systems engineer

Brandwatch; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company based in the UK seeks a Systems Engineer to manage its data center operations while working closely with the data infrastructure and SRE teams. Candidates should have extensive experience in systems administration and familiarity with technologies such as Kubernetes and Linux. This role offers flexibility for remote work but requires some onsite presence and may involve travel. The ideal candidate is proactive and eager to adapt to evolving systems needs.

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).

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.

Skills

Systems administration

Site reliability engineering

DevOps

IT support

Scripting or programming

Experience with distributed systems

Ability to lift 10 kg

Tools

Linux

Kubernetes

Juniper networks

Virtualization

Foreman

Puppet

PowerDNS

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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