Job description

We’re on the lookout for an exceptional systems administrator to join our growing team. Your work will have significant impact and the role will expose you to working on a range of open source projects for the not for profit sector.

You will be working with the development and QA teams, reporting directly to the CTO to define the deployment tools and processes in company. You will be very hands-on technically but also you will mentor and guide the more junior members of the systems administration team.

The main responsibilities of this role include:

1. Develop and maintain production infrastructure and mission-critical internal systems.


2. Liaise with Development, QA and management teams to define and deliver the strategic needs of the company infrastructure.


3. Stay up to date with security best practices and integrate security at every level of the stack.


4. Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure issues for live client environments.


5. Provide infrastructure architecture advice for company development teams.


6. Investigate new infrastructure technology and solutions.


7. Mentor and train junior systems administrators.

1. Excellent Linux administration skills.


2. Significant experience writing Bash and Python scripts for tasks automation


3. Significant experience in developing automation using Ansible.


4. PHP web server experience (NGINX preferable).


5. Database administration experience (Mysql or equivalent).


6. Experience with cloud technologies, (our stack is mainly AWS).


7. Experience with monitoring platforms in production


8. Exposure to CI/CD.


9. Good Git skills.


10. Strong collaboration, written and verbal skills.


11. Must love creating awesome documentation!