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We are looking for a skilled senior IT Engineer with a broad rangeof experience across infrastructure, software, IT and IT security/cyber.
On offer is hybrid working with close access from the A14.
This businessbuilds and delivers software and services that truly changes peoples lives!
Details as follows:
Key responsibilities:
- Manage and maintain hosting sites to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and security.
- Administer databases to support the storage and retrieval of educational content, user data, and other critical information.
- Implement and maintain backup solutions to safeguard against data loss and ensure business continuity.
- Conduct regular security assessments, vulnerability scans, and penetration tests to identify and address potential security risks.
- Monitor system logs, analyse security incidents, and respond to incidents in a timely manner.
- Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement proactive measures to prevent downtime.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate best practices and support the development and deployment of new features and enhancements.
- Stay current with industry trends and best practices to continuously improve our infrastructure and processes.
- Proven experience as a system administrator or similar, with a focus on hosting sites, databases, and information security.
- Proficiency in administering Linux server environments.
- Strong understanding of information security principles, standards, and best practices. Experience with ISO 27001 is highly advantageous.
- K nowledge of web hosting technologies highly advatagous, including any of thw following- Apache, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, Django and PWAs, their rolling updates, red/black deployments and roll-backs.
- Experience with virtualisation technologies such as Docker and with continuous integration pipelines (e.g. Bitbucket pipelines) is a plus.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform and/or hosting solutions such as Rackspace, SiteGround, Ionos or similar.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, effective communication and collaboration.
- Commitment to upholding security best practices and data privacy standards.
