Linux Systems Administrator/AWS Cloud Engineer

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Linux Systems Administrator/AWS Cloud Engineer - £40k - £50k - Leeds, West Yorkshire

Full-time/Permanent

Excellent benefits!

Work/Life balance

Regular Social Events

Unlimited tea and coffee

Lunch on the company each month

Company laptop with multiple monitors

Bonus Scheme

Pension Scheme

25 annual holidays

Annual reviews/career progression opportunities

Role also available in the Harrogate office

The Role

This is your opportuntiy to join a multi-award winning digital agency based in the heart of Leeds. They are a privately owned, specialist digital agency who have been delivering cutting edge digital projects since 2004. They have grown in size, turnover and stature every year and work with an impressive portfolio of clients such as the Post Office, M&S, Ping, PizzaExpress, Hi-Tec and more! Colourful office space with a fantastic culture and team spirit.

Due to rapid growth, a new space has opened up for a Systems Administrator/AWS Cloud Engineer. The successful candidate will largely be responsible for Looking after all environments from development through to client cloud infrastructure, taking on a broad role in the company. This brand new role is one which will quickly evolve, while also giving the chosen candidate a chance to put their mark on things. You will define how the company operates and create the processes and standards.

Over time the role will expand from a more traditional System Administrator role, through to a DevOps Engineer. This means that the testing, deployment and monitoring elements of our work will transition across to this role or team.

Essential

- Solid Cloud/AWS Knowledge (currently utilizing the following services: EC2, lambda, API gateway, ELB, RDS including Aurora clusters, S3, Cloudfront, VPC, Route53, Elasticache Redia shards/replicas, CloudWatch alarms, logs and metrics, SES).

- Linux administration (RHEL/CentOS) - SELinux, user/group management, logging (and roation), repository and package management.

- Virtualisation (Xenserver, Docker, Vargant).

- Bash Scripting skills.

- Basic networking knowledge.

Desirable

- LAMP stack.

- Web server configuration (Apache, Nginx).

- Configuration Management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet or SaltStack).

- CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Bitbucket, Capistrano).

We do not expect candidates to meet all the criteria outlined above! If you wish to apply, be quick - this vacancy is generating considerable interest in the market. My client will be alotting a deadline date for all applications soon. Click 'apply' or you can send your CV directly to me at [email protected]. OR you can call me directly on (0191) 261 32 58 to discuss the role further and other options.

**My client is unable to provide sponsorship**

Looking forward to hearing from you!