Linux Systems Administrator

Linux Systems Administrator – Hybrid working (2 days in office / 3 days from home)

Paying an attractive salary + fantastic benefits including bonus (averagely 20%), BUPA health insurance, 4 x salary life assurance, season ticket loan, excellent pension scheme, sponsorship for relevant qualifications, 25 days holiday plus ability to buy & sell, plus more

This is an opportunity to join a company who sees year-on-year growth, is a genuine market leader in the financial services software industry and one who cares about the development of its staff.

In this role of Linux Systems Administrator, you will have the chance to work with varied technology in a pro opensource organisation during a period of IT transformation. They are looking for an experienced Systems Administrator with a strong Linux skill set to join an innovative and growing team, who also have a number of exciting projects upcoming as part of a wider business change programme.

Main responsibilities:

• Helping the IT Operations Manager to maintain the operations of the company server systems, networking infrastructure and communications.
• Design, installation, upgrading, operation, control and maintenance of Linux server systems, network, voice and desktop infrastructures.
• Ensuring the availability of all relevant systems, through the implementation and management of maintenance, monitoring and change control strategies.
• Specification and ordering of equipment, software and services.
• Maintaining up to date and effective documentation on all relevant IT systems, services and procedures.
• Managing user accounts and access levels.
• Assisting in the control of the IT security policy and associated policies.
• Ensuring security on all systems and legal requirements are met.
• Assisting in the management and responsibility for company data ensuring that all backup and restore procedures are adhered to and effective.
• Providing training, coaching and mentoring to other administrators and 1st/2nd line support staff.
• Building and maintaining relationships with External and Internal contacts.
• The management of projects to implement business systems solutions and or processes for information management.
• Overseeing the uninterrupted monitoring of the IT infrastructure, making sure all systems are capable of handling their given workloads and have not been compromised by any external influences.
• Ensuring that any planned changes to the IT infrastructure are efficient, viable and documented in line with Change Control methodologies.
• Providing regular updates and reports on workloads, planned or unplanned outages, system improvements and any other IT related issues that may affect business operation.
• Assisting the developers and business analysts with the design and implementation of new systems.
• Providing where necessary out of hours support of the IT systems.
• Assisting in the planning, development, documentation and testing of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan, processes and procedures.

Key Skills / Requirements:

• Hands on experience with emails systems (Dovecot, Postfix)
• Detailed working knowledge of server builds configuration and remote management
• Proficient in monitoring and logging technologies such as Zabbix and Graylog
• Detailed working knowledge of local and wide area networking and associated technologies, e.g. switches, routers, firewalls, VPN’s, etc
• Good understanding of storage environments and configuration, DAS, Synology NAS, Nimble SAN
• Experienced in managing backup technology and data platforms such as Cohesity
• Good understanding of Virtualisation technologies, with hands on experience of VMware
• Hands on Experience with scripting languages, e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell etc.
• Good understanding of general security principles

Desirable Skills:

• Detailed understanding and experience of cloud platforms and services, AWS, VMware Cloud, Azure, Office 365, Sharepoint, MS Teams
• Knowledge of configuration management and orchestration tools such as Puppet, SaltStack
• Knowledge of telephony systems and technologies (e.g. SIP trunks, 3CX PBX)
• Understanding of Video Conferencing technologies such as Cisco, Polycom, Teams
• TCP/IP networking
• Knowledge of virtual desktop infrastructure RDS, Citrix, VMware Horizon, Parallels, etc
• Aruba / HP / Brocade Switch configuration and management
• Remote access and VPN technologies
• Intrusion detection & prevention solutions
• Knowledge of Database technology such as MariaDB / Postgres
• Experience of working with Cisco, Sophos, Fortinet, Palo Alto firewalls
• Hands on experience with log aggregation and elastic search

If you are an experienced Linux Systems Administrator / Infrastructure Engineer with the listed skills and experience then please apply now to find out more.