Linux Junior Technician

By joining UKFast you will become an integral part of a multi award winning family owned business. Reporting to one of the Linux team leaders you will be:

• Assisting with and maintaining customer service solutions via telephone and email
• Advising with customer problems
• Helping with server setup/ configuration and support.

Being passionate about what you do is a pre-requisite for all employees at UKFast. In addition the successful candidate will:

• Be hugely passionate about technology
• Be a team player who is enthusiastic and bright with a can-do attitude
• Have excellent communication skills
• Have the ability to multi-task, prioritise and be able to work on your own initiative
• Excellent customer service skills with working experience
• Goal orientated individual with a desire and commitment to personal development
• Be looking for the opportunity to step up to a more challenging role
• Have experience of Linux systems administration in a hosting environment.

To meet customer requirements the ideal candidate will have:

• Experience Building, Installing, maintaining and supporting Linux server(s). Ideally Red Hat / Debian based distributions
• Experience Installing, Configuring and Supporting the following applications and services:
  • Apache / NGiNX
  • MySQL / PostgreSQL
  • FTP
  • Mail Servers.
• Some exposure to programming languages such as PHP, Perl, Python, HTML, SQL
• Some exposure to diagnosing various server issues using standard open source tools
• Some exposure to command line scripting
• Experience with using Linux control panels, such as cPanel / Plesk.

Ideally one or more of the following qualifications:

• RHCT
• RHCSA
• LPIC-1

Our passion for people will be evident from day one. We invest in your development and provide generous incentives, benefits and rewards. Such as:

• Basic salary of £18-22k depending on experience
• Extensive in-house training
• Assistance with exams/qualifications via study leave, purchase of relevant literature and a bonus for each qualification obtained.
• Free City Centre gym membership
• Team building and events