Linux Administrator Redhat / CentOS

DCS Recruitment ,
Bury, Greater Manchester
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £30,000 per annum

Overview

My client is a leading solutions brand and looking for a competent Linux Administrato r to support the Linux Redhat / CentOS estate in a range of tasks such as incident response, patch management, performance monitoring, development and test environment maintenance, log analysis, and scripting. Accountabilities and Tasks: Day-to-day Linux server administration such as applying updates, monitoring performance, analysing long-term trends Administration of development and test environments to ensure that development and test teams follow the correct workflow Packaging of in-house software and support tools Development of support scripts for the service desk Analysis of system and proxy logs Position Requirements - mandatory: Red Hat / CentOS server administration: RHEL 5/6, CentOS 5/6 Shell scripting ( bash ) Networking fundamentals - knowledge of the OSI model; familiarity with the more common text-based protocols such as SMTP and HTTP SQL (MySQL dialect) Logical approach to problem solving Good customer communication skills Able to liaise both with clients and development team to address issues efficiently A strong desire to learn new skills A flexible approach to the provision of support services to a dynamic, rapidly expanding business Position Requirements - desirable: Virtualisation ( KVM , ESXi ) Version control software such as Subversion Perl scripting Javascript, HTML, CSS Familiarity with common network services - SMTP, HTTP, LDAP, Kerberos,NFS, DNS, DHCP, HTTP proxy, SMB Apache Samba Squid Good working knowledge of Linux in a Windows Active Directory environment Basic understanding and experience of Windows MySQL DBA experience ITIL