We’re looking for a junior to mid ranking Systems Administrator to help design, implement, secure and maintain our systems for test, development and production environments.
To be successful you’ll have opinions and advocate for them, you’ll dig in and get the job done, you’ll work hard and to the highest standards – and all with a rev in your engine.
You’ll be involved in developing and overseeing the backup, replication and fail over strategies.
- Performance – identify and analyse the issues that hamper the performance of the system, and work with Development to recommend solutions for the issues.
- Support – work with the product team in code deployment, virtual servers, writing and modifying scripts for application deployments, system monitoring.
- Resilience – implement, develop and oversee the backup, replication and fail over strategies.
- Track Support – help to deliver motorsport events and supporting the Event Leader where necessary.
- Reporting – gathering, analysing and interpreting external and internal data and preparing reports and recommendations
- Everything else – performing other duties as maybe deemed suitable to the post, as agreed. Priorities are likely to vary from time to time
You’ll get significant technical and personal development opportunities including mentoring from our highly experienced and lovely team, access to high-end technology and equipment and work with our household name client list.
This is an office based role but there are opportunities to travel to and work at events around the world.
Any experience of the following will help:
- Experience of installing and supporting many Linux distributions, specifically Debian and Ubuntu.
- Physical networking and network protocols, services and security including TCP-IP, DNS, DHCP and NFS.
- Installing and supporting Windows distributions.
- Firewall and VPN technologies.
- Programming (Python, Bash) and writing in scripting languages.
- Container based solutions.
- Proactive monitoring solutions.
- CI and continuous workflow solutions.
- VMware/VSphere installations and support.
Don’t worry if you can’t point to direct experience of everything. Tell what you can point to and show us the desire to fill in the missing links.
We value curiosity, creativity and dedication: curiosity to find new routes, creativity to improve our tools, and dedication to deliver the best quality work for our customers every time when the pressure is on.
In this kind of environment, the ability to manage your own time and workload is essential.