Senior Systems Engineer

Brandwatch; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data services company in the United Kingdom is looking for an experienced systems engineer to manage their data centre operations. You will deploy and maintain Kubernetes clusters while collaborating with various teams on-site. The ideal candidate has a strong background in systems administration and experience with distributed systems. Remote work is possible for highly experienced candidates, but you must be within a 2-hour drive of the data centre in London. Join us and contribute to our innovative environment!

Qualifications

• Experience of systems administration, site reliability engineering, DevOps, or IT support.
• Experience with a distributed system, ideally Kubernetes.
• Installed and used at least one of Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Illumos or NetBSD.

Responsibilities

• Deploying and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.
• Full lifecycle management of all hardware in data centres.
• Diagnosing and fixing hardware and software issues.
• Working with onsite data centre staff to resolve issues.

Skills

Systems administration

Site reliability engineering

DevOps

IT support

Distributed systems

Scripting or programming

Linux

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux (mostly Debian)

Juniper networks

Virtualization (libvirt / kvm)

Puppet

NGINX

Job description

Overview

Brandwatch services to customers. The DCN team are responsible for the whole data centre stack up to Kubernetes. You will work closely with the data infrastructure team who look after our big data systems and our Developer platform and SRE teams that provide services on top of Kubernetes and monitoring infrastructure. We are open to remote working, if you are a highly experienced systems engineer, we can drop the need to visit UK data centres regularly, but the entire team are expected to help out with data centre work as required. Data Center is located in London. Must live within 2-hour drive.

Tech Stack

• Linux (mostly Debian)
• Juniper networks
• Virtualization (libvirt / kvm)
• Foreman
• Puppet
• PowerDNS
• NGINX
• Kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Deploying / maintaining Kubernetes clusters
• Full lifecycle management of all hardware in all data centres
• Linux provisioning and rebuilds
• Responding to monitoring alarms and tracking performance metrics
• Diagnose and fix hardware and software issues
• Actioning and resolving tickets from other Brandwatch engineers.
• Dealing with suppliers, checking in deliveries, processing RMAs and managing stock
• Working with onsite data centre staff to resolve environment and power issues
• Some Travelling between London Hayes and Maidstone (full EU driving license required)
• A desire to learn, the systems we use will change and evolve over time.

Qualifications

• Experience of systems administration, site reliability engineering, DevOps, IT support
• Experience with a distributed system (ideally Kubernetes)
• Installed and used at least one of Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Illumos or NetBSD
• Ability to script or program in any language
• Ability to lift 10 kg (racking servers if needed)

Brandwatch Value Statement

Brandwatch is the world's premier social suite, empowering over 7,500 of the world's most admired companies to understand and engage with customers at the speed of social. ... We reward creativity and value the lessons that come not only from success, but failure as well. If you've found our job opportunity interesting but you don't meet all of the requirements, it's still worth applying. We'd love to hear from you!

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