Recruiting now
| Posted: | 27/09/24 | |
| Recruiter: | UK Servers | |
| Reference: | 2828656855 | |
| Type: | Permanent | |
| Disciplines: | Systems Engineer | |
| Salary: | £30,000 - £40,000 Annual | |
| Location: | West Midlands | |
| Description: | About Us Established in 2004, we are a provider of hosting solutions for any size or type of business - from a single server to complex managed hosting environments as well as simple co-location and rackspace services. About the Role We are looking for individuals interested in servers/networks to join our fast-expanding team to work on-site on a shift pattern in our Coventry datacentre. The role is primarily based around providing technical support and "remote-hands" services to our customers. Given that we offer a wide range of hosting services, there will be a high degree of variation of day-to-day work and no two days are the same. We have a relaxed, friendly working environment and provide a fantastic opportunity for all new starters to thrive and rapidly learn new skills as full on-the-job training is provided. - This position would be working full time from our Coventry datacentre with the opportunity for occasional travel to 3rd party datacentre sites. - This would be a shift-based position working 4 days on - 4 days off in rotation - Shifts would be in a rotation as follows: day - day - night.Dayshift is 11 hours and nightshift is 12 hours (7:30PM - 7:30AM) - Initial training period of approximately three months during 9AM-5PM hours. - Full on the job training would be provided. - Private healthcare program after 3 months of employment. Some of your responsibilities may include: - Building up new physical rackmount servers or troubleshooting hardware faults. - Deploying new physical or virtual dedicated servers. - Deploying and managing private cloud hosting (primarily VMWare, Proxmox, OnApp) - Deploying and managing load-balanced hosting environments. - Providing technical support for customer-submitted tickets. - Configuring and racking new rack-switches (primarily Juniper). - Responding to monitoring alerts in a timely manner, escalating when needed. - Setting up and managing customers backups (primarily Veeam). - Managing customer firewalls (primarily Cisco, Juniper, pfSense) Required Skills/Experience: - Experience building and configuring computer hardware. - Strong knowledge of Windows Operating System and ideally some exposure to the Linux operating systems including Ubuntu, AlmaLinux, RedHat, Debian - Excellent written and spoken English. - A good attitude towards customer service. - Basic understanding of TCP/IP networking. - Technically minded with an interest in latest technology. - Ability to work on a shift basis. Desired Skills/Experience: We are more than happy to train an enthusiastic individual, but the ideal candidate would have the following: - Experience with LAMP stack / web hosting in general. - Comfortable using Linux at command line level - Previous experience of hosting control panels (cPanel/Plesk) - Understanding of DNS systems - Experience of using Cisco or Juniper network equipment within a datacentre environment - Exposure to and basic operational understanding of virtualisation technologies (VMWare, Proxmox) - Driving Licence would be advantageous. - Previous experience working with server computer or server hardware, particularly Supermicro, Dell, HP. - UK Driving Licence would be advantageous. No agencies please | |