Ref: 7Systems Administrator
- Location:
- Stevenage, Herts. (20mins by train from London Kings Cross)
- Contract:
- Permanent
- Responsible to:
- Technical Director
- Description
Enthusiastic and motivated Systems Administrator required to join a successful hosting and internet services company. This is an opportunity to join a small, focused team maintaining and enhancing our core business systems and the environment in which they run.
This varied role primarily requires strong Linux and *BSD skills along with some Windows, networking, security and programming ability. You will have the opportunity to develop new skills in a number of technology areas, as well as being able to build on your existing strengths and knowledge.
This is an opportunity to make a real difference to a small team in a small company, and to have real influence on its future direction and success.
- Main responsibilities
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- Deploying and supporting core business systems in both live and test environments.
- Maintaining the network and datacentre environment in which to host live services.
- Designing, implementing and maintaining core systems architecture services, such as DNS, email, web servers, backups, etc.
- Diagnosing technical faults within the live environment and resolving issues or notifying the appropriate department as appropriate.
- Working with the Customer Support team to investigate customer queries.
- Providing expert technical advice to the rest of the company, in particular to the Projects team.
- Implementing general IT solutions as required by the company.
- Qualifications
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- Strong Linux/UNIX/BSD/Windows systems administration skills.
- Good TCP/IP networking knowledge.
- A good understanding of key internet protocols, in particular DNS, SMTP, HTTP.
- Ability to understand and write shell and Perl scripts.
- Experience setting up and maintaining PostgreSQL, MySQL or similar RDBMS.
- Experience of Apache, Exim, Bind (or similar).
- Ability to learn how existing systems operate, and to diagnose and fix bugs in them.
- Be enthusiastic about learning new technologies and building great solutions.
- Be self motivated, organised and dependable.
- Other
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- Experience of configuring CISCO switches (IOS) would be advantageous.
- Knowledge of domain registration would be advantageous.
- Understanding of SNMP, Nagios or similar monitoring technologies.
- Experience with backup systems would be advantageous.
- Familiarity with Ruby would be advantageous.