System Admin Linux (6 months contract) - remote

Posted 3 years ago  • Barcelona, Spain
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We are looking for a System Admin who will support during 6 months our Hosting &Support team. The position is preferavbly based in one of our offices in Barcelona or Stockholm.

You will work within a team who are responsible for the 24 x 7 operation of all cloud based customer and partner environments.

Wondering what you will be doing? Here it goes!

  • Being part of a team responsible for the day to day operation of a cloud based platform
  • Proactively monitoring and maintaining environments ensuring optimal uptime
  • Building and Maintaining server environments
  • Troubleshooting any incident which may arise
  • Providing technical assistance and support to internal and external customers
  • Undertaking any planned maintenance activities.
  • Acting as primary / secondary support engineer for the 24 x 7, typically one week in every four, on call rota providing reactive support to critical failures within the production environment


We are a great match if you have:

  • Quick learner with ideally 1+ years experience in a similar position
  • Good working knowledge of Linux operating systems, including installation, configuration, system administration and troubleshooting procedures.
  • Working knowledge of IP based networking
  • Experience of managing and deploying cloud platforms ideally AWS, but otherwise Azure etc

…And we welcome:

  • Working knowledge of Automation / CI Tools
  • Scripting knowledge eg in Bash, Python or Ruby
  • Working knowledge of Databases ideally mariadb, mysql
  • Working knowledge of Windows
  • Strong analytical, multitasking and problem-solving skills
  • Flexible open-minded and pragmatic
  • Good interpersonal skills

Let’s not forget about language skills:

  • Business fluency in English, both written and spoken.
  • Any additional languages are a plus.