Systems Administrator
Squiz is one of the world's leading open source software development companies. We have an international network of offices, in London, Australasia and Poland, and employ over 200 permanent members of staff.
Our web experience management suite, the Squiz Suite, is specifically designed for medium to large-sized organizations and is used by many of the world’s leading brands - including the University of Oxford, EMAP, Digital UK, The Australian Federal Government and the UK’s Electoral Commission and National Health Service.
Squiz are looking for an intelligent person with a broad range of skills, who would like to be a part of creating something unique and exciting with an expert team. If you’re the person that everybody comes to with their really hard problems, and would like to work with similar people, get in touch with us for the opportunity to work on the most exciting technical challenge of your career.
Position Purpose
A senior Linux systems administrator is required to join the busy, highly skilled engineering team in our London office.
The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing and running systems to meet constantly growing requirements – both internally and on behalf of our clients. You must be able to cover a wide spectrum of tasks, from hands on configuration of RedHat/CentOS Linux systems, storage and networks, scripting and automation, through to technology selection and systems design.
Requirements
- Enthusiasm and passion for open source technologies and everything about them
- Experience of running and tuning PHP based websites
- PostgreSQL experience
- Ability to ensure Internal and Clients’ systems are delivered from scalable and reliable platforms
- Ability to select best of breed technology
- Ability to create practical, supportable systems
Preferred experience and skills
- Unix/Linux management experience (Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD will be advantage)
- Familiarity (ideally, experience) with terms: high-availability, high-performance
- Web servers - apache is a must; lighttpd, ngix will be advantage; using Squid as reverse proxy
- Mail systems - postfix preferably; overall understanding how mail systems are working
- DNS systems - bind; overall knowledge how DNS systems are working
- Databases - PostgreSQL is a must, MySQL will be advantage; PostgreSQL replication and performance tuning
- Directory services, ldap – OpenLDAP
- Monitoring systems - cacti, nagios
- Hands-on experience with virtualization and cloud technologies
- Backups and DR solutions
- Experience in maintaining a variety of Open Source and free software projects
- Experience working with non-technical business people, capturing and communicating requirements and time scales is desirable
You will be joining a bunch of passionate, talented and enthusiastic people who thrive on producing award winning web solutions in an environment they truly love to be in. Recently mapped by Wired as part of London's Silicon Roundabout, "the ever-growing community of fun startups in London's Old Street area", this is a great opportunity to join the Shoreditch digital community. If this sounds like the right place and position for you then we’d love to hear from you. Fill in the form below to apply.
