FreeBSD Systems Administrator in Oxford, UK

[Carl Chambers]

UNIX/FreeBSD Systems Administrator

We're looking for a skilled FreeBSD Administrator to join our fast
growing Oxford-based company to take responsibility of our server
cluster. You should have some commercial experience managing production
systems and experience with FreeBSD, be comfortable working remotely 
with co-located servers and experience with network security and backup
systems including planning and recovery. You will be responsible for
installing, configuring, securing and maintaining our existing network 
as well as new servers as required.

Skills/Responsibilities:

* Commercial FreeBSD experience
* Network and system security
* Backup/recovery management and disaster recovery provisions
* Managing company systems such as email and intranet services
* Experience with high volume email servers
* Experience with PostgreSQL administration would be very favourable
* Perl and/or shell scripting skills would be helpful
* Web services such as Lighttpd, SSL, FastCGI, Varnish Proxy, DNS,
PHP, Mysql

* Experience with high throughput and high availability email services
and performance tuning would be very advantageous.
* Programming experience (C or Perl mainly, but also PHP, Python, Ruby,
etc) would also be helpful.

Personal Characteristics

* A self starter who is willing to learn and take ownership of project 
in a key role for Adestra.  Able to work with limited supervision and 
show initiative where relevant, the individual will be confident, bright 
and happy to share and discuss ideas with others.

* A good humoured team player, the ideal candidate will take pride in
their work and be able to thrive in a fairly pressurised environment

* Salary negotiable depending on skills and experience.

Applicant should send a short overview of their relevant experience and 
a copy of their CV to jobs at adestra.com.