Our parent company UK Servers has a vacancy for a datacentre engineer to work from it’s Coventry datacentre site to contribute to it’s growing success. 

We have a relaxed, friendly working environment and provide a fantastic opportunity for all new starters to thrive and rapidly learn new skills.

Required Skills/Experience:-

• Basic understanding of TCP/IP networking
• Experience building/configuring computer hardware
• Strong knowledge of Windows operating system and some exposure to Linux operating systems including CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian etc.
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Technically minded with an interest in latest technology
• A good attitude to customer service
• Ability to work on a shift basis

We’re more than happy to train an enthusiastic individual, but the ideal candidate would have the following skills:

• Experience with LAMP stack
• Comfortable using Linux at command line level
• Previous exposure to hosting control panels (cPanel/Plesk)
• Understanding of DNS systems
• Experience of using Cisco or Juniper networking equipment within a datacentre environment
• Exposure to and basic operational understanding of virtualisation technologies (VMWare, Xen, OnAPP)
• Any previous experience working/building and maintaining computer hardware in particular rackmount server equipment from Supermicro/Dell/HP.

Key Responsibilities:

Our customers are from a wide range of industries and as we offer a number of different solutions to customers the work is varied however typical tasks include:

• Deployment of new physical, virtual and cloud solutions to customers.
• Configuring and racking new Juniper and Cisco switches and routers.
• Configuration of backups using Veeam, R1 Soft and other technologies.
• Deployment and management of private cloud solutions using VMWare and OnAPP.
• Building and upgrading rackmount servers of our own infrastructure and that of customers.
• Managing and deployment of load balanced hosting environments within linux environments

Working hours:

This is an onsite role based in the network operations centre at our Coventry datacentre which would involve 12 hour shifts in a 4 on 4 off pattern with a holiday allowance of 25 shifts. Shifts alternate between day shifts (7AM-6PM) and nightshift (7:30PM-7:30AM).

A competitive salary is offered dependent upon qualifications, ability and experience.  Please do not contact us if you are from an employment agency.  CV’s/applications should only be sent to recruitment@ukservers.com