Linux RedHat RHEL Administrator (OKN-RedHat-1202) Prestwich, England
Salary: | GBP30000 - GBP35000 per annum |
My client is a leading solutions brand and looking for a competent Linux Administrator to support the Linux Redhat estate in a range of tasks such as incident response, patch management, performance monitoring, development and test environment maintenance, log analysis, and scripting.
Accountabilities and Tasks:
- Day-to-day Linux server administration such as applying updates, monitoring performance, analysing long-term trends
- Administration of development and test environments to ensure that development and test teams follow the correct workflow
- Packaging of in-house software and support tools
- Development of support scripts for the service desk
- Analysis of system and proxy logs
Position Requirements – mandatory:
- Red Hat / CentOS server administration: RHEL 5/6, CentOS 5/6
- Shell scripting (bash)
- Networking fundamentals - knowledge of the OSI model; familiarity with the more common text-based protocols such as SMTP and HTTP
- SQL (MySQL dialect)
- Logical approach to problem solving
- Good customer communication skills
- Able to liaise both with clients and development team to address issues efficiently
- A strong desire to learn new skills
- A flexible approach to the provision of support services to a dynamic, rapidly expanding business
Position Requirements – desirable:
- Virtualisation (KVM, ESXi)
- Version control software such as Subversion
- Perl scripting
- Javascript, HTML, CSS
- Familiarity with common network services - SMTP, HTTP, LDAP, Kerberos,NFS, DNS, DHCP, HTTP proxy, SMB
- Apache
- Samba
- Squid
- Good working knowledge of Linux in a Windows Active Directory environment
- Basic understanding and experience of Windows
- MySQL DBA experience
- ITIL