Systems Administrator II

Astreya Inc.; City of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology service provider in London seeks a Systems Administrator II to manage and facilitate operations support for large-scale systems. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field, with strong troubleshooting skills and knowledge of server management. Responsibilities include server maintenance, installation, and coordination with remote vendors to ensure seamless operations.

Qualifications

• Strong ability to work under pressure.
• Good teamwork spirit while being able to work independently.
• Knowledge of interdependencies of server functions and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Plan server installations and manage resource utilization.
• Install operating systems for new mounted servers.
• Maintain data on internal systems including asset management.

Skills

Server lifecycle management

Troubleshooting

Good communication skills

Analytical skills

Knowledge of Shell/Bash scripts

Basic networking concepts

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Job description

Systems Administrator II page is loaded## Systems Administrator IIlocations: London, United Kingdomtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R0013768**What this Job Entails:**The System Administrator is expected to facilitate operational support to and on behalf of the assigned team. The assigned team supports and maintains a variety of large and global scale systems for building management and physical security operations. The skill set required is industry typical 'systems administration', including working knowledge of various networking systems. Work is ticket based, and the team would be expected to procedurally work through tickets (submitted via a template) to resolution.1. Responsible for planning the server onto racks, arranging the server mounting ◦ Develop and implement capacity management strategies for server deployments in large- scale data centers, optimizing resource utilization. ◦ Gather server requirements and ensure adequate provision of space, power, and rack capacities. 2. Install the operating systems for new mounted servers 3. Responsible for reinstalling the server operation systems, solving the abnormalities. 4. Responsible for the daily server maintenance, troubleshooting, repair and follow-up break-fix of the server and other hardware 5. Maintain data on internal systems including asset management, ticketing, rack related data 6. Work with remote vendors or other teams to solve hardware batch failures and problems 7. On-call on duty, responsible for dealing with the problems raised by the business owner side 8. Collect and check online assets status or issues 9. Erase drives or other configurations for retiring or relocating servers. 10. Provide retrofitting or test feedback for tools/systems/platforms. 11. Submit and track the part RMA or media destruction process 12. Server network troubleshooting 13. Server lifecycle management 14. Other server operation related work 15. Tidy and escalate problems to senior SOE Service requirements 1. Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Computer science, Electrical engineering or any other relevant fields 2. Strong ability to work under pressure; Strong learning ability, broad technical interest; Strong sense of responsibility, full of enthusiasm for work 3. Good communication skills in English, good team work spirit; Has ability to work independently 4. Knowledge of the interdependencies of server functions and technologies 5. Can understand and run simple Shell/Bash scripts 6. Familiar with Linux system, able to locate hardware faults; Strong analytical and problem solving skills 7. Basic network knowledge concepts - MAC, Subnet, TCP/IP; Ability to perform general troubleshooting 8. Knowledge of out-of-band/lights-out server communication methods, such as IPMI