[lavoro] Systems Administrator

Our Company Namesco Ltd is looking for a Systems Administrator

Job Information

Job Title: System Administrator
Location: Office based in London

Your usual hours of work will be from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday to Friday inclusive. However these may be subject to alteration in accordance with the dictates of the business. You are entitled to a one hour unpaid lunch break, which is normally to be taken between 12:00 noon and 2:00 p.m., but depending on shift and cover patterns may have to be taken at other convenient times.

Job description

You will be responsible, on a day-to-day basis, for managing technical architectures that deliver Namesco's Shared Hosting Products. This includes making sure that all services are available for 100% of the time as well as making sure that the services are optimised to serve as quickly as possible. Another important part of the role is to liaise with other departments in the company including Development and Support, to help resolve issues and identify areas that require work. This includes producing tools to enable the support department to troubleshoot problems without escalating them.

You should have a minimum of 10 years experience in a systems administration role and a technical related degree is preferred. You should be a highly proactive individual who can create resilient, scalable and innovative platforms from design through implementation, administration and future development. You will be comfortable working on projects both on your own and working as part of a team.

In the performance of your duties, you will be expected to use your best endeavours to promote and maintain the interests and reputation of the Company at all times.

As a Senior System Administrator, you could also be requested to act as a Project Manager and to coordinate groups of people who work on projects, ensuring that the department's SLAs are consistently met and, wherever possible, exceeded. In addition you could be asked to play a major part in driving change and improvement initiatives, as well as coaching and advising staff.

Some of the responsibilities will include:

• Supporting existing platforms
• Ensuring 24/7/365 uptime of systems and services
• Maintain and install Linux (Centos) servers
• Demonstrate expert knowledge of the systems and processes
• Act as referral point to help staff resolve queries and problems
• Act as a channel for escalating issues from the team to senior management
• Document solutions and builds to provide a knowledge base to other administrators
• Train and share knowledge of implemented and maintained systems with other departmental staff
• Resolve escalated issues using our internal issue tracker
• Develop new products or services that would help the company be more successful
• Identify areas that need to be upgraded, then plan and implement
• Suggest and implement new approaches and architectural improvements
• Review system logs and monitor systems
• Join the on-call rota to provide out of hours emergency support
• Travel to various offices and datacentres when required
• Ensure the smooth daily running of and upgrades to web, ftp, mail, dns and other services
• Ensure sufficient capacity and performance is available for all systems
• Comply with Health and Safety regulations, ensuring safety of self and others at all times
• Liaise with suppliers regarding their products and services
• Keep abreast and informed of current I.T. technologies

Required skills

• Very strong IT skills in an internet environment
• Resilient with the ability to problem solve
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Operating Systems: Significant experience with Linux
• Languages: Bash, PHP, others helpful
• Strong clustering knowledge of both applications and hardware (SAN, NAS)
• Strong experience working with MySQL, Apache, Exim, PHP
• Very good Project Management skills
• Good TCP/IP and networking knowledge
• Good knowledge of High Availability systems and load balancing
• Strong firewall and security skills
• Full UK Driving licence

Key competencies

• Delivering business results
• Optimising budgets and resources
• Team working
• Self motivation
• Attention to detail
• Decision making
• Bringing innovation to problem solving
• Excellent communication

Desirable competencies

• People leading and coordination
• Developing others
• Ability to work well under pressure
  

Send your Cv to jobs@names.co.uk​