[Gllug] VACANCY: Linux Systems Admnistrator in SW London.

[paul]

The following position is currently being advertised at the company I
work for. Please do not send applications to this (the sender's)
address. The correct address is listed towards the bottom of this email.

Linux Systems Administrator

Permanent. Salary £25,000 to £30,000 dependent on candidate and
experience.

Red Snapper Ltd are looking for a new Systems Administrator to join our
technical team. Your responsibilities will cover all aspects of system
administration supporting our co-located hosted web services. You will
be expected to manage security, configuration, monitoring and
maintenance of a number of established Linux based web, DNS and email
servers. Red Snapper in a web agency based in South West London
(Mortlake). 

The successful candidate must be professional, a good communicator, a
team player, posses a good sense of humour and above all must be
passionate and enthusiastic security, stability and efficiency. They
should be keen to broaden their skill sets and enthusiastic to take on
new challenges. The ideal candidate would be pro-active, self-managed
and able to work well independently.


Required Skills and Abilities:
* Design, installation, management, maintenance, budgeting, scheduling,
reports and recommendations across:
* Core Linux setup and configuration (Debian Linux)
* HTTP/HTTPS web services (Apache)
* Email services (postfix, spam assassin, etc..)
* Security - Firewalls, SSH/SSL, identity
* Network, routing and switch management.
* High Availability cluster using Heartbeat 2 and DBRD
* Auxiliary services maintenance and management (FTP, LDAP, DNS)
* Service failure prevention


Additional abilities:
* Office Network for Workstation management
* Samba
* Service failure prevention
* Hardware maintenance


Responsibilities:
* The role will involve the management of two clusters of web servers,
firewalls, DNS and email servers, in additon to office servers. Daily
workload will generally include:
* Installing, configuring and patching Debian operating systems and
associated software
* Security and access control
* Monitoring and maintaining our key services as above.
* Maintaining and providing service reports for both internal and client
use
* Maintaining and providing quarterly budgets, schedules and
recommendations
* Maintenance of backup procedures and operations
* Continuing to be aware of future issues, potential opportunities and
being able to make recommendations of them
* Transfer of IP/DNS between Class C networks
* Maintaining and recommending options for remote hosting / colo
facilities

How to Apply:
Please send your CV and a covering note explaining what qualifies you
for the position to sysad at redsnapper.net. If we are interested we shall
ask you to complete a test question, which will help us decide whether
to offer you an interview at our offices. More information available at
http://www.redsnapper.net/sysad


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