Systems Administrator - Linux / Devops /Cloud - £50k to £75k - Hertfordshire

Global Market Leader seek a Mid to Senior Level Linux Systems Administrator / Devops Engineer to join their small Team of fellow Engineers / Sys Admins.

This is a Superb Role with massive scope to progress - that will lead to a long-term Career path

The Role is Office based (Head office is Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire - Metropolitan Line - London Underground / Chiltern Rail (Marylebone) – with an easy commute from Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, London, Middlesex and parts of Bedfordshire.

Please Note - Some security clearance is required - You will need to have been a resident of the UK for at least the past few years.. With Rights to Work etc (Timeframe is ideally 4 years, however there is some scope for 2-3 years plus)

The Role

You will be committed to quality - have a high attention to detail - work well with others.

You will be responsible for deployment, configuration and maintenance of Systems. The role has a wider scope to assist with all server-related tasks company wide, and work with the lead System Administrator and the Software Team on new solution designs.

The role generally requires someone with a technical implementation background in infrastructure with real world experience of delivering technical solutions.

What you are Responsible for (Some / Most of these – as you grow into the Role) -

Administer live database systems – MySQL / MongoDB / Linux

Setup / Configure new / existing database systems with master / slave replication

Conducting problem analysis and generating case documentation for escalation.

Backup of existing databases and logs.

Management of the IT ticket queue / Documentation of procedures/policies.

Management of Servers / Infrastructure (Mainly Linux with some Windows).

Implementation of security policies.

Maintaining and extending monitoring, metrics, and alerting systems using software platform Site24x7.

Provide on call support per rota (also provide escalation).

The Key Skills (A good understanding of Some / Most of these) -

• Excellent Linux skills over multiple distributions
• Excellent scripting skills in BASH or similar
• Some programming knowledge, however, would not expect this to be your strongest point - Php ideally
• AWS experience, ideally with a developer or similar qualification (not essential)
• Other cloud experience to some degree (Google or Azure)
• Some networking experience, but does not matter if limited to just cloud (i.e. not switches etc.)
• Some form of automation experience (Ansible or GitLab runners ideally - as long as you are strong at something in this space
• Does not need management skills

To Sum up - Skills used so you need to have a number of these

Linux administration - Debian / Ubuntu - Bash Scripting

Devops background

Database Administration - RDS / MySQL / MongoDB

AWS Experience - VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, etc

Cloud Computing - AWS / GCP / Azure

MySQL 5.5+ Administration.

User Authentication – LDAP / Kerberos

Virtualisation – VMWare /Hyper-V/Xen

Network Knowledge – TCP /UDP / VPN / DNS

WSUS & Active Directory.

Monitoring Solutions – Nagios / Cacti / Site24x7

Automation technologies - Ansible / Puppet / Chef.

• PHP knowledge