[linuxjobs] Linux Systems Administrator - NW London

[Stephen Nelson-Smith]

Hello,

I've been asked to recruit a Linux Systems Administrator for one of
our clients.  They're based in London, but I know many folk who
commute from Hampshire, so here's the spec:

Job:                    Systems Administrator
Company:                Wordtracker
Location:               Kentish Town, London, NW5 (excellent transport)
Salary:                 £45K
Culture:                No tie. Agile development
Hours:          PAYE, 5 days a week (Monday - Friday), min 35 hrs,  
flexible
but core office hours are from 11am - 5pm.
Benefits:               Free food on Friday!
                        23 days holiday & pension.

THE COMPANY

Wordtracker is a small company of around 15 people and our offices are
based in Kentish Town, London. Roughly half of the people are
developers mainly using: PHP, Ruby (and Ruby on Rails) and agile
development.

We specialise in: keywords, data analysis, mining and extracting
meaning out of online data. Our primary product is the keyword
research tool, Wordtracker (http://www.wordtracker.com), which has
been serving keywords to customers for over 10 years (since 1998).

THE CULTURE

Wordtracker has been using agile and extreme programming across our
company since we started and as a result our roles includes pairing
time with other developers and management. The style is informal (a
tie free zone).

Most of what we do we haven't done before, so Wordtracker is very much
a learning organisation.

THE CHALLENGE

Wordtracker is a large technically complicated environment, much of
which has been built from scratch. In addition to maintaining a
business-critical web front-end, there is a significant amount of
batch processing and database work involved in keeping Wordtracker
running. Most of this infrastructure is very highly automated. We need
someone to join the team, assimilate quickly a deep and diverse body
of knowledge, get their head around the system and work to improve it
continuously.

THE ROLE

Personality:

* Open and communicative
* Commercially aware
* Comfortable working with Agile Methodologies

Experience:

* Fluent in sysadmin tools, including Puppet and Nagios
* Experienced with version control (git)
* Comfortable working with scripting languages, Bash and the Unix
command line, particularly in a web environment
* Open to working within iterations; estimating tasks; familiar with  
pairing
* Experience with high availability systems

Platform:

* CentOS & RedHat (RH Certificate welcome)

Technologies:

* Web servers - (NginX, Apache, Passenger)
* Virtualisation (Xen and VM Ware)
* Databases (MySQL, Postgres)
* Automation tools (e.g. Puppet and Chef)
* Monitoring tools (Nagios)
* Firewalls (iptables)
* Storage (SAN, NFS, Samba)
* Packaging (RPMs)
* Mac support (no windows support needed)

If this interests you please contact me off list, ASAP.

Thanks,

S.

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Stephen Nelson-Smith
Technical Director
Atalanta Systems Ltd
www.atalanta-systems.com