Bristol Digest, Vol 534, Issue 2

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Today's Topics:

1. JOBS: Senior System Administrator, University of Bristol
(Alex Butcher)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:22:15 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alex Butcher <lug@assursys.co.uk>
To: Bristol & Bath LUG <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [bristol] JOBS: Senior System Administrator, University of
Bristol
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1401231218180.7220@nffheflf.pb.hx>
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<http://www.bris.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingID=1642&nPostingTargetID=5489&option=28&sort=DESC&respnr=1&ID=Q50FK026203F3VBQBV7V77V83&LOV1=6719&Resultsperpage=10&lg=UK&mask=uobext>

"We are seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to work within a team of
technical IT staff which has responsibility for the design, development,
support and maintenance of the University?s mission critical Unix (Linux and
Solaris) systems.

You will have knowledge of the practice of systems administration,
including: identity management, security, patching, packaging, automation
and backup; and building, installing and configuring open source software.
You should have experience of scalable and resilient systems having managed
multiple servers in a heterogeneous and complex environment.

You will have a working knowledge of file transfer mechanisms, iSCSI, fibre
channel and cluster file systems such as GPFS. You should be fluent in
python and bash scripting languages and debugging software.

You must possess knowledge and experience including but not limited to:
Solaris and GNU/Linux operating systems; sparc and x86 hardware; monitoring,
virtualisation for Linux (such as Xen) and Solaris (zones), configuration
management (including bcfg2) and databases."

Benefits include 40 days paid holiday (25 days annual leave, 8 public
holidays, 7 closure days at Easter and Christmas/NY) and membership of the
USS final salary pension scheme (funded by an additional employer
contribution of 16% combined with an employee contribution of 7.5%, so
effective salary range is about ?46654-?52487)

On the downside, you'll be working with me. :-)

Also, out in the Engineering Faculty:

<http://www.bris.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingID=1645&nPostingTargetID=5485&option=28&sort=DESC&respnr=5&ID=Q50FK026203F3VBQBV7V77V83&Resultsperpage=10&lg=UK&mask=uobext>

"The roleholder will contribute significantly in the delivery of Linux
solutions at all levels, including ? but not limited to ? the development of
stable, sustainable Linux desktop distributions and multiuser servers;
automated monitoring, security and license management and updating on server
systems, including rolling out consistent practices for existing systems;
procurement, provisioning, configuration and systems administration of
systems and servers from initiation to completion; engagement with teaching
and research issues and the provision of advice to academic staff writing
grant proposals. Server side, the existing fleet draws on Enterprise Solaris
(v8 to 10) & Linux (Centos and Ubuntu) Administration, NIS, LDAP (inc. AD
integration), NFS, ZFS and VMWare and XEN virtualisation."

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