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DGH Recruitment

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Contract

Job hours

Full time

Linux Systems Administrator/ APACHE/ TOMCAT / NAGIOS / MYSQL

An exciting opportunity to work with a global business providing real time up to-the-minute business information to helps business's retain competitiveness.

Our client is seeking an experience Linux Systems administrator to plan and support LINUX and Open source software based web systems and databases in use for internet services.

You will be responsible for the following

* Provide "hands on" 3rd level support for operational problems and issues referred by the Technical Services and other technical support teams.
* Control and prioritisation of workload and resources, ensuring that problems and service requests are managed through to resolution within agreed service levels.
* Development and maintenance of operationally robust and secure infrastructure.
* Development and maintenance of ad hoc applications/interfaces to support existing 3rd party systems.
* Manage technical projects, external resources and 3rd party suppliers as appropriate.

Skills and experience

* Strong practical knowledge of the Linux operating system.
* Extensive knowledge of internet services systems and applications.
* Knowledge to compile and install various packages/software to minimize security risks, to achieve desired functionality.
* Knowledge of basic shell scripting, perl and python would be beneficial.
* Database Administration of MySQL including replication and backups.
* Knowledge of AMANDA backup system.
* Knowledge of Citrix/XEN Virtualization.
* Knowledge to deploy IPTABLES firewall on individual servers to isolate communication based of services offered by particular server.
* Knowledge of NAGIOS Monitoring and Reporting System.
* Knowledge to install and configure Apache webserver to setup virtual hosts with various feature like WebDAV, mod_ssl, mod_gzip, mod_php etc..
* Good knowledge of Email servers like SENDMAIL or POSTFIX
* Knowledge to setup high availability WEB, EMAIL, NFS and DATABASE clusters using heartbeat, ldirectord and DRBD.
* Knowledge to install and configure OpenLDAP.

* Management of simultaneous technical support and development activities.
* Project planning and control of servers and applications roll-out projects.
* Experience of leading/managing technical projects.
* Experience of planning/deploying Mission critical Web, Database and Email clusters using ldirectord and heartbeat for high availability.

In accordance with the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, this position is advertised based upon DGH Recruitment Limited having first sought approval of its client to find candidates for this position.

DGH Recruitment Limited acts as both an Employment Agency and Employment Business