Placement Student – System Administrator

Southampton

The Placement

This is an exciting opportunity to learn about Systems Administration in a mixed environment of hosted, Software-as-a-Service and on-premises systems. You will be joining a progressive and forward-thinking company and a highly motivated team that strives for a quality service. We look for ability and enthusiasm in our candidates.

Responsibilities will include:

• Assisting the sysadmin department in identifying and resolving LAN problems.
• Assisting the sysadmin department in identifying and resolving problems with our external infrastructure.
• System upgrades, maintenance and record keeping.
• Internal support and maintenance of our systems.
• Assessing new software on external and internal systems.
• Some web development work.
• Tracking updates and vulnerabilities in 3rd party products used by Smoothwall.

Required skills and experience

Candidates should posses the following skills and experience:

• Passed the 2nd year of any relevant degree.
• Love of computing.
• Reasonable scripting experience.
• Strong fault-finding and analytical skills.
• A methodical approach.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience using Linux and Windows
• Good knowledge of Internet technologies (eg. HTTP, DNS) and how they work.
• Sysadmin experience (even as a hobby, bring examples to interview) with at least two of the following:
• Linux
• Apache
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Microsoft Exchange and Outlook
• Google Apps
• Google App Engine

Experience of the following would be beneficial:

• Web programming in Perl or Python
• Debian or Ubuntu Linux
• Revision control software (eg. CVS or Git)
• Internet-facing server and application security
• Intrusion prevention
• Web and database clustering
• Penetration testing
• Google Apps
• Google App Engine
• Active Directory

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