Systems Administrator Swansea, Wales
Job description
We are looking for a System Administrator to maintain a reliable, secure and efficient data communications network. The ideal candidate will be able to deploy, configure, maintain and monitor all active network equipment in order to ensure smooth system operation.
Role Responsibilities:
· Fully support, configure, maintain and upgrade corporate customer’s networks and in house servers.
· Install and integrate new server hardware and applications.
· Keep an eye out for needed updates.
· Support and administer third-party applications.
· Ensure network security and connectivity.
· Monitor network performance (availability, utilization, throughput, goodput, and latency) and test for weaknesses.
· Set up user accounts, permissions and passwords.
· Resolve problems reported by end user.
· Specify system requirements and design solutions.
· A good understanding of cloud technologies and should be able to analyse the technical requirements and translate those into suitable solutions.
· Experience of defining and creating new solutions.
· Support existing cloud infrastructure.
· Integrate new services and features.
· Collaborate with other teams of engineers, developers, and architects across the project.
Essential Skills and Experience
· Proven experience in a Systems Administrator role.
· Hands on experience in networking, routing and switching.
· Excellent knowledge of best practices around management, control, and monitoring of server infrastructure.
· Experience with firewalls, Internet VPN’s remote implementation, troubleshooting, and problem resolution is desired.
· Ability to set up and configure server hardware.
· Excellent knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure.
· Experience in EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, DynamoDB and CloudFormation.
· Ability to manage migration requirements and bridge gaps.
Sponsorship - If you require sponsorship to work in the UK, check you are eligible under the UKVI points based system online. Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled UK candidate is available to take up the post as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the current Resident Labour Market Test which will be in place until the end of December 2020. UK Visas and Immigration requires employers to complete this test to show that no suitably qualified UK worker can fill the post. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, Tier 2 skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.
Guidance can be found here "Criminal Records Checks For Overseas Applicants" (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants)
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £25,000.00-£32,000.00 per year
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Swansea, SA7 9FG: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- system administration: 5 years (preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Swansea, SA7 9FG
Application deadline: 15/02/2023
Reference ID: QUDNS-SA-11
