279 System Administrator jobs in the United Kingdom

System Administrator – Fintech – Onsite in Manchester

Location: Manchester (Full-time, Onsite 5 days)

Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Employment Type: Permanent, Full-time

We’re hiring a System Administrator to join a fast-growing fintech company based in Manchester. This is a great opportunity for someone early in their IT career who’s looking to build hands-on experience across IT systems, hardware, and SaaS management in a dynamic environment.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Administering and supporting Office 365 (email, user accounts, licensing, etc.)
• Setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting laptops and desktop hardware
• Handling user onboarding/offboarding including account creation, password resets, and permissions
• Managing and supporting SaaS applications used across the business
• Maintaining inventory and handling procurement of IT hardware
• Ensuring smooth day-to-day operation of IT systems and responding to support tickets
• Assisting with basic IT security tasks and best practices (nice to have)

What We’re Looking For:

• Some hands-on experience or knowledge of Office 365 administration
• Familiarity with laptop setup, troubleshooting, and hardware support
• Interest in system administration, user management, and IT operations
• Ability to follow documented processes and adapt to a fast-paced tech environment
• A proactive attitude and willingness to learn on the job

Nice to Have:

• Understanding of basic IT security principles
• Experience with SaaS application administration

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Job Summary

A unique opportunity to join and grow within a leading technology provider, serving the financial services sector. You will be the client's first point of contact, responding to service requests and incidents, where appropriate escalating to the relevant teams. Your role's primary focus will be providing remote support to our clients. This position requires a high le.

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ServiceNow System Administrator with experience working in an ITSM environment is sought on a fully remote contract basis by a global financial technology leader.

Working with international retailers to deliver cutting-edge payment solutions this ServiceNow System Admin will join a newly formed ServiceNow service management central service offering excellent project work and contract longevity.

This ServiceNow System Administrator should have most of the following key skills:

- At least a year's ServiceNow system admin experience ideally gained in a ITSM environment
- Hands-on experience configuring core ITSM modules (Incident, Change, Request, CMDB).
- Solid understanding of ServiceNow architecture and scripting
- Experience integrating ServiceNow with other platforms using REST/SOAP APIs.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Whilst the max day rate on offer is £260 the contract is a minimum of 12 months (with high probability of extension), fully remote and is outside of IR35.

ServiceNow System Administrator

UK (fully remote)
£50- 60 per day outside of IR35
12 months with extension potential

ServiceNow System Administrator with experience working in an ITSM environment is sought on a fully remote contract basis by a global financial technology leader.

Working with international retailers to deliver cutting-edge payment solutions this ServiceNow System Admin will join a newly formed ServiceNow service management central service offering excellent project work and contract longevity.

This ServiceNow System Administrator should have most of the following key skills:

- At least a year's ServiceNow system admin experience ideally gained in a ITSM environment
- Hands-on experience configuring core ITSM modules (Incident, Change, Request, CMDB).
- Solid understanding of ServiceNow architecture and scripting
- Experience integrating ServiceNow with other platforms using REST/SOAP APIs.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Whilst the max day rate on offer is £260 the contract is a minimum of 12 months (with high probability of extension), fully remote and is outside of IR35.

ServiceNow System Administrator

UK (fully remote)
£50- 60 per day outside of IR35
12 months with extension potential

Job title: Linux System administrator

Location : Cambridge- 3 Days a Week

Type: Contract

Client: Wipro

Mandatory Skills: Linux Admin

Experience: 5-8 Years

• Experience running and maintaining on-premise data centres

• Strong experience with Linux (Ubuntu / Centos)

• Experience enterprise storage including ISCSI and SAN technology

• Prior experience using automation tools (Ansible, Foreman etc)

• Knowledge of IP networking, DNS, and firewalling

• Experience with Python, shell scripts and command-line tools

• Knowledge of containerisation and related orchestration technologies

• Demonstrable experience of remediation projects, ideally within a PCI-DSS certified environment.

• Strong verbal & written communication skills and natural willingness to collaborate across teams and organisations.

• Naturally able & productive with ITSM tools such as Jira, ServiceNow etc.

Great to haves:

• Good knowledge of the various services and capabilities of cloud computing platforms; Ideally AWS

• Hyper-V, Microsoft AD, AAD & VMWare experience

• Experience maintaining OpenStack

• Experience maintaining build system, source code management, TeamCity and GitLab services

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (Computer Science preferred) or equivalent experience

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**Introduction**
At IBM CIC, we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, whom may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We offer:
* Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
* Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
* Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
* Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
* A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
* Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
* Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
* More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
* Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects and contribute to the development of our AI Lab platform.
* Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
* Professional growth and development opportunities.
If you're a motivated and experienced System Administrator looking for a new challenge, we'd love to hear from you!
**Your role and responsibilities**
We're seeking an experienced Infrastructure Specialist - System Administrator to join our AI Lab team. As a key member of our infrastructure team, you'll be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our cloud-based platform to support the development and hosting of AI services. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring the seamless operation of our applications, DevOps, middleware, security, and infrastructure components.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide 24/7 technical support for cloud-based solutions, ensuring high availability and performance across various applications and infrastructure components.
* Design, build, and maintain infrastructure and configuration as code using tools like Ansible and Terraform.
* Administer Dev, Test, and Production environments hosted on Windows, Linux, and Unix servers.
* Ensure the security and integrity of our systems against cybersecurity threats.
* Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues involving APIs, application services, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, microservices, containers, Kubernetes nodes, ICP management, middleware components, network, security, and infrastructure problems.
* Install and configure databases such as MYSQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and others.
* Implement load balancing and CDN solutions using multiple cloud vendors (e.g., Azure Load Balancer and Application Gateway).
* Support the installation and maintenance of a logging cluster using Logstash, ElasticSearch, and Kibana.
* Perform initial analysis on incidents and escalate issues to the appropriate support level when necessary.
* Manage Application ID and provide cloud elasticity by auto-scaling resources based on business requirements.
* Ensure Disaster Recovery (DR) and manual redundancy failover capabilities.
* Provide regular service management reports to keep clients informed.
* Follow ITIL processes and Integrated Service Level Management best practices.
**Required technical and professional expertise**
* Strong experience in system administration, infrastructure management, and cloud computing.
* Proficiency in infrastructure as code tools like Ansible and Terraform.
* Experience with DevOps practices and tools.
* Strong knowledge of load balancing, CDN options, and cloud vendors (e.g., Azure).
* Experience with database administration (MYSQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.).
* Familiarity with containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
* Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
* Experience with ITIL processes and service management. Excellent communication and reporting skills.
**Preferred technical and professional experience**
* Experience with AI/ML workloads and infrastructure.
* Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices and threat mitigation.
* Familiarity with multiple cloud vendors (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

**Introduction**
At IBM CIC, we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, whom may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We offer:
* Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
* Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
* Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
* Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
* A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
* Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
* Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
* More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
* Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects and contribute to the development of our AI Lab platform.
* Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
* Professional growth and development opportunities.
If you're a motivated and experienced System Administrator looking for a new challenge, we'd love to hear from you!
**Your role and responsibilities**
We're seeking an experienced Infrastructure Specialist - System Administrator to join our AI Lab team. As a key member of our infrastructure team, you'll be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our cloud-based platform to support the development and hosting of AI services. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring the seamless operation of our applications, DevOps, middleware, security, and infrastructure components.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide 24/7 technical support for cloud-based solutions, ensuring high availability and performance across various applications and infrastructure components.
* Design, build, and maintain infrastructure and configuration as code using tools like Ansible and Terraform.
* Administer Dev, Test, and Production environments hosted on Windows, Linux, and Unix servers.
* Ensure the security and integrity of our systems against cybersecurity threats.
* Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues involving APIs, application services, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, microservices, containers, Kubernetes nodes, ICP management, middleware components, network, security, and infrastructure problems.
* Install and configure databases such as MYSQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and others.
* Implement load balancing and CDN solutions using multiple cloud vendors (e.g., Azure Load Balancer and Application Gateway).
* Support the installation and maintenance of a logging cluster using Logstash, ElasticSearch, and Kibana.
* Perform initial analysis on incidents and escalate issues to the appropriate support level when necessary.
* Manage Application ID and provide cloud elasticity by auto-scaling resources based on business requirements.
* Ensure Disaster Recovery (DR) and manual redundancy failover capabilities.
* Provide regular service management reports to keep clients informed.
* Follow ITIL processes and Integrated Service Level Management best practices.
**Required technical and professional expertise**
* Strong experience in system administration, infrastructure management, and cloud computing.
* Proficiency in infrastructure as code tools like Ansible and Terraform.
* Experience with DevOps practices and tools.
* Strong knowledge of load balancing, CDN options, and cloud vendors (e.g., Azure).
* Experience with database administration (MYSQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.).
* Familiarity with containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
* Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
* Experience with ITIL processes and service management. Excellent communication and reporting skills.
**Preferred technical and professional experience**
* Experience with AI/ML workloads and infrastructure.
* Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices and threat mitigation.
* Familiarity with multiple cloud vendors (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

**Introduction**
At IBM CIC, we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, whom may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We offer:
* Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
* Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
* Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
* Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
* A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
* Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
* Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
* More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
* Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects and contribute to the development of our AI Lab platform.
* Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
* Professional growth and development opportunities.
If you're a motivated and experienced System Administrator looking for a new challenge, we'd love to hear from you!
**Your role and responsibilities**
We're seeking an experienced Infrastructure Specialist - System Administrator to join our AI Lab team. As a key member of our infrastructure team, you'll be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our cloud-based platform to support the development and hosting of AI services. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring the seamless operation of our applications, DevOps, middleware, security, and infrastructure components.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide 24/7 technical support for cloud-based solutions, ensuring high availability and performance across various applications and infrastructure components.
* Design, build, and maintain infrastructure and configuration as code using tools like Ansible and Terraform.
* Administer Dev, Test, and Production environments hosted on Windows, Linux, and Unix servers.
* Ensure the security and integrity of our systems against cybersecurity threats.
* Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues involving APIs, application services, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, microservices, containers, Kubernetes nodes, ICP management, middleware components, network, security, and infrastructure problems.
* Install and configure databases such as MYSQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and others.
* Implement load balancing and CDN solutions using multiple cloud vendors (e.g., Azure Load Balancer and Application Gateway).
* Support the installation and maintenance of a logging cluster using Logstash, ElasticSearch, and Kibana.
* Perform initial analysis on incidents and escalate issues to the appropriate support level when necessary.
* Manage Application ID and provide cloud elasticity by auto-scaling resources based on business requirements.
* Ensure Disaster Recovery (DR) and manual redundancy failover capabilities.
* Provide regular service management reports to keep clients informed.
* Follow ITIL processes and Integrated Service Level Management best practices.
**Required technical and professional expertise**
* Strong experience in system administration, infrastructure management, and cloud computing.
* Proficiency in infrastructure as code tools like Ansible and Terraform.
* Experience with DevOps practices and tools.
* Strong knowledge of load balancing, CDN options, and cloud vendors (e.g., Azure).
* Experience with database administration (MYSQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.).
* Familiarity with containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
* Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
* Experience with ITIL processes and service management. Excellent communication and reporting skills.
**Preferred technical and professional experience**
* Experience with AI/ML workloads and infrastructure.
* Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices and threat mitigation.
* Familiarity with multiple cloud vendors (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.