Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

• Are you an experienced sysadmin with a history of managing and maintaining cloud based servers, infrastructure services and an Active directory environment?

• Do you have good IT security governance experience, including backup, recovery, and management of protection tools to react to security events?

• Do you have experience working with and communicating with a variety of IT users across a large global team?

If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you.

The Role:

Oxfam GB is looking for a UK based Senior Systems Administrator who will be responsible for supporting and maintaining our core infrastructure in our global regional offices and within our cloud hosted environments in Azure.

What we are looking for:

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam's mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.

Resourcefulness is a key requirement of this role, you should be able to respond to requests and diagnose problems quickly so that our technology runs smoothly.

The role will work alongside a wide variety of IT teams and key stakeholders across several countries, you will need to have strong communication skills to respond to incoming support requests and be able to work alongside others to help maintain our systems.

An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:

• Supporting the IT infrastructure by creating, building, and maintaining virtual machines and other Infrastructure and providing support throughout its lifecycle for security and maintenance updates.
• Monitoring system performance of the infrastructure and to ensure that issues are addressed as they appear.
• Creating reports, logging changes and documenting information to ensure that systems meet our internal and regulatory compliance standards. 
• Stakeholder relationship experience, supporting the sever owners to ensure that the environments created for them is fit for purpose and is configured correctly, offering advice on the most suitable and cost-effective methods to provide a solution based on their requirements. 

We offer:

This role will give you an opportunity to make a difference in the Transformation department at Oxfam GB, to act as key contributor to provide services that will support infrastructure services that allow sites all over the world to use key services and communicate effectively.  This means you'll get to work with an international group of passionate people that are specialists in their IT fields.

We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits. 

From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more. 

You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.

Flexfam:

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you. We think this role would work particularly well as partially home-based and office based (hybrid working) with a minimum of 2 days a week in the Head Office. This would be agreed with your manager.

How to apply:

As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.  

This role is UK based and open to candidates who have a legal right to work in the UK without visa sponsorship. 

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

About us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. 

A thriving diverse Oxfam:

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To do that:

• We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
• We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
• We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.