Senior IT Engineer

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

Job summary

A growing technology company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Systems Engineer to manage and monitor installed systems and infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have experience with Puppet, networking fundamentals, and scripting in languages like Bash and Python. Responsibilities include ensuring systems availability and maintaining various applications. The role requires immediate availability and offers a salary range of £40,000 to £50,000 along with benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience working with private cloud object storage platforms like Ceph/Openstack.
• Exposure to VoIP networks or telecommunications protocols.
• Excellent communication skills both orally and in writing.

Responsibilities

• Managing and monitoring all installed systems and infrastructure.
• Installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems.
• Ensuring the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.

Skills

Experience in a company with less than 50 employees

Configuration management with Puppet

Basic understanding of Cisco and HPE Networking infrastructure

Working knowledge of Virtualization solutions

Scripting experience in Bash, Perl, or Python

Understanding of networking fundamentals

Experience setting up monitoring solutions like Nagios

Tools

NGINX

HAproxy

MySQL

VMware ESXi

Job description

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.

What they can offer you 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