[linuxjobs] Senior System Administrator and Senior IT Support Specialist, University of Bristol, £40046-£45053 pa + 40 days leave and final salary pension

[Alex Butcher]

In the central IT service:

<http://www.bris.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingID=1642&nPostingTarget 
ID=5489&option=28&sort=DESC&respnr=1&ID=Q50FK026203F3VBQBV7V77V83&LOV1=6719& 
Resultsperpage=10&lg=UK&mask=uobext>

"We are seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to work within a team of 
technical IT staff which has responsibility for the design, development, 
support and maintenance of the University’s mission critical Unix (Linux and 
Solaris) systems.

You will have knowledge of the practice of systems administration, 
including: identity management, security, patching, packaging, automation 
and backup; and building, installing and configuring open source software. 
You should have experience of scalable and resilient systems having managed 
multiple servers in a heterogeneous and complex environment.

You will have a working knowledge of file transfer mechanisms, iSCSI, fibre 
channel and cluster file systems such as GPFS. You should be fluent in 
python and bash scripting languages and debugging software.

You must possess knowledge and experience including but not limited to: 
Solaris and GNU/Linux operating systems; sparc and x86 hardware; monitoring, 
virtualisation for Linux (such as Xen) and Solaris (zones), configuration 
management (including bcfg2) and databases."

Benefits include 40 days paid holiday (25 days annual leave, 8 public 
holidays, 7 closure days at Easter and Christmas/NY) and membership of the 
USS final salary pension scheme (funded by an additional employer 
contribution of 16% combined with an employee contribution of 7.5%, so 
effective salary range is about £46654-£52487)


Also, out in the Engineering Faculty:

<http://www.bris.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingID=1645&nPostingTarget 
ID=5485&option=28&sort=DESC&respnr=5&ID=Q50FK026203F3VBQBV7V77V83&Resultsper 
page=10&lg=UK&mask=uobext>

"A vacancy has arisen for a Senior IT Support Specialist to work as part of
the Service Delivery division within IT Services. The successful candidate
will work as part of an established team of 13 whose collective role is to
provide desktop and server support to research groups and teaching
departments in the Faculty of Engineering. The roleholder will work on the
delivery of end-user support to the Department of Computer Science. This is
an open ended post.

The roleholder will contribute significantly in the delivery of Linux 
solutions at all levels, including – but not limited to – the development of 
stable, sustainable Linux desktop distributions and multiuser servers; 
automated monitoring, security and license management and updating on server 
systems, including rolling out consistent practices for existing systems; 
procurement, provisioning, configuration and systems administration of 
systems and servers from initiation to completion; engagement with teaching 
and research issues and the provision of advice to academic staff writing 
grant proposals. Server side, the existing fleet draws on Enterprise Solaris 
(v8 to 10) & Linux (Centos and Ubuntu) Administration, NIS, LDAP (inc. AD 
integration), NFS, ZFS and VMWare and XEN virtualisation."

Best Regards,
Alex