IT Systems Engineer

Salary: £50,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements

• 5+ years as a systems administrator in complex environments
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Windows/Microsoft infrastructure, including Active Directory, domain controllers, group policy, and user provisioning
• Experience implementing and maintaining security and compliance frameworks to meet client technology requirements
• Hands-on experience with CrowdStrike/Defender, endpoint security, threat management, and vulnerability assessment
• Hands-on experience designing and managing VPN infrastructure, VPC configuration, VM provisioning, secure remote access, authentication systems, network segmentation, VM hardening, and encryption protocols
• Coding ability in PowerShell, Python, or similar, with experience building internal tools, dashboards, and automation
• Hands-on web development experience building and maintaining internal applications and web tools
• Creative technology literacy, including understanding of 3DS Max and Unreal Engine, pipeline workflows, asset management, and rendering infrastructure
• Responsive, reliable, strategic, and able to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborative and genuinely interested in solving problems

Responsibilities

• Own the complete Microsoft infrastructure stack across the organisation
• Design, deploy, maintain, and evolve Windows/Microsoft infrastructure, including Active Directory, domain controllers, group policy, and user management
• Manage employee devices and infrastructure for distributed teams across timezones
• Support device provisioning, remote access, mobile device management, onboarding, and offboarding
• Deploy and manage CrowdStrike/Defender across endpoints
• Implement security hardening, vulnerability management, threat response, and ongoing patching
• Design, manage, and maintain secure remote access infrastructure, including VPN architecture, authentication systems, MFA, SSO, certificates, secure tunnelling, VPC configuration, and network segmentation
• Provision and harden virtual machines and manage their lifecycle
• Build infrastructure-grade tools and systems, including HR platforms, ops dashboards, and workflow automation
• Write automation code in PowerShell, Python, or similar
• Develop internal web applications and user interfaces for business operations
• Provide technical support and infrastructure for 3DS Max environments, scripts, and datasmith operations
• Create editor utilities in Unreal using C++ to enable automation and custom workflows
• Design and manage digital asset pipelines for asset management, virtual production, version control, and Unreal package delivery
• Manage backend infrastructure for pixelstreaming and online delivery of Unreal packages
• Stabilise and modernise infrastructure
• Establish security and compliance frameworks as embedded, continuous responsibilities
• Build foundational tools and automation across the organisation
• Scale tools and automation and expand web development capabilities
• Provide responsive support alongside strategic infrastructure and tools work

Technologies

• Active Directory
• Backend
• CGI
• Embedded
• Support
• Mobile
• Network
• PowerShell
• Python
• Security
• Unreal
• VPN
• Web
• Windows
• GameDev
• AI
• AWS
• Architect
• Cloud
• Hardware

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last updated 35 week of 2026