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Hire a Systems Administrator.

Users, devices, servers and backups, managed.

Also called: SysAdmin, Microsoft 365 Administrator, Google Workspace Administrator

From £5.50 an hour£5.50-25/hr

  • IT & managed services
  • Professional services
  • Healthcare
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your Systems Administrator gets doneSample day
  • Administers users, groups, licences, Conditional AccessIdentity and tenant administration
  • Builds and maintains Intune complianceEndpoint and device management
  • Administers Windows Server roles and Linux serversServers and infrastructure
  • Monitors backup jobs in Veeam, Datto, CoveBackup and recoveryDoing
In your tools
  • Microsoft 365 admin center
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • SharePoint admin center
  • Microsoft Intune
  • Microsoft Defender XDR
  • Microsoft Purview

Pick the level. See the price.

£9.50an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costs£16/hr
A tested Intermediate Systems Administrator£9.50/hr
At least 40% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Owns day-to-day administration of a tenant and server estate and edits Group Policy.

  • Intune and Group Policy configurations with documentation
  • Patch ring and compliance reports
  • Restore test records

3-4 years in systems administration.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude VAT.

What you hand to your Systems Administrator

Tasks

  • Identity and tenant administration

    • Administers users, groups, licences, Conditional Access
    • Maintains hybrid identity where it exists
    • Runs access reviews, keeps admin roles to least privilege
    • Automates leaver and joiner steps

  • Endpoint and device management

    • Builds and maintains Intune compliance
    • Manages Apple devices in Jamf or Intune

  • Servers and infrastructure

    • Administers Windows Server roles and Linux servers
    • Patches servers and workstations on a schedule

  • Backup and recovery

    • Monitors backup jobs in Veeam, Datto, Cove
    • Runs scheduled restore tests, record recovery times

  • Security hardening and email

    • Applies Microsoft Secure Score, CIS or Essential Eight recommendations
    • Configures and monitors SPF, DKIM and DMARC and Defender

  • Projects, escalation and documentation

    • Takes Tier 3 escalations from the service desk
    • Plans and runs projects
    • Writes PowerShell scripts for reports and bulk changes

Tested before you meet them

  1. Microsoft 365 Tenant Admin LabAll levels1.5 hrs
  2. Systems Fundamentals TestAll levels40 min
  3. PowerShell Scripting TaskIntermediate and up45 min
  4. Tenant Hardening ReviewIntermediate and up60 min
  5. Backup Failure and Recovery ScenarioIntermediate and up45 min
  6. Migration Plan CaseExpert and Specialist1.5 hrs

One score on every profileSample shown

88%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Systems Administrator is £5.50 an hour, Intermediate £9.50, Expert £14.50 and Specialist £25, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Identity and tenant administration, endpoint and device management, servers and infrastructure and backup and recovery, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including microsoft 365 Tenant Admin Lab, systems Fundamentals Test and powerShell Scripting Task. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Systems Administrator works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. Your Systems Administrator works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Systems Administrator owns day-to-day administration of a tenant and server estate and edits Group Policy. An Expert Systems Administrator designs and leads tenant hardening, hybrid identity, email and tenant-to-tenant migrations. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Systems Administrator is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Microsoft 365 admin center and Microsoft Entra ID, before you meet them.

In week one: read-only access first to the tenant, backup console, RMM and documentation platform; recorded walkthrough of the client's environment; and change management procedure, maintenance windows and approver list. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called SysAdmin, Microsoft 365 Administrator and Google Workspace Administrator. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

Book a 15-minute demo on Microsoft Teams, any time, day or night. We show you the people, levels and prices that fit. No obligation.

Meet the people who fit your work.

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