Mid-Range Systems Administrator

Salary: £26,000 – £26,910 per year

Howdens Joinery arelooking for an experienced Mid-Range Systems Administrator based in our Northampton office in Brackmills Business Park. As a FTSE 100 business which is undergoing an exciting period of transformation and growth, you will effectively provide supportand direction for the IBM-Power, AIX and Linux platforms and would be responsible for ensuring best practise installation and configuration across our Linux and AIX estate.

Working as part of a team of Mid-Range Systems Administrators,you will proactively monitor and report on capacity and performance of Howdens Linux and AIX platforms, provide detailed 2 nd /3 rd level design and support for Linux and AIX platforms and, also participate in IS projects by providing expert support and guidance. Reporting to the Infrastructure Manager, you will be an excellent communicator, confidently presenting your ideas to colleagues and effectively building relationships with and managing 3 rd party suppliers.

The ability to manage your own time and prioritise workload is critical as you will be handling assigned work from several sources across the business. You will possess drive and resilience and demonstrate the ability to design and present solutions to complex problems and have analytical approach to troubleshooting and fault finding. Confident in making decisions you will ensure projects and introduction of new Mid-Range platforms are delivered in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Knowledge & Experience required:

Design, implementation and administration of Linux systems (including but not limited to RHEL and SLES)
Delivering and supporting high availability architecture and solutions
RedHat satellite server
Shell scripting (Bash and Korn)
Familiar with the principle of server performance analysis and tuning
Monitoring, alerting and dashboarding using tools such as NIMON, Zabbix, Grafana
Automation technologies (including, but not limited to, Ansible, Terraform)
The following experience is also desirable:

Familiar with virtualisation and containerisation technologies
Experience with delivery and support of cloud services in Azure and/or AWS
Technologies such as Docker, GIT, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps
Knowledge of Redwood Cronacle
IBM Power, AIX 7.x LPAR, VIO, NIM and HMC administration
Scale up / out SAP HANA platforms
Familiar with Project Management Methodologies (SAFe Agile, Prince II)
About Howdens:

Joinery is a highly successfulFTSE 100business, with more than 800 depots nationwide, more than 10,000 staff and last year our sales reached circa £2.1 billion. Despite our scale, Howdens remains a local business with traditional values.

We have a very competitive salary and benefits package including 25 days holiday increasing to 27 days after 5 years, annual company bonus, and a contributory pension. There is also great coffee and other refreshments and snacks, onsite car parking, exceptional social events and a friendly and supportive working environment.

As well as the opportunity to develop within a high- profileFTSE 100 company, you will be part of a rewarding organisation recognised for excellence in the workplace in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For.