Systems Administrator - Manchester

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Position: Systems Administrator

Location: Manchester (City Centre) M1

Salary: 35000 - 45000 Per Annum

Job type: Permanent

Description

Our client is a successful, innovative software development company based in Manchester City Centre that focuses on eGovernment and financial sector products and services.

Due to continued growth, we are looking for a skilled Systems Administrator with a can-do attitude to join the team to help support the Companys office and datacentre infrastructure, and contribute to ongoing improvements in system development.

You will work with the Companys Infrastructure Manager to run business-as-usual operations and design and implement new infrastructure solutions for the Companys software development and production environments.

This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the Companys move to DevOps and delivery of a Software Defined Datacentre for its enterprise-level services.

We are looking for someone with a strong background in IT and Computing, with practical hardware and software experience in:

Linux Server Administration (especially Ubuntu/Debian/CentOS)

Mac OSX Desktop and Server

Databases - MySQL, MariaDB, NoSQL clusters

Storage ZFS, NFS, replication and backups

Networking, including Firewalls, switches, cabling, Ethernet, fibre and wireless communications

Internet - DNS, Mail, Apache platforms, secure sockets and certificates

Virtualisation - AWS and similar

VOIP/SIP

Command-line scripting and automated deployment

Security hardening of systems

Anti-malware, anti-spam, anti-phising and intrusion detection

Logging, monitoring and alerting systems

The role will require a high level of responsibility, an on-call schedule and will require some out-of-hours work.

Good working knowledge of ISO 27001 and CyberEssentials, DevOps principles, Containers, Agile software development methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment is a distinct advantage.

Familiarity with OpenStack, Blue-Green deployment and automated configuration management is desirable.

Additional Information

Benefits

Pension, Parking, Childcare Vouchers, Other(discuss with your HH Account manager)

Key skills

Linux, Mac OSX, MySQL, Shell scripting, storage systems, networking, VOIP, security, ISO 27001, Internet services, virtual computing, AWS, OpenStack, containers, DevOps, hardware and software administration