Server Admin

Brook Street are looking to recruit an experienced server administrator for a client of ours in Oxford. This is a temp role for 12 weeks and please bear in mind that you will need to be on site for server maintenance ocassionally so it is important that you are able to travel.

Responsibilities/duties

Infrastructure

• Act as a primary System Administrator, responsible for the delivery of innovative, resilient and coordinated service across all of our sites
• Take responsibility for the architecture, deployment, maintenance and support of these technologies, including on-going development and identifying opportunities for improvements in line with business priorities

Infrastructure

• Act as a primary System Administrator, responsible for the delivery of innovative, resilient and coordinated service across all of our sites
• Take responsibility for the architecture, deployment, maintenance and support of these technologies, including on-going development and identifying opportunities for improvements in line with business priorities
• Maintain service continuity so as to meet the needs of the Department
• • Design and Implement appropriate disaster recovery solutions to protect Departmental services and data.
  • Work closely with other System Administrators within the department to contribute to the strategic IT plan

  Business Analysis and Development

  • Identify areas of process improvement and act upon them to enhance IT service provision within the Department
  • Provide the organisation with end-to-end solutions that reduce total cost of ownership, are more efficient than their predecessors wherever possible and deliver scalable, robust systems
  • Create opportunities to standardise systems and processes so that they are easily supported by the IT team and more readily understood by customers
  • Actively engage with central IT Services, the ICT Forum and units with similar technologies or concerns
  • Undertake regular review of procedures, processes and systems and look for ways to support existing business requirements and plan for those emerging
  • Communicate effectively at all levels of the Department in order to understand the organisation and create Information Systems that reflect its priorities and aspirations

  Information Engineering Support

  • Take ownership of the existing systems and ensure that the functions and services that they provide are maintained or migrated to a more central equivalent
  • Take an active role in strategic planning for compute in the department

  General Support

  • Assist in the development and associated mentoring of other IT colleagues
  • Provide 1st/2nd/3rd line support for user's issues
  • Present a pleasant, helpful and professional demeanour when dealing with customers
  • Embed creation of documentation for IT and customer use into daily working practice
  • Troubleshoot complex issues in a methodical manner and act as senior support for complex issues arising across the department

  Other

  • Keep abreast of relevant developments within the Department, the wider University and relevant technologies
  • Engage in relevant self-improvement, Department's PDR process, and attend courses, including training, as required
  • Undertake any other duties commensurate with the grade of the post

  Selection criteria

  Essential

  • Demonstrable skills with Linux system administration (ideally Debian and Ubuntu) including NFS, SSH and disk partitioning and logical volume configuration
  • Knowledge and experience of supporting authentication systems such as NIS or LDAP
  • Knowledge and experience of supporting email servers (SMTP, IMAP, Dovecot, postfix etc.)
  • Knowledge and experience of configuring and installing Wiki and Web (Apache)
  • Competency in scripting and/or programming (Perl, Python and Bash would be most useful).
  • Demonstrable skills with supporting and maintaining server virtualisation platforms such as Hyper-V, VMware or equivalent
  • Suitable experience in a post with similar responsibilities and a service-focused ethos.
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken, including the ability to communicate technical issues in an accessible and supportive way.
  • Proven success in organising a busy and varied workload requiring the demonstration of self-motivation and excellent time-management skills, as well as the ability to adapt to changing priorities.

  Desirable

  · Familiarity with basic networking principles (DNS, DHCP, IPv4 etc..)

  • Experience of GPU compute and CUDA
  • Experience with Ansible
  • Experience with Linux monitoring technologies such as Zabbix
  • Experience of managing a small server room
  • Experience with Samba/CIFS
  • Experience in supporting MacOS
  • Experience of cloud compute (ideally AWS)
  • Experience of containerisation (Docker, Podman etc.)
  • Experience of dealing with research data, especially in the context of data security