Senior Systems Engineer

Gigaclear; Oxford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading broadband infrastructure provider in the UK is looking for a skilled IT professional. The selected candidate will design and implement innovative physical and virtual infrastructures, ensuring reliability and performance in a 24/7 operational environment. Candidates should have expertise in virtualization and AWS. Competitive benefits including a generous pension and flexible working arrangements are offered.

Benefits

Generous employer pension up to 8% matched contribution

Income protection & life assurance

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Health cash plan

Unlimited access to online training

Qualifications

• Experience with virtualization platforms like VMware or Redhat Openshift.
• Knowledge of configuration management systems like Puppet or Ansible.
• Familiarity with core internet application protocols such as DHCP and DNS.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement physical and virtual infrastructure to meet business needs.
• Build and maintain reliable, resilient servers and systems.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rota for support.

Skills

Virtualization

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux Administration

AWS

PostgreSQL

Monitoring Systems

DevOps Tools

Job description

Overview

A role with plenty to innovate and develop to ensure we design and implement new physical and virtual infrastructure that meets business requirements and aligns to strategy and security.

Work with a diverse range of technologies including but not limited to: Virtualization, Infrastructure as Code, AWS, Containers, Linux, PostgreSQL, Monitoring and Cybersecurity.

You will build new servers / systems as well as ensure that all our existing ones are maintained, reliable and resilient and our applications are installed and operating smoothly.

As we continue to scale and mature there are always numerous innovative projects to work on to improve and upgrade technology as well as improve workflow and processes.

Note: this role is part of the 24/ 7 on call rota, although call outs are rare this would be 1 week in 4 and is renumerated separately.

Key areas we would love to see knowledge and understanding to discuss further would be:

• Virtualization - platforms such as Vmware / Redhat Openshift
• Kubernetes and Docker
• Configuration Management Systems Puppet / Ansible
• Linux Administration Redhat family OS, including RHEL, Alma and some legacy CentOS
• Core internet applications protocols DHCP / DNS
• Monitoring Systems Icinga2 / Elastic Stack / InfluxDB / Grafana
• Application and network security best practices SSH / Iptables / TLS
• AWS (EC2 / VPS / RDS/ EKS / S3)
• Terraform
• Databases PostgreSQL / MySQL
• CI/CD and DevOps Tools / principles

About Us

Gigaclear is a leading alternative operator of rural full fibre broadband networks in the UK. Offering customers a truly world class product, we are developing our fibre-to-the-premises broadband (FTTP / FTTH) infrastructure to some of the most difficult to reach areas of the UK, empowering those communities with broadband to rival any city.

Staff rewards, benefits and opportunities

We foster a collaborative, engaging culture that empowers staff to grow and maximise their skills. We want to challenge our people in a fair environment where hard work is rewarded and a path for progression is open to all.

• Generous employer pension; up to 8% matched contribution
• Income protection & life assurance
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), holiday purchase scheme and Yay Days!
• Health cash plan, 24/7 remote GP access and Employee Assistance Programme including counselling & legal advice
• Unlimited access to online training and development content via our Learning Management System
• Long service benefits and monthly employee recognition
• Enhanced maternity and paternity provisions
• Flexible working environment
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives and company funded social events

Our approach

Our approach is to work guided by our mission, vision and values.

Our Mission - Empowering communities with brilliant broadband

Our Vision - Connected Communities

Our Values - Own it, Find the Right Way, Work Together, Win Together