[linuxjobs] VACANCY: Graduate Linux system administrator

[Gabrielle Luciano]

About us: 
Xtraordinary Hosting Ltd (www.xtrahost.co.uk) is a well established UK Webhosting Provider that's been in operation for 10 years. 

Our product offering includes: 
•	Dedicated and virtualised server hosting 
•	Private cloud hosting, including hybrid cloud hosting combining our public cloud platform with dedicated hardware 
•	Complex hosting providing using shared storage and load balancing 
•	Software as a Service solutions 

Job Role: 

Graduate role with varied responsibilities: 
•	Physical deployment of servers, network equipment and firewalls in datacentre racks 
•	Operating system installation 
•	System administration 
•	First line technical support for business customers 
•	Software evaluation and integration projects 
Skill Requirements 
•	University degree with a significant computing or information systems component 
•	Systems administration skills in either a linux/unix or Microsoft environment 
•	TCP/IP ethernet networking 
•	Interest in Internet related technologies 
Personal Qualities Required 
•	Intelligent, logical, problem solver 
•	Strong work ethic 
•	Team worker 
•	Reliable, organised 

Career Prospects: 

We are a people focussed business and believe that people are our biggest asset. We actively work to develop and further the careers of our team members. In-business training and mentoring is provided as part of this position. 
All our employees work towards a career plan which we help them develop. Our aim is to develop engineers into architects or managers in the long run. 
We use a mix of technologies including Cisco, Juniper, Microsoft, VMware and Xen. You will have the opportunity to gain experience with all of these technologies, as well as optional certification. 
We aim to allow all new recruits as much experience with different systems as possible to help hone their skills and allow them to develop down a well defined career path. 
This position may longer term be focussed on systems engineering (building scalable infrastructure and complex deployments) or systems architecture (designing and building software systems using Linux and OSS). 

This role is based in our central London office in the vibrant Spitalfields area near Liverpool Street station. 

Salary 
up to £25k dependent on degree and experience. Review after 6 months. 
40 hours per week. Office hours. In addition the job holder will be on-call for out of hours cover on a rota-basis. 

To apply for this position please reply and include your CV.

Gabrielle Luciano

Xtraordinary Hosting : http://www.xtrahost.co.uk
sales at xtrahost.co.uk
Tel: 0870 743 7408
Fax: 0870 743 7409 
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