[linuxjobs] Linux Systems Administrator - Brighton, Permanent

[Iain Buclaw]

Hi,

We have an exciting opportunity for a Linux Systems Administrator to 
join a New Era, a market leader in the Educational Software industry. 
The position is based in Brighton, the leading E-learning city in the UK.

The successful candidate will join a team of two 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.

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with web platform 
experience to enjoy a stimulating and varied role. The position would 
involve working in a fast-paced environment encompassing many different 
technologies and provides the chance 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:
· Experience running scalable web platforms and associated software stacks
· Solid and proven experience of administering Linux machines (Ubuntu in 
particular)
· Good understanding of common application-layer network protocols (DNS, 
SMTP, HTTP, IMAP, etc.)
· Scripting in either Shell, Perl, Ruby or Python (experience with 
modern Perl would be particularly beneficial).
· Administration of relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL in 
clustered/replicated environments.
· Comfortable working in a datacentre environment
· Knowledge of LVM and RAID (hardware and/or software) management.

Desirable skills:
· Mail subsystems (exim)
· Experience of a using and supporting a Java environment and related 
technologies such as the JVM, Apache Tomcat, Jenkins and Maven.
· Understanding of BGP and OSPF using Juniper routers and managed 
switches, in addition to VPNs, VLANs and subnetting.
· Experience with virtualisation technologies such as KVM, Xen or VMWare.
· Experience with load balancing, high availability systems and clusters.
· Configuration management using Puppet.
· Comfortable with version control using Git and Subversion.
· Icinga/Nagios monitoring
· Clustered network storage (SANs, iSCSI, Ceph)

Salary based on experience. Please contact info at neweraed.co.uk for more 
information.


Regards,

-- 
Iain Buclaw
Systems Administrator
New Era Education UK
Registered Office: 130 Queens Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 3WB | Registered in England and Wales | Company Number: 3894476