[linuxjobs] Linux Systems Administrator - Brighton, Permanent

[Paul Wood]

Hi folks,

We're hiring again! The role is essentially the same as the one below, but
this time we're particularly interested in people with good networking skills
and experience with Perl. Salary up to £40k, depending on experience.

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 04:12:35PM +0100, Paul Wood wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> We're looking for a new sysadmin at Editure. Salary up to £35k.
> 
> ---
> 
> Editure Education is a Brighton-based company who specialise in software for
> the education sector. We designed the UK's first large scale Virtual Learning
> Environment (VLE) and the first learning platform, DB Primary, designed solely
> for primary schools. We currently have a vacancy for a Linux Systems
> Administrator, to be based at our offices in central Brighton.
> 
> Editure is a small but fast growing company, low on politics and bureaucracy
> and high on innovation and technical excellence. It's a fun and friendly place
> to work with a genuinely constructive and collaborative attitude. The
> successful candidate will join a team of two existing Systems Administrators
> responsible for the management and upkeep of our live infrastructure,
> including around 100 servers - both physical and virtual - comprising scalable
> and highly-available clusters.
> 
> We're looking for someone who likes to do things the right way and enjoys deep
> technical challenges. There is a lot of scope to be involved in and drive
> projects using new and emerging technologies, so you should be able to design
> and implement inventive and scalable systems - but also know when to keep
> things simple.
> 
> The systems team is also responsible for supporting our developers and acting
> as a point of escalation for our Customer Support team. We support the office
> network and computers (including some Windows desktops). Some low-volume
> on-call work is required and occasional out-of-hours work is necessary.
> 
> This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to enjoy a stimulating
> and varied role, working in a fast-paced environment encompassing many
> different technologies and it is a great opportunity to make a difference in a
> fast-growing company. You need to be comfortable working in an environment of
> rapid development, as part of a multi-disciplined technical team, and will be
> expected to actively contribute to the evolution of working practices and
> processes.
> 
> Required skills:
> * Solid and proven experience of administering Linux machines (we mainly use
>   Ubuntu Server).
> * Experience running scalable web platforms and software.
> * Good understanding of common application-layer network protocols (DNS, SMTP,
>   HTTP, IMAP, etc.)
> * Scripting in preferably more than one of Shell, Perl, Ruby or Python.
> * Administration of relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL in
>   clustered/replicated environments.
> * Comfortable working in a datacentre environment.
> 
> Desirable skills:
> * Experience of a using and supporting a Java environment and related
>   technologies such as the JVM, Apache Tomcat, Jenkins and Maven.
> * Good working knowledge of TCP/IP and network security.
> * Experience with virtualisation technologies such as KVM, Xen or VMWare.
> * Experience with high availability systems and clusters.
> * Configuration management using Puppet.
> * Comfortable with version control using Git and Subversion.
> 
> If you are interested in this position please forward your CV to
> <admin at editure.co.uk>.
> 
> If you have any questions, feel free to email me at <pwood at editure.co.uk>.

-- 
Paul Wood
Systems Administrator
Editure Education Services UK