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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Urban CGI embeds certainty into the worlds largest infrastructure programmes by proving sequences before they are built, helping win approvals and change behaviours. We work across tunnelling, heavy civil, transport, and major construction, applying behavioural science, 4D simulation, and interactive models to solve the biggest problems facing infrastructure megaprojects. This is a remote role aligned to EU time zones, offered as a full-time contract with a competitive day rate negotiable by experience and scope. We are committed to building a diverse team and creating an inclusive environment.
last updated 35 week of 2026