Red Hat Linux Systems Administrator. Central London, UK. £40-55k (EU-Eligible!)

Red Hat Linux Systems Administrator, 2 years fixed term contract (with potential for extension), Red Hat Linux (5 and 6), Red Hat Satellite Server or Red Hat Kickstart, £40-55,000 (dependent on experience), Central London, UK. (EU-Eligible applicants Only!)

Benefits include: 10% Bonus, Pension (to 10% company contribution), 28 days holiday, private medical insurance.

Our client a market leading international Online Gaming company seeks an experienced Red Hat Linux Systems Administrator for a 2 year fixed term contract.

On offer is a fantastic opportunity to work in a dynamic, innovative and highly successful business in a great central location. Also on offer is a warm and extremely friendly work environment, with high levels of staff retention and staff satisfaction.

Your responsibilities will include the following:

  • Red Hat Linux (5 and 6) Systems Administration, image management, including configuration, patch management, package building and tuning (including Satellite and Kickstart).
  • Installation, configuration and maintenance of Red Hat Linux Systems.
  • Maintenance of common network services (DNS, NTP, NFS, Kerberos, LDAP)
  • Daily operational maintenance of a highly optimized online system.
  • Periodic 24/7 on-call rotation.
  • Extensive Bash, Perl, and Python scripting and support of legacy scripts.

Essential is proven experience of the following:

  • Good Red Hat Linux Systems Administration.
  • Red Hat Satellite Server or Red Hat Kickstart experience.
  • Installation and maintenance of Unix system hardware (HP).
  • Extensive operational experience in a complex distributed environment.
  • Working experience with internet technologies.
  • Experience with high availability environments.
  • Excellent English communication.

Desirable but not essential is any from:

  • German or Spanish.
  • System monitoring with Nagios.
  • Python, Perl and Shell Scripting.
  • Samba
  • Exim

Please email Word CV’s to o.carter@xist4.com quoting ref: LKN/10240