Systems Administrator

Job description

A big hello from the team at Compucorp!

We’re on the lookout for an exceptional systems administrator to join our growing team. Your work will have significant impact and the role will expose you to working on a range of open source projects for the not for profit sector.

You will be working with the development and QA teams, reporting directly to the CTO to define the deployment tools and processes in Compucorp. You will be very hands-on technically but also you will mentor and guide the more junior members of the systems administration team.

The main responsibilities of this role include:

1. Develop and maintain production infrastructure and mission-critical internal systems.
2. Liaise with Development, QA and management teams to define and deliver the strategic needs of the company infrastructure.
3. Stay up to date with security best practices and integrate security at every level of the stack.
4. Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure issues for live client environments.
5. Provide infrastructure architecture advice for Compucorp development teams.
6. Investigate new infrastructure technology and solutions.
7. Mentor and train junior systems administrators.

Location

At Compucorp we are a distributed team and we welcome people to join us from all around the world. However, as a UK-based company, some overlap with UK hours will be required. By default, you should assume that your working hours would be +/- 3h max from GMT start times of 9.00AM UK start time. There is some flexibility in this but please be aware that staff members starting outside of these hours are rare and, as such, if you would expect these hours to be an issue for you then we would not suggest that you apply. Due to EU data protection requirements, DevOps/SysAdmin team members must be from either an EEA country or a country that the EU considers to have an adequate level of data protection. The list can be found at the link below:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-prote...

Skills & requirements

Required skills:

1. Excellent Linux administration skills.
2. Significant experience writing Bash and Python scripts for tasks automation
3. Significant experience in developing automation using Ansible.
4. PHP web server experience (NGINX preferable).
5. Database administration experience (Mysql or equivalent).
6. Experience with cloud technologies, (our stack is mainly AWS).
7. Experience with monitoring platforms in production
8. Exposure to CI/CD.
9. Good Git skills.
10. Strong collaboration, written and verbal skills.
11. Must love creating awesome documentation!

Desired skills:

1. Previous PHP deployment automation
2. Experience with Drupal administration
3. Experience with containerisation in production

‍

About Compucorp

Our mission is to enable digital transformation in organisations that deliver social good. We work with Charities across their digital stack helping organisations to rebuild their processes using flexible open source tools. We help organisations reimagine the way they work so they can focus on impact.

We're a bootstrapped startup that has grown to over 35 in the team based solely on word of mouth from the work we've been producing. We’re a distributed team, with staff in over 15 countries and a head office in Shoreditch, London. We offer flexible hours and a real “team” mentality, working together to make things better.

Uniquely, all our solutions are open source, helping our work to have the greatest possible impact. Our clients include Charities such as Wikimedia, Farm Africa and Amnesty International, but also companies, trade associations and government bodies too.

‍