My Dublin based client is recruiting for a Systems Administrator to join the team on a permanent basis. This role will be remote working initially.

My Dublin based client is recruiting for a Systems Administrator to join the team on a permanent basis. This role will be remote working initially. This is a very hands on role in a dynamic environment. The successful candidate will be responsible for the support, maintenance, security, and on-going deployment of the production systems.

Job Responsibilities

• Support of proprietary transactional systems across the business.
• The provisioning and deployment of reporting mechanisms to measure system metrics,
• performance, management data and other information as required.
• Work with the development and business teams in the design and rollout of new products and services.
• Organisation and execution of routine procedures to ensure system reliability and disaster recovery.
• Monitoring system performance.
• Perform system and application upgrades as required.
• Perform third line customer support.
• Liaise with 3rd party suppliers and contracted support companies.
• On-call systems support on a per week rota
• Systems Security

Experience Required

• Strong experience in enterprise infrastructure  – Windows Server 2008 to 2016, Linux (RHEL/CentOS), vSphere, AWS, etc
• Good working knowledge of SQL for writing DB queries (MSSQL & MySQL), stored procedures etc
• Good working knowledge & experience in troubleshooting of web technologies,  – Apache, IIS, .NET etc
• Experience with scripting tasks (Bash/Perl/PHP & Batch/Powershell)
• Good understanding of SAN technologies
• A good understanding of networking technologies and debugging (use of TCPdump, netstat, load balancers etc…)

Essential and Desirable Skills

• Good working knowledge of SQL (replication/backups/optimization)
• Working experience of application scaling technologies, such as Load Balancers
• Experience with Support software (nagios/syslog-ng/JIRA/SNMP)
• MySQL/MSSQL Database Administration
• Nice-to-have: VCP certified on vSphere 5.5 or later)
• Knowledge of AWS Administration would be advantageous

Educational Requirements

Computer Science Degree

• 40 Hour Working Week
• Pension
• Healthcare
• Flexi Time