IT Systems Administration

A unique and exciting opportunity to join one of Cambridge's leading "scale-up" businesses. 
We are looking for a skilled DevOps / System Administrator with a broad range of experience across infrastructure, software, IT and IT security/cyber. 

On offer is hybrid working with close access from the A14. 
This buisess builds and delivers software and services that truly changes peoples lives! 

Details as follows: 

Key responsibilities:

• Manage and maintain hosting sites to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and security.
• Administer databases to support the storage and retrieval of educational content, user data, and other critical information.
• Implement and maintain backup solutions to safeguard against data loss and ensure business continuity.
• Conduct regular security assessments, vulnerability scans, and penetration tests to identify and address potential security risks.
• Monitor system logs, analyse security incidents, and respond to incidents in a timely manner.
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement proactive measures to prevent downtime.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate best practices and support the development and deployment of new features and enhancements.
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices to continuously improve our infrastructure and processes.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a system administrator or similar, with a focus on hosting sites, databases, and information security.
• Proficiency in administering Linux server environments.
• Strong understanding of information security principles, standards, and best practices. Experience with ISO 27001 is highly advantageous.
• Strong knowledge of web hosting technologies, including Apache, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, Django and PWAs, their rolling updates, red/black deployments and roll-backs.
• Experience with virtualisation technologies such as Docker and with continuous integration pipelines (e.g. Bitbucket pipelines) is a plus.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform and/or hosting solutions such as Rackspace, SiteGround, Ionos or similar.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, effective communication and collaboration.
• Commitment to upholding security best practices and data privacy standards.