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About the role

We are searching for an experienced System Admin. This role will focus on the technical management of services developed and hosted by BDO Global IT. Ensuring integrity, availability, performance, recoverability, and security in accordance with established policies, procedures, and agreed service levels.

The role is set up as hybrid (remote mostly).

What you'll do    

Day-today responsibilities and expectations for this position:

• Administration of core network and business services across a range of platforms and technologies. Focused primarily on Microsoft cloud (Azure/Office365) technologies.
• Working to resolve tickets as they are escalated to our team. Communicating effectively with both internal and external resources via the help-desk system, email, voice, and Skype. Operating in accordance with ITSM standards.
• Installation, configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software.
• Ensure business continuity through effective and efficient backup and recovery methodologies of core IT services

You will automate standard procedures used to resolve Incidents, Problems, and Change Requests. Also, you will proactively monitor infrastructure and associated services, and manage infrastructure and associated services including patching and upgrading of applications and operating systems, application delivery, and problem remediation. Your daily responsibilities will include providing customer service management in addition to general duties and contribution to team objectives, participating in the projects that change existing services, establishing new services, or retiring services from an operational implementation and support perspective.

Skills and Experience

• Strong years of commercial IT experience in enterprise infrastructure implementation and administration.
• Experience working with custom internally-developed applications and interacting with development teams preferred. 
• Fundamental knowledge of ITIL, or other IT Service Management methodology frameworks

You need to demonstrate intermediate-to-advanced knowledge of the following Microsoft technologies: Azure - Especially PaaS offerings – App Services, Azure SQL, etc., Azure Active Directory B2B, Office365, SharePoint, PowerShell, and Active Directory. Also, you need to show excellent English skills - both written and verbal.

BDO and Ascent – working here

Ascent is on a mission to help our customers connect data, software, and purpose to create extraordinary outcomes. We choose hybrid working, where you balance time at the office with working at home. Our offices are places to connect and collaborate with colleagues, with socials and regular get-togethers. We take your development and growth seriously, with plenty of opportunities to acquire skills and get certified.

BDO is an international network of public accounting, tax, and advisory firms, the BDO Member Firms, which perform professional services under the name of BDO. The global network provides advisory services in 144 countries, with 56,389 employees working out of 1,264 offices worldwide. The combined fee income of all the BDO Member Firms was $6.4 billion in 2013. BDO is the brand name for the BDO network and for each of the BDO Member Firms.

Service provision within the international BDO network is coordinated by Brussels Worldwide Services BVBA, a limited liability company incorporated in Belgium with its statutory seat in Brussels.