Senior System Administrator / SysOps Engineer

TN United Kingdom; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior System Operations & System Administrator to join their innovative team. This remote role focuses on managing and optimizing hosting infrastructure, ensuring high performance and security for web services. You'll have the opportunity to automate processes, enhance security measures, and contribute to building new infrastructure for upcoming products. With a flexible schedule and career growth opportunities, this position is perfect for a proactive individual eager to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Remote work with flexible schedule

Career growth opportunities

Travel with CEO to industry events

Participation in well-known brand projects

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a senior System Administrator.
• Experience with web/cloud hosting and configuration management tools.
• Proficient in scripting and automation for operational tasks.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain hosting infrastructure ensuring high availability.
• Optimize configurations for stability and speed.
• Automate tasks to improve efficiency and enhance security.

Skills

System Administration

Configuration Management (Puppet, Ansible, Chef)

Monitoring Solutions (Nagios, Prometheus, ELK Stack)

Database Management (SQL, NoSQL)

Scripting (Bash, Python)

Networking Knowledge

Security Best Practices

Disaster Recovery Solutions

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

cPanel

Plesk

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

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Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

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Job Description:

TechBiz Global is a leading recruitment and software development company. Our diverse, globally distributed team provides IT recruitment, outstaffing, outsourcing, software development, and different consulting services with a primary focus on making our partners achieve their business goals successfully.

With headquarters in Germany we have successful clients all over the world. We can understand your unique needs. Our team has hands-on experience with the challenges that come with rapid growth and the IT sector. That’s why all of our offerings are built with a tech mindset.

We are looking for a Senior System Operations & System Administrator for our client in a remote role. Join us to create cutting-edge solutions that drive significant business impact.

Responsibilities:

Manage and maintain our hosting infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and security of our web services.

Optimize configurations for stability, speed, and manageability.

Automate manual tasks to improve efficiency and reliability.

Enhance security measures and implement best practices.

Research, design, and develop new approaches to improve infrastructure.

Document research findings and share knowledge across teams.

Actively contribute to building new hosting infrastructure for upcoming products.

Engage in technical and soft process improvements to enhance team efficiency.

Requirements:

At least 3 years of experience as a senior System Administrator

Previous work experience in a web/cloud hosting company is a must

Configuration Management Tools (preferable: Puppet, any other like Ansible, or Chef is OK). Virtualization and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Experience with monitoring and logging solutions like Nagios, Prometheus, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), or similar tools to monitor system health and diagnose issues

Knowledge of security best practices, including securing servers and applications, managing firewalls and intrusion detection systems, and conducting security audits

Experience with cPanel Shared Hosting administration

Experience with Plesk Shared Hosting administration

Networking Knowledge.

Understanding of network protocols (TCP / IP, HTTP / HTTPS, DNS, SSH, FTP) and network security practices.

Database Administration. Familiarity with database management, preferable: SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL). Will be plus: NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra)

Scripting and Automation proficiency (Bash, Python) to automate operations

Disaster Recovery and Backup Solutions

Proficiency in English , sufficient for reading technical documentation and communicating with the team.

Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Fully independent, working from home, with can do it-attitude

Nice to Have:

Experience with CloudLinux OS (LVE, CageFS, PHP Selector, etc.)

Cloud Services Proficiency (any of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)

Containerization and Orchestration (any of Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm)

CI / CD Pipeline Creation and Management (any of Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI)

Proficiency in additional languages.

What is offered:

Remote work with a flexible schedule (UAE time).

Career growth with access to training and also travel along with the CEO to key industry events to source new products

International team and participation in well known brand projects in our region.