Desired Skills and Experience
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a numerical discipline.
- 3+ years’ experience in a Microsoft/Linux environment focused on server products rather than desktop deployment.
- Experience working with vendor support raising incidents for failed hardware and managing vendor responses.
- Familiar with Agile SCRUM/Kanban processes.
- Flexibility to perform occasional out of hours work and willingness to take on-call responsibilities.
- Ability to administer Ubuntu Linux and other flavours of Linux – Bash/Shell scripting.
- Detailed understanding of TCP/IP networking, including but not limited to: IP addressing, static/dynamic routing, firewalls, ACLs, ASDM.
- Experience of administering/managing Cisco ASA Firewalls including IPS/IDS and L2/L3 Switches.
- Understanding of DNS.
- Scripting experience in at least one of the following languages: PowerShell, Bash, Python and Ruby.
- Experience of automated configuration management tools (e.g. Chef, Puppet, and DSC) and DevOps practices.
- Deploying and managing cloud hosted virtual environments – AWS EC2 primarily, however, experience with other services would be beneficial.