Linux Engineer (Senior)

By joining UKFast you will become an integral part of an 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
• Helping with technical pre-sales
• Aiding with research and development
• Specialist project work.

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 or specialist role
• Have extensive experience of Linux systems administration in a hosting environment
• Have experience of Linux systems administration in a HA environment
• Have an understanding of enterprise Linux solutions.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in one or more of the following:

• Extensive experience Building, installing, maintaining and supporting Linux server(s). Ideally Red Hat / Debian based distributions.
• Extensive experience in diagnosing various server issues using standard open source tools.
• Extensive experience with programming languages such as PHP, Perl, Python, HTML, SQL
• Extensive experience Installing, Configuring and Supporting the following applications and services:
  • Apache / NGiNX
  • MySQL / PostgreSQL
  • FTP (including SFTP & FTPS)
  • Mail Servers
  • Networked / Clustered File Systems
  • File / Filesystem Replication
  • iSCSI / Fibre channel integration
  • Red Hat Clustering
  • High availability technologies.

One or more of the following levels of qualification - certifications are required by the candidate to be considered for this role:

• RHCE
• LPIC-3 / LPI304
• Ubuntu Certified Professional.

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

• Salary negotiable
• An additional shift allowance is paid during 12 hour shifts
• 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.

This role also includes night shifts on a rolling rota basis along with standard 5 days as part of the Day rota covering 8-5, 9-6 or 11-8 between Mon - Sun.