Systems Administrator - Newmarket, United Kingdom - Aluminati Network Group Ltd

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Company Profile

If you are a sophisticated sales professional, this is a very exciting chance to join a growing EdTech/CommunityTech sector leader.

Aluminati is a mission driven company where we help educational institutions and companies around the world unlock the opportunities from within their community for the benefit of their members.

Our clients commonly leverage our service for internal peer-to-peer mentoring and networking, employment opportunities and succession planning activities.

With over 250,000 demanding users, we maintain a server infrastructure which has been designed for high availability.

With thousands of graduates joining each year, we are looking for a talented systems administrator who would relish the challenge of supporting our customers and help scale up our service as we grow.

Responsibilities:

• Administration, maintenance and monitoring of remote servers (Linux)
• Research and development of new systems.
• Out of hours maintenance work
• Oncall emergency response and recovery of servers
• 3rd line user support.
• Support/maintenance of office/staff systems

(Windows/Mac/Linux desktops and laptops, Linux/Windows servers)

• Some travel required (infrequent visits to datacentres)

Skills:


Required

• Postfix (or equivalent strong SMTP server experience)
• Dovecot (IMAP/POP3) (or related
• Courier, Cyrus, UW)
• MySQL with Replication / Mirroring
• Apache2 (including mod_rewrite and virtual hosts)
• Networking (TCP/IP, SSL, switches, DNS etc)
• High Availability Systems / Load Balancing
• Server hardware and technologies (eg RAID, Load Balancing)
• Server Performance Analysis / Troubleshooting
• BASH/Perl

Highly Desirable

• Windows Server/Active Directory
• Virtualisation (VirtualBox, LXC)
• Deployment automation (eg Puppet)
• Samba

Beneficial

• C/C++
• PHP/HTML
• BIND
• Haproxy
• CISCO switches/routers
• Firewalls/IPTables
• GlusterFS
• NFS
• Rsync
• System monitoring (Zabbix/ Nagios)

Qualifications / Experience:

• Systems administration experience, preferably in an ISP/ESP/Datacentre environment or similar with at least several hundred users if not several thousand.
• Ability to cope with a system architecture consisting of several servers in a High Availability configuration.
• Very comfortable with emergency response and out of hours requirements
• Degree qualification desirable but not mandatory.
• Fluent fast English required.

Character qualities:

• Highly responsible with absolute integrity
• Works well under pressure
• Motivated selfstarter who manages own time well
• Communicates with people of various levels of technical proficiency
• Good multitasking abilities with strong ability to quickly and correctly prioritise tasks in complex situations
• Learns quickly with a high level of interest in the industry to keep up with rapidly changing technological developments.

Salary:
£30,000.00-£40,000.00 per year


Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Flexitime
• Onsite parking
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Performance bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Newmarket: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

- system administration: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location:
Hybrid remote in Newmarket