Linux Systems Administrator
North East England
- Reference: 385475
- Job type: Permanent
- Salary: c. £60,000 plus benefits
- Location: Newcastle upon Tyne / Remote Working
The Company
Global technology business is seeking to recruit a highly experienced Linux Systems Administrator.
The role
As part of a growing team you will work closely with development and tech teams ensuring technical Issues and projects are correctly managed. In addition you will:
- Deliver small and large technical projects in a prompt and timely manner.
- Act as an escalation for Support Incidents and assignments while maintaining a high level of quality
- Document technical concerns, solutions and support information.
- Be responsible for continuous improvement, continuous delivery and continuous integration.
- Regularly carry out maintenance and monitoring of infrastructure and its operational systems.
The requirements
As an experienced Linux system administration skills, preferably with Centos, you will possess:
- The ability to prioritise workload including occasional Incidents and Problem management
- Automation and Scripting skills including use of Scripting languages; Bash and Python etc
- Knowledge of platform or application automated deployment and configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Docker, terraform etc)
- Previous experience of managing technical projects or assignments
- An understanding of error messages and logs displayed by software.
- Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose and solve issues independently.
- Self-learner, ability to document learning as experience is gained.
- Experience as part of a team supporting and maintaining an infrastructure.
- A Passion for technology.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Any experience with the following would be desirable:
- An interest in development, new technologies and innovation
- Supporting development teams into the refactoring of technical debt
- Nomad, kubernetes, docker and containers
- Documenting existing technical software services.CentOS/RH 7 or equivalent
- Experience with monitoring systems, e.g. Zabbix, Nagios, New Relic, DataDog, Splunk etc.
- Database administration experience
- Experience of JIRA and Confluence
- Understanding of MySQL and Postgresql or DB technologies
- Nginx or web server technologies
- Gluster or storage technologies
- Git and version control
Remote working will be allowed as long as you can be in the office c. 1 day per week.
