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London - Systems Engineer

Specific Media is the world's largest independent online advertising network with office locations in the US, UK, Germany, France, Denmark and Norway. We are seeking a Systems Engineer to join our operations team.

Position Summary:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Listed below are responsibilities, experience, knowledge, skill, and/or ability required to effectively fill the Systems Manager position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Includes the following but other duties may be assigned.

• Deal with incidents as they arise
• Proactively seek ways to fix problems
• Deal with ad-hoc work requests
• Work on projects to enhance or grow the Specific Media technical environment
• Work with developers and other company staff to improve the company's products

Competencies:

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Ability to excel in a fast paced environment
• Rapidly adapt to change
• Display superior problem solving and organisational skills
• Provide strong service levels
• Proactively improve quality of enterprise services

Education and/or Experience:

• 5yrs+ experience of supporting IT infrastructures
• Demonstrable problem solving skills
• On-call experience

Technical skills:

• Linux
• Perl/BASH scripting
• Basic working knowledge of Java
• Automated monitoring systems (Nagios or similar)
• Automated software deployment via source control systems (SVN, CVS or similar)
• Automated configuration systems (puppet, cfengine or similar)
• Virtualisation experience with VMware, Xen or similar
• Networking experience including firewalls, load balancers and enterprise grade switches
• Database administration (MySQL or similar)
• Knowledge of:
  • Co-located data centre operations
  • WAN Networking and Firewall administration
  • Load balancer and enterprise/data centre switch administration
  • x86 hardware deployment and maintenance
  • Linux (or UNIX) administration, gained in a large-scale environment
  • Deployment and support of web applications based on Apache and Java
  • MySQL administration
  • Monitoring systems

Department:

Engineering - Reports to Enterprise Operations Manager

Hours:

The normal week of work is Monday through Friday. The basic day of work for full-time employees is eight hours, exclusive of lunch hour. On-call hours will be required as part of the role.

Travel:

Short duration European and world wide travel will be required as part of the role.

If your background and qualifications meet the above criteria and you are interested in joining the leading online technology/media company, please submit your resume today to: ukjobs@specificmedia.com.

Note: Please be sure to include the job title in the subject line of your message for the position you are applying for.

Specific Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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