IT Systems Administration Team Leader in Maidstone

Location: Rochester, Kent

Salary: £80,000

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Manage the allocation & delivery of work within the Team, including feeding into the main Resource plan.
• Manage the DBA resource team, setting objectives, directing and motivating, creating development plans and allocating and tracking work progress.
• Identify and manage relationships with key stakeholders, including other IT Teams, Customers & Suppliers.
• Manage Business escalations and service issues, taking appropriate actions and working with our 3rd party IT providers.
• Manage a number of systems and servers, a mix of on-prem and Oracle Cloud environments.
• Ensure systems and environment are patched to the latest vendor patch levels.

Essential Skills and Experiences:

• Experience leading a small team.
• Experience performing SQL Server Administration and Support.
• Experience performing Oracle Database Administration and Support.
• Knowledge of Windows, Linux and Red Hat Operating Systems.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience supporting Oracle eBusiness Suite or Oracle SaaS environments.
• Experience using Service Now, Jira and Jira Service Management.
• Some knowledge of Teamcenter Unified, SharePoint, T-SQL, SQL, SSIS, Power BI, Oracle RDBMS 11i, 12c Red Hat Linux skills.
• ITIL Certification and knowledge of a software development lifecycle.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The IT Systems Administration Team:

The role is responsible for ensuring the monitoring, maintenance and management of databases, application services and servers key to the business operation. As a Team Leader, you will manage the day-to-day running of the team including resource allocation, ensure maintenance activities are performed in line with our procedural mandates and improve execution through continuous improvement. This role will involve an element of being on-call to support.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 12th December 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.