Data Center System Administrator

VON Consulting is an HR Consultancy company, providing solutions and services in the following areas: recruitment and executive search, personnel leasing, payroll, administration and training.

Requirements:

At least 3 years proven in-depth experience in Linux/Unix systems administration;
 Knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, PAT, NAT, FireWalls, VPN, SSH;
 Knowledge of VMWare software, and other virtualization software;
 Advantage UNIX scripting abilities (shell, bash, python, perl, sed, awk);
 Continuous Integration knowledge — setup, configure, support (Maven, Nexus, Jenkins, Sonar, SCMs);
 Practical administration skills for databases like MongoDB and MariaDB will be a plus;
 Good practical experience with network devices will counted as plus;
 Perform/analyze OS Penetration Tests results;
 Good knowledge of Linux (configuration and management);
 Sound understanding of ITIL Change and configuration Management;
 Experience with Confluence and Jira tools;
 Experience with Salt States and Kubernetes Architectures along with previous datacenter activities will be a strong plus;
 Security and key encryption mechanisms;
 The engineer must be curious, autonomous and highly motivated by new information technologies as the tasks require performing in-depth technical tests with problem and root cause analysis;
 Fluent in English (read and written);
 Strong analysis skills;
 Excellent attention to detail;
 Must be able to communicate effectively and professionally with customers and other third
party companies;
 Ability to work and interact effectively in a team environment;
 Be available to work flexible hours;
 Be available to work extra hours on-call as per monthly planning but also in case of emergencies.

The System Administrator is a technical orientated role which is responsible for the maintenance and implementation of infrastructure and system components deployed by the company and involves cross-functional interaction with other teams.
Responsibilities

 Work independently to understand issues and to implement workarounds through the proper observance of support standards and conventions;
 Analyze, diagnose, and provide workarounds until a final fix can be supplied;
 Managing and support infrastructure resources;
 Define requirements for system configuration;
 Create requests, validate results to/from external managed services infra team;
 Control 3 rd party in infra deliverables;
 Have a good command for Linux OS, Ubuntu, CentOS and be able to diagnose incident not only from network devices but also from system level/OS;
 Assist support staff as required in order to meet deadlines and customers support priorities;
 Share skills and experience with other groups within the organization, with the aim of establishing consistency and improving quality within the company;
 Proactively and promptly identify and assist to resolve any relevant key issues and/or risks;
 Understand, follow and improve upon all formally-communicated methodologies, processes, policies, and values. Focusing always on delivering consistent, reliable, repeatable, scalable and quality outcomes;
 Provide support and encouragement to other team members and participate in the up-skilling and training of colleagues and new staff;
 Analyze failure and ensure operational recovery within agreed SLA through standard procedure;
 Manage documentation of configuration in Confluence/repository and keep it up to date;
 All other duties as requested by Management.