Job Description
Vacancy Name: Senior Systems Engineer
Employment Type Full-Time
Location Home
Type of Vacancy Permanent
Working within a small team to build and support complex server, database, and cloud infrastructures in both green and brown field environments, following design documentation and industry best practices.
Collaborating with colleagues to quickly and efficiently expedite the resolution of any issues encountered, doing so in a logical and methodical manner.
Work pro-actively in the management and monitoring of customer environments to prevent issues and outages happening in the first place.
Flexibility in your approach to work and be a team player, where everyone pitches in to get the job done.
Dealing professionally with customers directly.
About You
• You will have strong Linux skills, familiarity with Microsoft platforms and be comfortable working on both platforms.
• Knowledge and experience of databases such as MySQL, MS SQL, PSQL and Oracle is beneficial.
• You should be competent with TCP/IP networking and able to perform initial analysis and troubleshooting of networking issues before handing to dedicated network engineers.
• Experience in supporting multiple tier architectures is useful as we have a wide of range of platforms to support.
• Knowledge of web hosting platforms such as Apache/IIS will be very useful.
• You should have experience of scripting tools such as shell scripts, PowerShell, Ruby, Bash & Python. You should be familiar with virtualisation platforms, high availability solutions and load balancing, such as VMWare, clustering, VTMs, HAP Roxy.
• Experience in supporting hardware such as servers and SAN/NAS devices would be a benefit.
• Skills in public, private and hybrid clouds would be very useful as we have a diverse infrastructure to support.