Systems Administrator

About the Position

We are currently looking for a talented and ambitious Systems Administrator to join our Infrastructure Team. As part of the Infrastructure Team you will get the chance to work with a wide array of cutting-edge technologies and help maintain our customers’ platforms. We work with some of the largest publishers across Europe and operate in a high traffic environment, handling hundreds of millions of page impressions each month.

Responsibilities

• Build, install, configure, upgrade & maintain both physical and virtual infrastructure.
• Ensuring that our systems are consistently delivered quickly and with high availability.
• Working with the development team to design fast, scalable systems.
• Scripting/automation skills: BASH/sh, PHP, Python, Perl etc.
• Removing performance bottlenecks from current systems.
• Apply and update system upgrades, firmware and infrastructure changes.
• Proactively monitor and manage the health and configuration of the system. Takes corrective actions based upon Standard Operating Procedures.
• Must be available to work outside of normal business hours to fulfil production and project needs, provide 24×7 on-call support on a rotating basis.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience administering Linux/UNIX systems.
• Familiarity with the various cloud computing platforms, Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean and Linode etc.
• Understanding of container technologies: containers (Docker, podman, LXC), Kubernetes.
• Understanding of the PHP language, how best to set up and configure.
• DevOps experience is desirable.
• Networking tools/technologies: HAProxy, ingress (containers), routing, firewall (iptables or nftables).
• You must understand TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP and DNS well enough to debug common problems.
• We work with a variety of different systems and customers, where creative problem solving is an important skill to have.
• Experience working with Nginx, PHP, MySQL, Redis, and Varnish is a distinct advantage.
• Ability to adapt to new technologies.
• Excellent communication and time-management skills.

We Offer

• Competitive salary package, contingent on experience.
• Fully remote work available.
• English lessons provided.

If you have a Github account, have contributed to open source projects, have a personal project of which you’re particularly proud or are currently getting neck-deep in a new tech about which you’re really excited, tell us all about it in your cover letter!

About the Company

CROSS BORDER TALENTS is a specialist recruitment consultancy with a network of recruitment partners across the globe. We provide permanent and talent-leasing recruitment solutions for the Engineering, ICT, and Multilingual sectors.

Location: Lisbon, Portugal (Remote work available)

Contact: [email protected]

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