System Engineer (Linux)
Location: London or Dublin
Salary: £35,000.00 – £55,000.00 Per Annum
Job Level: Mid-Senior Level
Start Date: Immediately
Education Level: Bachelor’s Degree
Industry: Computer Software / SaaS
Function: IT, Development & Engineering
Description
The company makes it strangely simple for businesses to talk to clients, customers and colleagues, wherever they are. This is global communication redefined, free from the tyranny of PSTN lines.
The company is the best-kept secret in cloud communications, but they’re ready for their close up! That’s where you come in. As they spread the word and bring more customers aboard, they need a System Engineer / Linux Expert to join their Infrastructure team in London or Dublin, Ireland.
Your work on the analysis and deployment of different systems for corporate and production usage on systems distributed over Europe, the Americas and Asia. As their System Engineer / Linux Expert you take part of challenging projects to scale up our infrastructure and new standards for building bricks used to run the products and services of the company.
You would also ensure the uptime of the company’s Infrastructure by making the right choice at all stages of the project lifecycle. You can for example define hardware needs and discuss design choices, work on optimizing and keeping in sync the configurations across the different platforms but also securing and improving the monitoring around those tools.
You are part of a highly skilled and trained team with a vast variety of responsibilities and broad knowledge. You’ll be working hand to hand with other Systems engineers but also Network and Switching Engineers within the Infrastructure team and in close relation with project managers, developers and NOC members.
You have a transversal view on all projects and could be involved in design discussions from other team’s projects as well
You’ll work as part of a young and vibrant bunch of people across San Francisco, Austin, Los Angeles, London, Brussels, Iasi, Seoul and Hong Kong.
Close your eyes and imagine…
That you perform the following for the core business of the company and also for internal systems:
Systems analysis
- Analyse the needs of the company in terms of systems
- Make up the best solution
Implement it!
System maintenance
- Maintain the systems security and integrity
- Improve and maintain the current infrastructure in order to reduce costs and increase capabilities of the systems
Systems deployment
- Plan and deploy systems following best practices
- Act as an escalation point for IT operational team
- Manage internal and external projects on an ad hoc basis involving various suppliers (including hardware suppliers, data centres)
To bring the win, you’ll have…
- Master degree in IT or equivalent by experience
- At least three years’ experience in the IT industry
- More than at ease with Linux systems & services
- Excellent knowledge of scripting languages like bash, perl & others Hardware architecture has no secret for you
- Recognized knowledge of MySQL, database operations and Virtualization
- Experience with database management and storage systems
- Networking and security is part of your daily life
- Self-motivation – your team can rely on you to get the job done
- Ability to prioritize in a dynamic, ever-changing environment
- You have great communications skills
- You are creative and able to work in highly critical situation
- Excellent written and oral skills in English, any other languages are always an asset
- Strong identification with the company’s strangely simple principles
Sound good? They’re offering…
- A young, fun and international environment in their London or Dublin office
- Competitive salary
- Frequent company events and socials
- Free healthy snacks and drinks, organic coffee for the caffeine addicts!
- Work laptop and mobile phone including monthly plan
Location: London or Dublin
Salary: £35,000.00 – £55,000.00 Per Annum
Job Level: Mid-Senior Level
Start Date: Immediately
Education Level: Bachelor’s Degree
Industry: Computer Software / SaaS
Function: IT, Development & Engineering