We are one of the leading providers of VoIP, email and web services to UK Small Business. Are you a leading Systems Administrator who can help us grow and expand our platforms?

Gradwell operates at the Micro/Small end of the SME market place, providing email, telecoms and broadband services to over 7000 billing customers. We’re one of the largest UK SME VoIP service providers (user base of over 30,000) and we have strong ambitions for growth. We have a turnover of 2.4 million and 30 staff based in our offices in Bath.

To continue supporting our demanding growth, we are looking for an experienced system administrator to help manage our linux based application platform.

The Role:

• Provision new Physical and Virtual Servers.
• Plan and perform day to day unix systems maintenance.
• Design and deliver solutions for new products and services.
• Monitor and manage server capacity.
• Monitor and manage server security.
• Meet service availability targets.
• Ensure that services run and are proactively maintained with a “zero defect” approach.
• Maintain system monitoring tools (nagios).
• Document architectures and procedures for systems operation.
• Organise junior systems administration and contract staff.

Key Skills:

• VmWare VCP Certified with experience of iSCSI
• Experienced Linux Sys Admin (Centos)
• Experience of FreeBSD
• Strong perl and bash scripting
• Experience of complete OpenSource stack(MySQL, Apache/PhP, Mail Daemons, Radius, anti-spam and virus, Asterisk, OpenSER, Load Balancing)
• Exposure to and a basic understanding of networking in a Cisco/Juniper environment
• An aptitude for learning
• Ability to present and report about progress, projects and performance to the rest of the business

Additionally, experience of ITIL Process Management would be beneficial.

Salary;

This is a full time position (37.5 hours) based in our Bath Offices (26 Cheltenham St, Bath, BA2 3EX). In addition, you will be required to work as part of our on call rota, as part of a team of 3/4 responding to out of hours fixes.

Salary: Region of 30,000 pa, plus Benefits.

Application Details:

For an initial discussion, please contact Stuart Herbert (stuart@gradwell.net, 01225 800 897) and apply via email.

Our offices are located on the Lower Bristol Road in Bath, a 10 min walk from the train station, next to the Green Park Tavern.