Linux Systems Administrator

Codethink is looking to hire a systems administrator to join its Manchester-based Operations team. The Operations Team provide the infrastructure & support which keep our development projects running. Responsibilities would include:

• Ongoing maintenance of our current infrastructure
• Designing and implementing new systems and deployments to cope with our business’s growth
• Contribute to leading our infrastructure endeavours, on both in company and client facing projects
• Debugging really weird system interaction issues
• Providing desktop Linux & Mac technical support

Skills & Requirements:

• Enterprise Networking Knowledge (VLANs, DHCP, DNS, packet filtering, routing, enterprise wireless networks)
• Strong knowledge and experience of Unix-like (GNU/Linux preferred) systems administration
• Provisioning or management of private cloud / Infrastructure-as-a-Service would be an advantage
• Support for GNU/Linux and Mac desktop environments
• Configuration management and deployment. Good Ansible skills would be an advantage
• Experience in 1 or more programming/scripting languages (shell/python preferred) would be an advantage
• Engaging with upstream communities to solve problems, especially via IRC
• Excellent communication skills in spoken and written English
• Knowledge of CI/CD Systems
• Knowledge of git or similar source control systems
• Security best practices

The Operations Team look after cross-platform (mostly x86 and ARM) infrastructure onsite and remotely. We aim to provide reliable platforms for the business, using config management and deployment tools. The job is based in our Manchester offices, and involves occasional out-of-hours and off-site support. Codethink provides a supportive and friendly working environment with lots of room to learn and develop your professional capabilities, working on challenging and interesting projects for a range of world-leading companies. If you think Codethink could be right for you, we’d love to hear from you! Please send your CV and a cover letter to jobs@codethink.co.uk