Systems Platform Manager
6 months
Ipswich - hybrid
Inside IR35 - umbrella only

About this role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the team that develops and operates the UK's largest Public Wifi network. We need a systems administrator with strong Linux skills and experience of managing a large scale high availability platform to help support an existing Legacy platform and play a part in defining the systems administration for a new platform.

The team you will be joining supports a platform that provides Wifi to premium partners, consumers and mobile customers. You will work closely with network and operational teams to ensure the existing platform is secure and maintained to ensure capacity requirements and availability targets are met.

The systems administration work on the Wifi platform is varied and could include:

• Planning large scale operating system patching
• Planning and undertaking deployment of changes
• Documenting and raising change requests
• Occasional overnight working to minimise risk of change to service
• Pro-active operational support to ensure service availability, monitoring and potentially fixing any in-life operational issues.
• Capacity management
• Deep dives and analysis of in-life issues
• Planning systems administration for new TSA compliant platform
• Extending scope of existing automated patching
• Urgent vulnerability out of hours patching
  

You'll have the following responsibilities

We work as a team to deliver service to our customers' Wifi network with everyone playing a part. As part of this role you can expect to:

• Take part in daily stand-ups and work as part of an agile team to break your work down into manageable user stories.
• Work with Wifi network and systems/server teams to dimension and realise production services.
• Apply security best practice when managing the platform.
• Support network and end to end test teams.

You'll have the following skills & experience

You will be passionate sharing knowledge and constantly looking to improve on best practice. You will enjoy the variety of tasks required to proactively manage platforms that make a real and immediate impact.

The successful candidate will have a desire support the Wifi platfrom that delivers excellent operational performance coupled with strong knowledge and experience with the following:

• Linux system administration
• Docker/Podman and containers
• Operational system administration experience of large scale high availability platforms
• Experience of VMWare

Experience with some of the following would also be advantageous:

• Platform Monitoring ( eg CheckMK, Selenium)
• Java Garbage collection/memory management
• Bash Scripting
• Containers
• Cache
• Understanding of IP Networking and RADIUS
• Use of SQL for Database queries
• Hazelcast Caches
• Apache Kafka Streaming Architectures
• SIEM event management tools
• Cassandra Database Replication

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