Desired Skills and Experience

  • Perform system administration for systems running on Linux platforms (Ubuntu/Debian)
  • Perform research, analysis, problem re-creation, troubleshooting and identify potential resolutions for operating systems, application and resource contingency issues
  • Maintain system security and integrity controls. Help to formulate policies, procedures and standards relating to system administration and management
  • Develop system monitoring capacities. Conduct daily system monitoring and system maintenance activities
  • Maintain documentation related to system administration and operations. Investigate system performance issues to improve its reliability, maintainability and performance of the system
  • Perform and manage deployments to production and staging environments
  • Support Linux systems and run applications developed using Java platform
  • Develop and implement backup policies
  • Work closely with the development team to support it in system-related tasks
  • University level education in computer science or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience
  • 5+ years of system administration experience
  • Significant understanding and knowledge of system administration, database and server-side programming concepts
  • Installation, configuration and system administration experience with Linux, Ansible, MySQL, MongoDB, Apache Solr, Apache Cassandra, OpenStack
  • Experience in setting up and configuration of Jenkins
  • Experience with Cloud Foundry is an advantage
  • Experience in setting up and configuring monitoring solutions like Nagios
  • Experience in software development in Java or Ruby is an advantage
  • Good written and spoken English with an ability to express complex technical ideas to a non-technical audience
  • Open minded, rich in new ideas, has a practical approach, team player
  • Partners in EU and other projects
  • Europeana Tech Network
  • Continental Digital Library Technical and Data Directors
  • Europeana Stakeholders and Users
  • Additionally, you will receive a (pro-rated) holiday allowance of 8% and an annual (year-end, pro-rated) bonus of 8.33%.
  • 1 year fixed term contract with possibility of extension depending on funding availability.
  • We offer 42.25 days holiday per year (based on full-time employment).

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