Systems Administrator (Directory Services - AD/NetIQ)

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Job Title - Systems Administrator (Directory Services - Active Directory/NetIQ)

Location - Manchester, Greater Manchester

Salary - £30,000 - £50,000 per annum + Excellent Benefits

A position for a talented Systems Administrator, specialising in directory services, has become available with my client.

You will join a talented team of IT professionals taking responsibility for the administration of the organisations directory and authentication systems.

Job Responsibilities

- Responsibility of ensuring that directory services and components meet and continue to meet the agreed performance and service levels.

- Takes responsibility for the accessibility, retrievability, and security of specific subsets of data and information.

- Responds to enquiries by users, specialists or others and is able to deal effectively with a broad range of problems.

- Takes a leading technical role in systems development projects, both within systems design and in interfaces with other stages of development. Evaluates and undertakes impact analysis on major design options.

- Reviews information systems for actual or potential breaches in security, and investigates complex, or highly sensitive violations referred by more junior staff or colleagues, handling issues imaginatively, efficiently and professionally.

- Manages the operation of appropriate security controls as a production service to business system users.

- Investigates system access enquiries referred by support staff and all enquiries relating to information security, contingency planning, as they affect the activities of the organisation, function or department.

- Advises on, and assists with the assessment of the potential impact on existing access security mechanisms of specific planned technical changes, in order to help ensure that potential compromise or weakening of existing security controls is minimised. Also assists in the evaluation, testing and implementation of such changes.

- Provides supervision, motivation, technical direction, development, training and mentoring to subordinate team members. Assigns work to team members as appropriate. Manages staff performance.

- Actively work to ensure knowledge sharing amongst colleagues to avoid single point of failure.

Essential Skills

- Substantial work experience within a similar role and a degree/professional certification such as MCSA.

- Knowledge and experience working with Access Control Systems.

- Knowledge of the principles, practices, tools and techniques of IT auditing.

- Strong knowledge and understanding of IT infrastructure, IT applications and service processes.

- Good understanding of risk management, specifically the methods and techniques for the assessment and management of business risk.

- Analytical mind set.

- Excellent organisational skills.

- Strong communication skills, both oral and written.

If you wish to apply to this exciting opportunity, do so today for your CV to be sent directly to me for consideration.

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