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- Location: Brighton Office – Hybrid working.
- Contract type: Full time employee, 37.5 hours per week on a shift pattern 6am – 11pm. Role will include some weekend on call cover
Role
InCrowd is expanding its operational infrastructure support team. With new clients across Europe, Australasia and North America we are building a 24×7 support function for our core technologies, infrastructure data security requirements.
The Junior Systems Administrator / DevOps role will principally be focussed on supporting the systems that are used by our Backend & Data Teams – this includes technologies like Greenplum DB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowplow, Kubernetes, Ceph Storage Clusters, Prefect Server and Dremio.
This role is available on a full time (37.5 hours per week) permanent contract basis and your working pattern will include working flexible shifts between 6am and 11:30 pm and on-call rota with the rest of the team to cover weekends (daytime). Bank Holiday hours will be paid back as time off in lieu.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing & Maintaining our Dremio and Snowplow clusters
- Maintaining and Administering systems on AWS and locally
- Installing, configuring and maintaining software, hardware and networks
- Monitoring system performance and troubleshooting issues
- Ensuring the security and efficiency of IT infrastructure
- Upgrade systems with new releases and models
- Managing user accounts and access levels
- Assisting Data Engineers in implementing processes and procedures for deploying code to Development, Staging and Production environments
Key Candidate Requirements:
- Recent Computer Science Graduate or equivalent experience in the area of systems administration and IT support
- Accuracy and Attention to detail
- Time management and prioritisation ability
- Communication and and presentation skills
- Skilled at analytical thinking and problem solving
- A team player. Being part of the overall Systems and Infrastructure team sometimes means out of hours work might be required
- Keen to learn!
Preferred Candidate Requirements:
- Knowledge of AWS or other cloud hosting platforms
- Experience in database installation, configuration or management, would be beneficial but not required.
- Some experience in containerisation with Docker/ Kubernetes would be beneficial
- A good background knowledge of sport would be very welcome but is not essential
Working For InCrowd
InCrowd is a team of highly skilled individuals with a healthy, friendly, creative and relaxed environment. There are often sporting and team events you can join if you wish and we like to nurture and support each other – research groups, training and conference budgets are part of our culture.
InCrowd is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. InCrowd does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status.
As an employer, InCrowd offers:
- Actively supporting development and training
- Company benefits, including cycle to work and discounted Sky , mobile phone and working equipment schemes
- Access to high profile sports events
- Support for additional training and education.
- Social events throughout the year both in person and online
- Opportunity for career progression in a fast-developing team.
- Hybrid work offering
Up for the challenge?
The recruitment process will focus primarily on your values and energy for the role. Send your CV and something that shows why you’re perfect the right person for the job! This can be anything; a supporting email, a video or perhaps a case study of previous work….. the team want to find out more about you. Please email everything to jobs@incrowdsports.com
