Systems Administrator

An excellent opportunity for a system administrator (Hybrid) to join a leading global engineering Business with continuous development and training.

As a system administrator, you will be responsible for the daily support of our customers.

The role will involve mainly project work, but also providing support and acting upon and monitoring generated alerts, throughout the lifecycle of our customers' sites. Where issues arise that you cannot resolve, you will then be responsible for escalating them within the team to ensure a satisfactory resolution.

Benefits: system administrator

• Incentive schemes designed to reward individual contribution and performance
• 10% personal pension plan
• 33 days holiday
• Private Health Scheme (non-contributory for employees)
• Opportunity for international travel
• Life assurance x 6
• Working in a newly refurbished office environment

The Role: system administrator

• Participation in the design, tender, procurement and delivery phases of new projects.
• Participation in the installation/configuration of infrastructure for new customers.
• To oversee the performance of the infrastructure across the infrastructure managed services customer base.
• Monitor the performance of the servers, proactively identifying issues/abnormalities that may pose a threat to the customer's service.
• To review performance logs, analyse the performance, identify trends, patterns and detect irregular behaviour.
• Managing, monitoring, setting up, updating, enhancing, and modifying the parameters as the infrastructure and systems are updated and upgraded.
• Ensuring that the servers are backed up and, security measures are in place.
• Communicate with the customer to understand the underlying issue and provide timely feedback.

Essential Skills: system administrator

• Fluent in English (both spoken and written)
• Linux
• Red Hat
• Ansible
• Good Network skills (Firewalls & Switches)
• Windows Server Knowledge
• A team player.
• Qualified to a good degree level in any technical discipline (or to be able to show that you now possess these skills through extended experience)
• A willingness to travel to visit customer sites

?Experience: system administrator

• Have worked as a Systems Administrator or Engineer and have a minimum of 2-3 years' experience working with Linux.