Desired Skills and Experience

  • Experience working in a Microsoft-centric (Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, IIS, VMWare), network, and production business environment as part of a wider IT team
  • Working knowledge of a broad range of current computer technologies and implementations – for example: hybrid O365 environments, SAN and NAS storage, SaaS/PaaS solutions.
  • Experience of providing IT expertise to the design and implementation of strategic plans, corporate security and data protection policies and overall IT operations.
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent
  • Interest and willingness to develop and experience of many facets of network management and IT support
  • Specific knowledge of any of the following technologies is an advantage: VMware/VSphere, Cisco ASA/switches/routers, EMC VNX/Unity, Sonicwall firewalls, O365, AWS
  • Willingness to undertake occasional overseas travel
  • Deliver a high-quality IT service, based on Certara standards for IT service delivery within negotiated project plans, SLAs and as dictated by business need accepting the nature of 24/7/365 IT systems
  • Day to day support one or more Senior Systems Administrators in Simcyp and Certara strategic projects – this will include implementation, testing and documentation of these initiatives
  • As needed - day to day management of user queries, hardware, software and other technical issues as well as end user education/training
  • Develop and maintain system documentation on end-user systems configurations and operation as well maintain metrics on consistency and reliability of the end-user environment
  • Works under general supervision of one or more senior systems administrators

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