Junior Systems Administrator

Napier ,
London, Greater London
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Napier is here to make the world a safer place through Intelligent Compliance. Were a new breed of anti-money laundering (AML) and trade compliance business. Our advanced products increase efficiency and minimise risk by successfully combining big data technologies with AI and machine learning. It adds up to the worlds first truly intelligent compliance platform. Our products are designed as cloud native and distributed application layers, formed of many microservices, leading to highly scalable and highly available solutions. We support all installation paradigms, offline and on-premise, private cloud and public cloud. We do this by leveraging infrastructure as a service from our providers and installing and utilising open source software such as Mesos Marathon to provide resource abstraction. Summary of Position Napier Technologies Limited is looking for a Junior Systems Administrator to help manage and maintain its internal development and test infrastructure (hosted in private cloud) and to assist in managing live client environments (hosted in Azure public cloud) The role will report directly to the Head of IT Operations. The role will include configuration of operating systems, open source components, configuration of monitoring and alerting and contribution to DevOps development of Ansible and Terraform roles Responsibilities Infrastructure Provisioning Hands-on management of infrastructure (both private cloud resources as well as physical resources such as laptops and workstations.) This will include configuring networking for both virtual and physical environments, the creation of virtual machines and installation of host operating systems and the configuration of office equipment/firewalls. Incident Triage and Response Responding to incidents and problems, to internal and external stakeholders, third party suppliers and users within SLA's Management of support tickets and drive remedial work to mitigate an incident Incident triaging with ability to multi-task and prioritise Investigation and resolution of outages or abnormal system behaviours Escalate incidents based on standard operating procedures, follow up and escalate until resolution Monitoring and Alerting Management of alerts raised by infrastructure monitoring. Performing daily health checks (Network, servers & cloud platforms) Assist in the analysis and reporting of alerts raised by infrastructure elements Requirements Qualifications and Training Experience 3+ years of experience in an IT operational position (ideally based in financial services industry) 3+ years of Linux administration, networking Qualities and Attitude An adaptable problem solver, the role includes managing many different systems and technologies in a complex landscape and the candidate must be able to be able to work out how to identity problems and solutions for technologies they may not be familiar with. They must be comfortable with low level tasks such as the creation of virtual machines, configuring IP tables and managing firewalls. Product Knowledge Office 365 MacOS Linux Operating Systems such as Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (including knowledge of Security Enforcing Linux) Public cloud infrastructure such as Azure FortiGate Firewalls Competencies Network Configuration (Routing and firewall, VPN technologies) Operating System Configuration (MacOS, Windows, Ubuntu and RHEL Linux) including server hardening Information Technology Security (Cyber Security, Network Security, Information Security, Endpoint Security) Business Continuity Planning (High Availability, DR, Backup) Incident Management (Incident Response and resolution) Change Management Application Security (User Interfaces Benefits * Salary 30,000- 35,000 pa. * Company matched pension scheme * Life Insurance * Income protection * Bupa Cash plan * Bupa Dental plan

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