Systems Administrator

At Xanadu Consultancy, we develop sophisticated products for the online sports betting industry. We have developed and deployed a modern, distributed, high-performance platform across multiple data centres. We are now recruiting for System Administrator to join our expanding and dynamic team.

What is the role of the System Administrator?

• Responsible for the network and server infrastructure in our colocation and cloud locations that power our development and production workloads
• Build and maintain the physical and logical network services for our offices worldwide
• Be proactive in supporting base services such as DNS, Identify (IAM) and NTP
• Drive changes that improve our security posture as a company (refining our policies, auditing logs, improvements to access control, employee training, etc)
• Work with members of the development, devops and production support teams to recognise, propose and later implement changes to our infrastructure stack with a strong emphasis on security and availability.
• Work with third parties to manage and troubleshoot issues remotely or on-site.
• Regular documentation updates for changes or new implementations of underlying infrastructure and base services

What we are looking for?

• Hands-on experience deploying on-premise, colocated and cloud-based server and network equipment
• Extensive Linux knowledge (ideally Debian/Ubuntu based)
• Extensive TCP/IP knowledge and troubleshooting ability
• Thorough knowledge of virtualisation products such as KVM, QEmu
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon ECS and/or Google Kubernetes Engine
• Experience with common network services like Bind9, Apache, Nginx, syslog, haproxy, NTP
• Experience with Ansible, Puppet, Salt and similar tools
• Strong security awareness & ability to deploy solutions consistent with security policy
• Ability to work with different teams and projects at the same time while prioritizing tasks based on business needs
• Ability to undertake medium-sized IT projects as instructed by the Management and complete them to an agreed standard with minimal supervision
• Attention to detail

Bonus points for...

• Deployment and automation of configuration management for Cisco, Dell, Mikrotik, pfSense and HP network equipment
• Experience building, extending and maintaining IAM solutions
• MySQL and Cassandra database cluster administration experience
• Familiarity with HAProxy deployment, configuration and operational improvements
• Scripting and automation skills and experience (bash, python, golang

Xanadu is an equal opportunities employer.