[linuxjobs] System Administrator - Gatwick, Telecommute

[Gareth Kirwan]

Thermeon are looking for an experienced system administrator to join its 
team.
As a market leading technology company providing software and services 
globally to the car rental industry, we take pride in our long history 
of innovation and excellent customer service.
Thermeon has offices in the UK, Australia and USA, with sales and 
support staff, developers and system administrators around the world. In 
support of our systems we run a global network of servers and 
infrastructure. A wide range of services and solutions means candidates 
must be adaptable, quick learners, and able to handle diverse and 
complex infrastructures. You'll be working with other system 
adminstrators globally to maintain and grow our systems, and develop new 
solutions to scale our services to meet new challenges and growth.
The successful candidate should have at least 4 years experience 
managing networks of linux servers. A strong understanding of 
virtualisation, replication and redundancy is important.
You should enjoy learning and exploring new technologies and applying 
them to real world problems. Candidates must be able to plan, document, 
test and implement solutions either in isolation or as part of a team. 
Clear communication and a helpful attitude are important for candidates 
to work with the rest of the company. You must take pride in the systems 
you manage, and the solutions you deliver.
You should be used to working to deadlines, manage your time, and report 
project statuses to interested parties.
Candidates should be experienced with working in conjunction with a 
development team to help deploy, manage and scale web applications, and 
the databases, caches and related services which support them. You 
should have experience writing scripts and programs to help with all 
your responsibilities.

This role is based in our UK Gatwick office, but telecommuting is an 
option if  candidates have track record of successfully working remotely 
in the past, have a suitable environment free from distractions, and are 
available to travel to the Gatwick based UK office when necessary.

Required skills and familiarities:

Linux administration (Both Debian and Redhat)
Network and VPN administration
LDAP authentication
Distributed configuration management (cfengine, chef, puppet, deb/rpm 
packages)
Virtualisation (Both KVM and openvz)
Replication (DRBD or alternatives)
Log aggregation and management
Monitoring and alerting solutions (servers, services, networks)
Mail servers
Database server admin and scaling (postgresql)
Web service deployment and management
Web servers (lighttpd/nginx) and Load balancing
Documentation
Scripting experience (perl, ruby, python, etc)
VOIP (Asterisk/FreePBX)

Salary in the range of £40-60k, pension and other benefits available.

Please contact gareth at thermeon.com