Senior Systems Administrator - Glasgow Area

Axis Studios Group, a BAFTA award winning Animation and Visual FX Studio, are seeking a SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR  to join the technical support team on a permanent basis on site in our Glasgow studio.

The role carries a high level of responsibility, providing technical support across multiple studios, and consequently we’re looking for an experienced systems administrator with a broad background and an ability to support multiple technologies.

The SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR role provides a great opportunity to work with a talented team on exciting projects in the games and media sector, whilst handling operational tasks in support of both general IT systems and industry-centric systems such as render farms, remote desktop services, and SaaS / cloud platforms.

Communication skills and an ability to make decisions under pressure, as well as analytical and problem-solving skills are essential attributes for this role.

The ideal candidate will have an understanding and/or appreciation of the challenging nature of the animation/VFX industry.

Systems Administrators are under the line management of the Head of IT in Glasgow and servicing stakeholders across Glasgow, Bristol and London.

General responsibilities:

• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs.

• Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.

• Participate in administration of backup operations.

• Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary.

• Create, change, and delete user accounts per request.

• Support workstation management, imaging, and configuration.

• Ensure proper documentation of systems and procedures.

• Support physical security systems and ensure proper functioning.

• Support in-house application configuration and usage.

• Maintain asset tracking systems to ensure best management of resources.

• Assess, troubleshoot, and resolve user hardware/software issues

• Repair and recover from hardware or software failures

• Maintain floating license servers.

• Apply OS and firmware patches and upgrades.

• Upgrade and configure infrastructure systems and software as needed.

• Maintain server room and colocation facility environmental and monitoring equipment.

• Other duties and projects as assigned

• Mentor less experienced members of the team.

• Act as a deputy to the Head of IT & Facilities

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Essential Skills/Experience:

• CentOS / Redhat Linux configuration and management.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux including command line.
• Samba and NFS configuration in multiplatform environment.
• Experience with Windows 10 Pro including installation and configuration.
• Familiarity with Windows Server OS and Active Directory.
• Thorough understanding of servers, networking, storage and compute-cluster systems for troubleshooting purposes.
• LAN/WAN networking.
• Enterprise-level firewalls.
• Virtualization platforms (on-premise and cloud-based).

Desirable requirements:

• Experience of troubleshooting creative programs such as Maya, Houdini, Photoshop, Nuke, Fusion.

COVID-19 considerations:

Currently we have reduced individuals to an absolute minimum the who attend onsite. 99% of our teams are working from home for the foreseeable.

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