT strategy. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, VPN, and supporting large scale environments (approx. 2000 users). They will also be accountable for continuously reviewing the school's systems and recommending suitable development and / or project work to the IT Systems Manager and Director of IT.
They should have hands on experience with VMware, Windows Server, MacOS management using MDM, FortiGate Firewalls, Aruba Switching and Wireless, and Veeam Backup. The successful candidate will be able to work independently, troubleshoot complex issues, and engage with stakeholders including vendors and management teams whilst working collaboratively work with the IT Systems Manager and IT Service Leads. The role requires the technical skills and expertise to deliver a range of development work in house and be able to seek and manage support from subject specialists, as required.
In addition, the role is responsible for daily checks, vulnerability reviews, and resolving system issues to maintain system integrity and availability. The role will act as a third line escalation point, while also leading small scale system projects, improvements, and technical training for other members of the IT team. Hampton is one of the country's foremost independent schools and equity, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our ethos and the School has a thriving partnerships programme.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing, maintaining and supporting the Trust's IT systems, including their integrity, security, maintenance, availability and reliability
- Develop and action maintenance schedules
- Updating the IT Service Leads of any system issues that would impact service operation, and where appropriate first and second line staff
- Troubleshooting and implementing a root fix for systems related issues • Resolving issues impacting Trust services, including liaising with third party suppliers
- Ensuring issues that are impacting critical Trust systems or causing site wide outage are resolved in a timely manner in line with the departments' standards
- Providing support on issues that have been escalated from service; and where required, implementing the fix whilst ensuring members of the service team involved are given training on how the issue was resolved
- Providing technical training to the service team so they can develop their ability to provide greater support; subsequently enabling this role to carry out more in house development • Creation and maintenance of systems documentation, and where appropriate allocating to other members of the team
- Working with the IT Service Manager to identify technical limitations in knowledge within the team and delivering technical training
- Creating monthly reports on the systems • Providing, enabling and coordinating out of hours support for scheduled and emergency scenarios.
- Ensuring systems downtime is communicated to users following prior discussion with the IT Systems Manager and Director of IT.
- Reviewing the Trust's systems and providing recommendations to the IT Systems Manager and Director of IT on suitable improvements
- Working with the IT Services team and stakeholders to appropriately specify and implement new (or changes to existing) systems and services in line with IT strategy
- Leading on developing the Trust's systems in line with legal obligations and operational needs.
- Delivering service requests and systems development in line with the departments policies and processes
- Liaising with the service team to understand and implement solutions for recurring service issues that could be resolved by further development or improvements to the Trust's systems
- Planning and implementing systems changes and project work in line with the needs of the Trust
- Working with third party suppliers to technically scope, assure and implement new systems, enhance or fix existing systems
- Delivering handover training to the IT team on any system changes or developments which will impact their day to day role
- Carrying out annual audits on the Trust's systems including cyber security; including working with third party auditors
- Regularly reporting to the IT Systems Manager, and where required Director of IT and Deputy Head, on the status of the Trust's systems and any development work; including risks, issues and opportunities
- Accountable for driving personal continued professional development, in line with the Trust's CPD model and IT requirements • Developing the departments knowledge on the school's systems through appropriate training.
Experience with:
- Developing, managing and supporting systems, services, networks, and infrastructure
- Providing IT services for a large number of users (approx. 2000), such as filtered web access, data storage, email services, networked printing backups, and various software packages
- Current IT best practice, standards, and statutory requirements
- Virtual platforms including servers, storage and backups
- Multiple versions of Windows Server
- Supporting SQL servers
- Management information systems
- Active Directory setups
- Email platforms, both local and cloud based
- Managing active Directory network services such as DHCP, DNS, LDAP, 802.1x, wireless, and VPN
- Firewall and filtering
- Windows and Apple Mac systems, software and services
- Analyse issues, make informed judgments, take appropriate action and accept responsibility for results . click apply for full job details