Senior Systems Administrator - Glasgow Hybrid - 47K plus Bonus

Senior Systems Administrator - Glasgow Hybrid - 47K plus Bonus

Hybrid - Around 3 days in office in Central Glasgow, rest working from home

Lorien's client, a fast-growing, global-reaching SAAS company with a great reputation in their domain, are currently looking to hire a Senior Systems Administrator to play a key role in strengthening and modernising an internal IT environment. This is a hands‑on senior technical role, ideal for someone who enjoys a mix of operational ownership, improvement projects, mentoring junior engineers, and driving best practice across infrastructure, identity and endpoint management.

What You'll Be Doing

• Acting as a subject matter expert for Windows & MacOS, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP and Microsoft infrastructure services.
• Administering and improving Microsoft 365 including Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, and Entra ID
• Managing modern endpoint environments across Windows 10/11, macOS and iOS using Intune
• Supporting and maintaining Hyper‑V virtualisation, storage, and backup platforms
• Leading 2nd/3rd line escalations, root cause analysis and preventative improvements
• Driving patching, system hardening and vulnerability remediation
• Contributing to internal IT upgrades, migrations and wider improvement initiatives
• Keeping technical documentation, runbooks, and asset records accurate and up‑to‑date
• Providing mentoring, guidance and knowledge-sharing with junior IT colleagues

What We're Looking For

• Proven track record in systems administration across Windows and macOS environments
• Hands‑on skills across Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune / device management
• Strong understanding of Active Directory, GPO, DNS, DHCP and core Microsoft infrastructure services
• Demonstrable record across Hyper‑V / virtualisation, backup solutions, DR planning and resilience testing
• Solid networking knowledge: LAN / WAN / VLANs / VPNs / firewalls
• Ideally PowerShell skills and a strong grasp of automation
• Desirable: Linux, Terraform or Ansible, Teams telephony, IIS, DR simulations

Why This Role Might Suit You

If you enjoy real technical ownership, modernising environments, driving improvement, and mentoring others-while working across identity, endpoints, infrastructure, and security-this role offers strong variety and impact.

They offer a comprehensive benefits package including annual and spot bonuses as well as a generous holiday allowance, and a supportive, evolving work setting. So if you're looking to join a great firm with major expansion and evolution on the horizon, offering a host of benefits with staff at the centre such as flexible working, bonuses and recognition rewards, healthcare, progression and more, apply now with your latest CV and let's have a chat.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.