Systems Administrator

AetherCore; Portugal; Remote; EUR 42,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

English lessons provided

Competitive salary package

Job summary

AetherCore is seeking a talented Systems Administrator to join our Infrastructure Team in a fully remote role based in Portugal. You will manage a mix of physical and virtual infrastructure, work with cutting-edge tech across Europe, and ensure high availability in a high-traffic environment with hundreds of millions of page impressions monthly.

You will collaborate with developers to design fast, scalable systems, script for automation, and continuously optimize performance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience administering Linux/UNIX systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode.
• Container technologies: Docker, podman, LXC, Kubernetes.
• Understanding of PHP and configuring it.
• DevOps experience desirable.
• Networking: HAProxy, ingress, firewall.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, DNS fundamentals.
• Experience with Nginx, PHP, MySQL, Redis, and Varnish is a plus.
• Strong communication and time-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Build, install, configure, upgrade & maintain both physical and virtual infrastructure.
• Ensure systems are delivered quickly with high availability.
• Collaborate with development team to design fast, scalable systems.
• Identify and remove performance bottlenecks in current systems.
• Apply and update system upgrades, firmware and infrastructure changes.
• Proactively monitor health and configuration; take corrective actions.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support on a rotating basis.

Skills

Linux/UNIX administration

Shell scripting

DevOps experience

Communication skills

Time management

Problem solving

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Nginx

MySQL

Redis

Varnish

HAProxy

iptables/nftables

PHP

Job description

We are currently looking for a talented and ambitious Systems Administrator to join our Infrastructure Team. As part of the Infrastructure Team you will get the chance to work with a wide array of cutting-edge technologies and help maintain our customers' platforms. We work with some of the largest publishers across Europe and operate in a high traffic environment, handling 100's millions of page impressions each month.

Requirements

• Build, install, configure, upgrade & maintain both physical and virtual infrastructure.


• Ensuring that our systems are consistently delivered quickly and with high availability.


• Working with the development team to design fast, scalable systems.


• Scripting/automation skills: BASH/sh, PHP, Python, Perl etc.


• Removing performance bottlenecks from current systems.


• Apply and update system upgrades, firmware and infrastructure changes.


• Proactively monitor and manage the health and configuration of the system. Takes corrective actions based upon Standard Operating Procedures.


• Must be available to work outside of normal business hours to fulfil production and project needs, provide 24x7 on-call support on a rotating basis.

Requirements

• You must have 3+ years experience administering Linux/UNIX systems.


• Familiarity with the various cloud computing platforms, Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean and Linode etc.


• Understanding of container technologies: containers (Docker, podman, LXC), Kubernetes


• Understanding of the PHP language, how best to set up and configure.


• DevOps experience is desirable.


• Networking tools/technologies: HAProxy, ingress (containers), routing, firewall (iptables or nftables).


• You must understand TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP and DNS well enough to debug common problems.


• We work with a variety of different systems and customers, where creative problem solving is an important skill to have.


• We use Nginx, PHP, MySQL, Redis, and Varnish extensively. If you have experience working with any of these platforms, it's a distinct advantage.


• Ability to adapt to new technologies.


• You will be working with several groups of developers so you must have excellent communication and time-management skills.

Benefits

• Competitive salary package, contingent on experience.


• Fully remote work available.


• English lessons provided.

If you have a Github account, have contributed to open source projects, have a personal project of which you're particularly proud or are currently getting neck-deep in a new tech about which you're really excited, tell us all about it in your cover letter!