Systems Administrator - London, United Kingdom - Forfusion

Description

Clearance Level
DV Cleared- Salary Description
up to £49.5k + bonus + benefits- Region
Cheltenham, London, Manchester- Sector
Information Technology- Duration
Permanent- Start Date
ASAPForfusion is a leading technology consultancy; we take pride in delivering world-class services to our ever-growing client base.

We're looking for talented, enthusiastic, and resourceful individuals to join our team to deliver outstanding services and ensure a consistently high level of engagement with our customers.

Who Will Succeed in This Role?:

For this role, the client requires additional security checks to be carried out on you, so the successful individual
must already hold or be eligible to hold a UK DV level clearance.

Our engineers share a common set of characteristics and bring the experience that drives innovation and delivers customer value, in particular they:

• Have a good understanding of the technology industry, including current and emerging digital strategies, solutions, and trends.
• Understand the importance of customer SLA/KPI's and strive diligently to ensure these are met. An awareness of escalation procedures and best practices is also very important.
• Possess situational awareness to adapt and solve challenges from both business and technology perspectives.
• Display an ability to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic operational execution and delivery, including strong customer facing and team collaboration skills.
• Show empathy, curiosity, and a desire to challenge and constantly improve, acquire new skills and drive for results.

As a key member of our engineering team, you will display the following attributes:

• Excellent spoken and written English, able to clearly articulate ideas, issues and updates to customers and peers, coupled with a high degree of due diligence and attention to detail.
• Well organised, able to prioritise multiple work streams whilst maintaining the common sense to escalate when workloads may pose a risk to customer delivery and SLA's.
• Able to work well under pressure, doesn't get flustered and has a clear understanding of their own abilities.
• Customerservice oriented with a strong problemsolving attitude, alongside strong analytical skills and excellent conflict management skills.
• Able to think for yourself and able to effectively challenge both colleagues and customers when required to ensure the correct business outcomes.

What Knowledge, Qualifications And Experience Are Required?:
To be eligible for this role, you will have one or more of the following qualifications or equivalent skills:

• Linux Administrator/Redhat Administrator
• Strong understanding of Linux Operating System architecture (minimum of 5 years of experience operating Linux platforms).
• Indepth, handson UNIX/Linux system administration skills and experience in managing largescale distributed environments.
• Significant understanding of hardware, especially x86 platforms, including RAID architecture and file systems.

Exposure to the following is advantageous:

• Experience of storage environment protocols (NAS, SAN, RAID, distributed file system, object storage, Restful API, Amazon S3).
• Solid networking knowledge: lowlevel networking concepts, bridging, routing, VLAN, TCP/IP etc.
• Knowledge of High Availability environments (distributed system, load balancing, cloud platforms) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Scripting skills (Python, Perl, Shell), Automation (Saltstack, Ansible).
• Development skills in C/Java is beneficial.
• Knowledge of ITIL Problem and Change management processes.
• Knowledge of Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence).