Senior IT Engineer

Liberty Resourcing; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Resourcing seeks an experienced Systems Administrator in London to manage systems and infrastructure for their agile communications technology client. You’ll collaborate directly with the CTO and report to the Senior Systems Engineer.

The ideal candidate will have solid experience in configuration management and networking fundamentals, plus the ability to work immediately. The role offers a salary of up to £50,000 for 35 hours per week, with potential benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience in a company with less than 50 employees.
• Immediate availability is a must.
• Detail-oriented with excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Managing and monitoring all installed systems and infrastructure.
• Installing, configuring, and maintaining operating systems and application software.
• Ensuring high levels of systems and infrastructure availability.

Skills

Configuration management with Puppet

Basic understanding of Cisco and HPE Networking infrastructure

Working knowledge of VMWare ESXi

Scripting experience in shell (Bash, SH, etc)

Understanding of networking fundamentals

Experience with monitoring solutions like Nagios

Tools

Linux-based operating systems (Ubuntu/Debian)

Dell Server Hardware

MySQL/MariaDB

uWSGI

VMware ESXi

Job description

Our client is an agile communications technology company that has developed innovative and market-leading platforms. They are a small company with a huge wealth of experience in telecommunications and support live mobile applications and services for their customers.

You will work alongside real experts and be customer facing. The office is based in the technology hub in London and the company has exciting plans for the future.

ESSENTIAL BEFORE YOU APPLY

• Experience in a company with less than 50 employees
• Configuration management with Puppet.
• Basic understanding of configuration and management of Cisco and HPE Networking infrastructure (ASA, Routers, Switches)
• Working knowledge of Virtualization solutions, VMWare ESXi a plus.
• Installing, configuring, tuning and maintaining NGINX, HAproxy, Python/uWSGI, PHP-FPM and MySQL.
• Scripting experience in shell (Bash, SH, etc), Perl or Python
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (VLANs, Routing, BGP)
• Experience setting up and using monitoring solutions and graphing tools such as Nagios and Munin/Cacti.

You must be available immediately.

Salary of up to £40-50,000 plus benefits.

You are required to work a minimum of 35 hours per week, 9.30 am to 5.30 pm.

What they need from you

To work with the Senior Systems Engineer, reporting directly into the CTO. To succeed in this role, you will need to be a detail-oriented and a self-starter who loves to learn. You will have excellent communication skills both orally and in writing.

Main responsibilities

• Managing and monitoring all installed systems and infrastructure
• Installing configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools
• Ensuring the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability

Software & Applications

• Linux based operating systems (primarily Ubuntu LTS/Debian)
• Dell Server Hardware support and management
• Puppet (2.7+)
• MySQL/MariaDB (Replication)
• Bash, Python
• uWSGI
• VMware ESXi
• Experience working with private cloud object storage platforms (Ceph/Openstack)
• Experience in VoIP networks or telecommunications protocols