Senior Systems Administrator: Storage and Virtualisation Expert

HEAnet is Ireland’s National Education & Research Network, providing high quality Internet Services to the 180,000 students and staff in Irish Universities, Institutes of Technology, and the research and education community including primary and post-primary schools. It provides a high-speed national network with direct connectivity for its community to other networks in Ireland, Europe, the USA and the rest of the world.

HEAnet has a lot to offer candidates such as a competitive remuneration package (including pension, company sponsored health care, flexible starting times and generous annual leave); a technologically challenging and cutting edge working environment and an annual performance management and development process.

HEAnet are seeking a Storage and Virtualisation Expert to work as part of a small team to design, implement, maintain and support advanced system and networking services to the Research and Education sector in Ireland.

Duties:

The successful candidate will undertake the following:

• Building resilient internet services
• Designing scaleable high speed / high availability data storage and compute environments
• Driving adoption of HEAnet’s storage and virtualisation services
• Working with clients to research requirements for new services
• Designing service provisioning tools
• Managing the platforms which deliver HEAnet’s suite of services
• Participation in research projects with clients and peers

Experience:

Essential:

• Minimum six (6) years experience of Linux, Unix or Unix-like Systems Administration, ideally in an internet service business, providing server and network management support for internal and external customers;
• Experience with system administration of WAN and LAN storage attached network technology;
• Two (2) or more years working with virtualised hardware and software;

Desirable:

• Experience designing and/or operating cloud management platforms;
• Working with operations teams to deliver services to end users;
• Experience with, and research of the novel storage and compute virtualisation software/services.

Skills and Aptitudes:

Essential:

• Expert system administration & technical analysis skills;
• Experience building and managing virtual server environments;
• Very familiar with networking technology;
• Expert with internet service architectures;
• Expert with storage fabric management;
• Storage service expertise: architectural and operational competences;
• Excellent Communication Skills – verbal & written.

Desirable:

• Expertise with hypervisors and cloud management platforms, e.g. one or more of :
  • Vmware, KVM, XEN;
  • OpenNebula, CloudStack, vCloud, etc.
• Expertise with Internet services, including:
  • DNS, HTTP;
  • Thorough understanding of internet networking (TCP/IP) and technologies for deploying highly resilient services.
• Expert with Linux/Unix system administration tools, including:
  • Comprehensive knowledge of modern Linux OSes - preferably Ubuntu and Debian;
  • Expert with scripting tools, eg: bash, Perl, awk, sed, etc.
• Familiar with networking techonologies, including:
  • Resilient high speed network architecture design and implementation;
  • Switching technologies e.g. VLANs, HSRP.
• Familiar with system monitoring software (e.g. cacti, MRTG, Smokeping, Icinga, Nagios, rancid);
• System profiling tools;
• Routers and routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, IS/IS);
• Router and switch system hardware architecture.

Personal Characteristics:

Essential:

• Proven ability to work as part of a team and as an individual;
• Friendly, collaborative approach;
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

Education:

• Educated to degree level in Computer Science / Computer Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience.

Location:

The successful candidate will be based at HEAnet's office, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin 1.

Salary: 

[Senior Network Engineer /Senior Systems Engineer /Senior Systems Admin] (dependent on experience and qualifications).

Closing Date:

Friday 7th June 2013.

How to Apply:

Interested applicants should send their CV to careers@heanet.ie