About the job

This position is designated as hybrid.

Are you a Systems Administrator specializing in server administration in AWS, Azure and VMWare environments?

Are you looking for a rewarding career with a stable organization? If you answered YES to both these questions, we may have your new opportunity!

We are looking for an IT professional with excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills with a proven experience of innovative and reliable Linux system administration, particularly Ubuntu or other Debian-based Linux (exposure to other UNIX systems such as Solaris is an advantage)

You must be residing in UK and have the right to work in UK to apply for this job.

What you ‘ll do:

• As a Systems Administrator, you will be responsible for the updating, maintaining, and the security of a number of Linux servers, as well as occasional Windows-based servers as required, together with administering and maintaining a number of databases.
• You will also be required to support our client’s authentication mechanisms.

Key Skills and Experience:

• AWS experience including:
  • • Managing user identity, AWS permissions, and security in the cloud
    • Provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS (Amazon Web Services)
    • Using features such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Security (IAM, Policies), CloudWatch, CloudFront, Relational Database Service (RDS), Elastic Load Balancers (ELB), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Experience of server administration in virtualised environments (VMWare primarily)
• Experience in using AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS OpsWorks or other automation technologies to produce stacks of AWS resources that can be deployed in an automated, repeatable fashion
• Experience of using a full suite of configuration management and compliance tools, including managing code compliance, to produce OS and service configurations that can be deployed and maintained in an automated, repeatable fashion (e.g. Chef, Cookstyle, Chefspec, InSpec)
• Experience of administration and security in Apache based web systems, UNIX, Mac and Windows systems integration
• Experience of authentication protocols, ideally Shibboleth/SAML, LDAP and Kerberos
• Excellent shell scripting skills (BASH). Writing and maintaining administrative scripts and tools
• Experience of Linux patch/updates management and providing support for UNIX based production applications, including installation of open source software from source code
• Demonstrable experience of administering web application and database servers and with messaging application servers and other Internet computing technologies, including load balancing
• Experience of managing and maintaining MySQL databases

Salary

From £31k £43k

If this all sounds intriguing to you, apply today!

Location: United Kingdom