Graduate / Junior Linux Systems Administrator

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DESCRIPTION

Do you want to kick-start your career as a Systems Administrator? Do you want to work for an international retailer with a strong track record of sustained growth? Do you love Linux, want to work with it on a daily basis, and want to grow your knowledge and expertise? If you have answered yes to the above we would love to hear from you! It is an exciting time as we look to rapidly grow both Mobile Fun and our sister company, magic42, our web development agency.

You will join and support an expert IT infrastructure team consisting of the CTO, the Head of IT, the Systems Manager and our Support Technician who will all support and train you. The team are responsible for managing our network infrastructure of both physical and virtual servers (mostly running Ubuntu Linux). In addition, you will assist in supporting the Company’s day to day IT needs, and also support the Dev Team with the deployment of new applications and systems.

This position will be ideal for a Computer Science graduate with a demonstrable passion for infrastructure and Linux or would suit a junior candidate who has had 1-2 years of relevant work experience looking for great career development.

You will get to work with numerous Sys Admin / DevOps technologies including but not limited to:

Ubuntu / Debian Linux, KVM / Proxmox, PFSense Firewalls, Puppet, Samba, MySQL / MariaDB, Apache, PHP, various AWS Services, Nginx, Git, Vagrant, Virtualbox, Asterisk, to name a few!

REQUIREMENTS

Knowledge, keen interest, skills or hands on experience in any number of the following:

- Ubuntu Linux command-line (including bash scripting)

- Linux server administration

- Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, etc

- Firewall configuration and network services: DHCP, VPNs, -

proxy services, etc.

- Understanding of linux servers and their operation

- Apache configuration/administration

- MySQL knowledge and database administration

- IT support skills and keen interest in Opensource and new technologies

- Attention to detail and methodical approach to problem solving

- Configuration management: shell scripting, puppet, ansible, docker etc.

- Git skills

BENEFITS

This is an excellent career opportunity for an individual with passion and enthusiasm for Linux, who wishes to gain valuable experience at an award winning online retailer. You will become instrumental in the maintenance and development of an exciting e-commerce company as well as supporting the growth of our new web development agency.

Benefits include pension, break-room with games console, Table Tennis and Table Football, running/walking club, badminton club, organised 5-a-side football matches, board games club, gaming nights, weekly IT workshops, monthly hackathons and discount on Mobile Fun products.