Linux System Administrator - Dublin City Centre

New and exciting opportunity for an experienced IT Systems Engineer with strong Linux administration skills to join a highly successful and rapidly growing international software company ensuring the enterprise business services of this SaaS company run smoothly.

Working closely with US team on the services support and scripting side rather than the infrastructure side you will be upgrading, patching, executing and monitoring processes that keep the global 24×7 up and running.

Working as part of this growing operations support function you will be ensuring all environments are live (production, development, test, training etc) which will require you to tackle all challenges from creating scripts to applying patches and updates both manually and using BladeLogic.

You must have a genuine enthusiasm for your job and be an upbeat character to fit with this ambitious US culture in an exciting SaaS business that is growing rapidly and profitably.

Role / opportunity:

  • Linux administration and Shell scripting
  • Supporting large scale, high availability web based environments
  • Working on the applications side rather than just Unix Linux Infrastructure Admin side
  • Applying patches, upgrades, executing and monitoring business critical processes
  • Working across all environments; production, development, test, training etc
  • Doing basic networking tasks as part of the job
  • Highly exciting company working in the SaaS arena

Skills / experience:

  • 4+ years commercial Systems Administration / Systems Support experience
  • Strong Linux administration and Shell scripting experience
  • Strong experience with MySQL (or equivalent RDBMS)
  • Excellent documentation skills.
  • Experience of supporting high availability systems is a significant advantage

Contact Sam in confidence on +353 (0)1 514 4912 or log on @www.archer.ie for more details