Systems Administrator / DevOps Engineer

Blueberry Consultants Ltd

Place of work
Remote position, Great Britain
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
by agreement

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Blueberry Consultants Ltd is a highly technical, innovative and professional software development company. We design custom software systems for corporate and start-up clients and develop a range of software products which are sold worldwide across the Internet.
Owned and managed by developers, the company has a very wide technical skills base and an entrepreneurial culture. We value technical expertise and a pragmatic approach, but still have a strong interest in new software technologies and approaches.

Blueberry is looking to recruit an experienced Systems Administrator to work within our team, reporting to the Managing Director. We are currently introducing automation of our key systems and are moving towards a DevOps model, so there is an opportunity for progression into DevOps.
The work is varied and technically challenging and includes supporting and automating a mixed infrastructure of Windows and Linux servers, mostly hosted within an Amazon Web Services environment.
The following are some of the systems currently in use within the company

Amazon Web Services – Including Aurora, Lambda, CloudFormation
Office 365
Exim
Jenkins and Gitlab
SwitchVox – VOIP Phone System
Zabbix / GrayLog / Graphana
OpenLDAP
SQL Server / MySQL
Mikrotik Routers
SVN / Git
Python / PowerShell / Ansible
The successful applicant will be expected to:
• Join our systems administration team and take over responsibility for specific systems or groups of systems (supported by other technical staff within the company).
• Handle requests from team members for technical support, including server configuration.
• Implement ongoing maintenance – e.g. server updates.
• In future, assist with the automation of Systems including software build systems.
• Work with the Systems Administration Team and the MD to plan and implement upgrades and improvements to systems.

Working Hours

This is a full time, remote position. Work patterns are based around standard 40 hours’ work-week, with some room for flexibility as required. Systems Administrators are required to do out of hours support from time to time.

Employee perks, benefits

Remote position

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

Follow-up/Higher Professional Education
University education (Bachelor's degree)

Language skills

English - Intermediate (B1)

Number of years of experience

3

Personality requirements and skills

Strong core experience of Windows and Linux System Administration
Specific experience of some of the core systems we use, such as Amazon, Exchange, Zabbix, OpenLDAP, SQL Server and, Networking.
Some experience of automating systems using Python or PowerShell.
Ability to learn new systems quickly.
Good communication skills, both verbally and by email.

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Brief description of the company

Blueberry Consultants is a private limited custom software development company, formed in early 1997 by the current Managing Director, Martin Green. Blueberry has been a Microsoft Gold Partner for a number of years - which represents the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies - as well as an Amazon Web Services specialist.

Our Mission

Blueberry Consultants' mission is to solve challenging technical problems in partnership with our clients.

How we achieve it:

We understand the business needs of our clients, and how technology can be a tool to make modern businesses more profitable.
Blueberry combines technical excellence with great customer service and value for money.
We value creativity and collaboration; ideas are shared and everybody contributes on an individual basis to the common goal.
We create new teams for each project, ensuring the best possible combination of skills and experience to meet the client's needs and deliver high quality solutions.
What Makes Us Different
Our exceptionally deep technical expertise allows us to take on projects often perceived as too complex or difficult by other developers.

We believe in working in partnership with our clients to understand their unique needs and working methods.

In our experience, working together consistently results in creating intelligent solutions to meet our client's evolving business demands. This collaborative style of working has resulted in the development of award-winning software.

Number of employees

150-199 employees
ID: 3295857  Dátum zverejnenia: 26.1.2018  Základná zložka mzdy (brutto) a ďalšie odmeny: by agreement