Description
Our Client is currently looking for a Dev Ops Engineer/Systems Administrator for a role in Lisburn, Northern Ireland.They are looking for a good team player with a postive enthusiastic attitude, who copes well underpressure meeting deadlines and solving complex problems using creative solutions. Someone who has great communication skills and is adaptive; able to pick up new techniques.the perfect candidate will have motivation to create high quality products, systems while demonstrating initiative and attention to detail with high levels of ownership and commitment, whilst stil being quality focused.
The successful candidate will work as part of a small flexible team to take the administration of multiple customer facing servers to the next level. This will involve coordinating with multiple application development teams as well as field support engineers. Flexibility to work outside of normal working hours is essential.
The role will include facilitating and collaborating with development teams on various sites to improve the applications and to solve operation issues, researching and recommending innovative data migration, backup and mirroring solutions, performing research into new technologies, tools and processes to define the strategy going forward, defining company standards, processes, procedures, developing automation to reduce downtime during upgrades, so that continuous delivery can be achieved, deploying solution to ensure developer test environments can be easily spawned and that they reflect production environment and ensuring appropriate backup and recovery mechanisms are in place and functioning.
You will be expected to monitor customer servers to ensure high availability and reliability of all resources and processes, Identifying opportunities to optimize performance and coordinate with development teams where appropriate, perform capacity plan to ensure solutions will scale, deploy new releases and improvements to a number of servers, which may include Installing and configuring new or existing applications or services, perform regular security audits to identify any possible intrusions or weaknesses and ensure they are resolved in a timely manner to comply with customer contracts, apply system patches and upgrades and provide emergency support in the event of a failure, which may be out of normal working hours.
To apply for this role you MUST have;
A 3rd level qualification in Computer Science, or equivalent
At least 3 years- experience in system administration
Experience of Linux server administration
Good knowledge of data backup & systems security
Ability to develop scripts, including bash and/or python
Good knowledge of relational database administration
Experience of Virtualisation and Cloud Computing
Knowledge of networking protocols and administration
Fluent in English, both written and verbal.
Excellent presentation skills
It would help if you had a;
Familiarity with Ubuntu, Redhat and CentOS
Experience with MySQL
Experience with Amazon web services
Familiarity with Puppet, Nagios/Munin, Apache and Tomcat
Experience with Continuous integration tools such as Jenkins
Knowledge on configuring firewalls and VPNs
Experience working in an agile environment