Systems Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

Redcentric | Systems Engineer - HSCN Job location Home Based - UK About Redcentric Redcentric is a leading managed services provider, born in Yorkshire and now operating across the UK. We support more than 1,700 customers with critical technology services they rely on to stay connected, secure and productive. We bring together deep technical expertise across cloud, connectivity and communications, with a secure by design approach, and a clear focus on delivering future ready solutions. Our team of over 500 colleagues help us deliver revenues in excess of £135 million as we look to build on this success in a fast moving, and transformative IT landscape. Learn more about what we do on our website www.redcentricplc.com Job description This position is open to UK based applicants only. Key Responsibilities/Duties Working within a small team to build and support complex server, database and cloud infrastructures in both green and brown field environments, following design documentation and industry best practices.Collaborating with colleagues to quickly and efficiently expedite the resolution of any issues encountered, doing so in a logical and methodical manner.Work pro-actively in the management and monitoring of customer environments to prevent issues and outages happening in the first place.Flexibility in your approach to work and be a team player, where everyone pitches in to get the job done.Dealing professionally with customers directly.Comfortable working effectively in a fast-paced, high-volume team environment, managing competing priorities while maintaining accuracy, service quality and clear communication. Key Skills & Experience Strong Linux skills (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu/Debian)Familiarity with Microsoft platforms and be comfortable working on both platforms.Knowledge and experience of databases such as MySQL, MS SQL, PSQL and Oracle is beneficial.You should be competent with TCP/IP networking and able to perform initial analysis and troubleshooting of networking issues before handing off to dedicated network engineers.Experience in supporting multiple tier architectures is useful as we have a wide of range of platforms to support. Knowledge of web hosting platforms such as Apache/IIS/nginx/Tomcat will be very useful.Experience with firewall rules and troubleshooting issues.You should have experience of scripting tools such as shell scripts, Powershell, Ruby, Bash & Python.You should be familiar with virtualisation platforms, high availability solutions, containerisation, and load balancing, such as VMWare, clustering, VTMs, HAProxy, Docker.You should have experience of using software configuration management tools, preferably Puppet.You should be comfortable working with version control systems, such as Git.Experience in supporting hardware such as servers and SAN/NAS devices would be a benefit.Skills in public, private and hybrid clouds would be very useful as we have a diverse infrastructure to support. Hours of work The company’s standard hours of work are 9.00 until 5.30pm, Monday to Friday, with 30 minutes for lunch, however, due to the nature of this role there may be the need for flexibility in relation to working hours. This position is open to UK based applicants only. Redcentric will only contact candidates using official @redcentricplc.com email addresses. We do not ask applicants to complete external surveys or provide personal and or financial information outside our formal recruitment process. If you are unsure about any communication, please contact us directly via our website.