Systems Engineer - HSCN

About Redcentric

Redcentric is a leading managed service provider with a rich end-to-end solution portfolio covering the spectrum of Connectivity, Cloud and Collaboration, designed and delivered by our own highly skilled teams from our privately owned, UK based multi-million pound infrastructure.

Redcentric has annualised revenues in excess of £90million, more than 500 highly skilled employees serving over 1000 customers across the UK.

With the IT landscape in constant evolution, Redcentric is built around today's modern IT challenges offering application, collaboration, infrastructure, network and IT security services. Learn more about what we do on our website.

This position is open to UK based applicants only.

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

About you

• 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.

If you have the above skills, knowledge and experience and are keen to be part of a collaborative, innovative and friendly team, please click apply today!