A Windows estate is only as good as the person who automates it.

A multinational defence organisation runs a set of environments in The Hague that its ownengineers and customers depend on daily. You would keep those environments healthy, and you wouldbe the person everybody asks when something Microsoft-shaped goes wrong.

What you would be doing

• Operating and maintaining the whole family of environments behind one service line, rather thana single box
• Acting as the reference point for Windows Server and the Microsoft tool suite around it -update management, configuration management, directory and federation services
• Writing and maintaining the PowerShell that removes the repetitive work, and the configurationmanagement that keeps every machine the same
• Getting to root cause when a system or a service misbehaves, and saying plainly what happened
• Bringing new services into operation and improving the ones already there

What you would bring

• Solid hands-on administration of Windows and Windows Server in a large organisation, with thesurrounding Microsoft management stack
• Real scripting ability in PowerShell, plus configuration management tooling such as Ansible,Puppet or Chef
• Comfortable troubleshooting both servers and end-user machines under time pressure
• Working knowledge of a virtualisation stack, and ideally containers or public cloud
• Professional English, and the habit of writing down what you changed

Why this one is worth a look

It is a broad remit on a serious platform, with enough automation work in it to be interesting,and it runs from a standing framework rather than a one-off project. There is flexibility to workfrom home when the work allows it.