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<h1 class="western" align="CENTER">Senior Linux Systems Administrator
(Ubuntu Server)</h1>
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<p class="western" align="CENTER"><b>The </b><b>Company</b></p>
<p class="western" align="JUSTIFY">My well established client based in
South West London has a superb permanent opening for a the right
candidate. Located 10 minutes' walk away from a major mainline train
station making it easily commutable from a wide area, and situated in
modern offices with a friendly team of ~30 people.</p>
<p class="western" align="JUSTIFY">Their current production environment
is being migrated from CentOS 5.x to Ubuntu Server. This exciting
opportunity brings about the need to move the company towards a more
enterprise grade I.T approach, and the right individual to make it
happen.</p>
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<p class="western" align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>Required
Skills</b></p>
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<ul>
<li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
<span style="text-decoration: none">Extensive</span> knowledge and
demonstrable use of Ubuntu Server.</p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="font-weight: normal">KVM
and surrounding utilities such as </span><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">virsh,
virt-manager, qemu-img, qemu-kvm, etc.</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal">
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</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="font-weight: normal">Familiarity
with systems management tools such as Landscape or similar </span><span style="font-weight: normal">genre</span><span style="font-weight: normal">.</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="font-weight: normal">Linux
networking, such as bonding, load balancing, </span><span style="font-weight: normal">bridging,</span><span style="font-weight: normal">
firewall configuration, etc.</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
Writing of detailed technical documents to be filed within the
company DMS.</p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
Scripting abilities in BASH, Python.</p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="font-weight: normal">Apache
configuration </span><span style="font-weight: normal">and
hardening.</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
Common service management such as OpenLDAP, BIND, etc.</p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
MySQL server deployment, configuration and maintenance.</p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
Development and deployment of backup & restore strategies using
the likes of Bacula.</p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
Exposure to server hardware from HP & Dell and usage of DRAC &
iLO.</p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
Storage & File systems – iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, OCFS2, ext3 and
ext4.</p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
Previous usage of RHEL/CentOS and understanding of it's underlying
structure.</p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="font-weight: normal">Fluen</span><span style="font-weight: normal">cy
in the</span><span style="font-weight: normal"> English language,
both spoken and written.</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
Solid interpersonal skills.</p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="font-weight: normal">Ability
to work closely with and relate to the development, networking, and
management teams, </span><span style="font-weight: normal">likewise
to work alone.</span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">
Delegation and management of juniors.</p>
</li></ul>
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<p class="western" align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>Desired
Skills</b></p>
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</p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">PHP
development experience.</p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Perl
(Ability to understand or debug existing scripts. These are being
migrated to Python).</p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Networking
& security policies.</p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Database
administration and performance tuning.</p>
</li></ul>
<ul>
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</ul>
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<p class="western" align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>Beneficial
Skills</b></p>
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</p>
<ul>
<li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Microsoft
Windows Server knowledge.</p>
</li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Exposure
to Cisco, Fortigate, Infortrend, NetApp products.</p>
</li></ul>
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<p class="western" align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>Remuneration</b></p>
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<li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Highly
attractive and competitive.</p>
</li></ul>