Position: Junior Linux Systems Engineer

Job type: Full-time, Permanent ideally (willing to accept part time or fixed term applications).
Location: Based in Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14. Option to work from home once your probation period is complete.

As part of our continued growth we are looking for an Junior Linux Systems Administrator (SysAdmin) to join our existing small flexible team.

We aren’t expecting you to know everything but unlike our apprenticeship applicants we need someone that is willing to hit the ground running, already has some experience of supporting customers and working with Linux.

Responsibilities

Time will be spent doing project and support work.

• Project work includes new server builds, server reconfigurations and migrations of sites / applications.
• Support work includes dealing with outages, attacks on infrastructure and day to day enquiries from customers.

Required Skills

Attitude, flexibility, and the ability to learn new technologies quickly, are more important than years of experience, however you’ll need experience of at least some of the following:

• Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, CentOS, etc.)
• Webservers (e.g. Nginx, Apache, Lighttpd, etc.)
• Shell Scripting (sh, BASH, etc.)
• Working in a support environment
• Working in a team environment
• Excellent communication skills (written & oral)

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK

Desired Skills

Experience with the following would also be beneficial, but not required:

• PHP configuration (e.g. PHP-FPM, ModPHP, etc.)
• Version Control (e.g. Git, Subversion, etc.)
• SQL server (e.g. MySQL, Percona, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• TCP/IP Networking (IPv4 & IPv6)
• Public cloud services (e.g. AWS, GoogleCloud, Rackspace, etc.)
• Automation tools (e.g. Ansible, Vagrant, Puppet, Chef, etc.)
• Container technologies (e.g. Docker, LXC, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Virtualisation (e.g. VMware, Xen, KVM, Openstack, etc.)
• NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra, etc.)
• Programming (e.g. Python, PHP, Java, Perl, Ruby, etc.)
• Linux firewalling (e.g. iptables, UFW, Shorewall, etc.)
• High Availability and Load Balancing Technologies
• Out of Band Management (e.g. ILO, DRAC, etc.)
• DBA Skills (e.g. Replication, Optimisation, etc.)
• Email (e.g. Sendmail, Postfix, MX records, etc.)

Benefits

• Competitive salary (we know that this line is a cop out but as we hope you can see above, we aren’t looking to fill a specific role, we are looking for the right people to join our business. We haven’t had any complaints yet!)
• Pension matching up to 10%
• Subsidised restaurant and gym on-site
• Your choice of hardware (laptops, monitors, keyboards and mice can be personal things in our industry)
• Flexibility around working from home
• Training budget to keep your skills up to date
• Conference budget to keep your ear to the ground
• Join the team at the many fun events such as hackathons and Electromagnetic Field.

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