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FreeBSD Systems Administrator in Oxford, UK
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2006-08-08 12:31:14
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/Reponsibilities:

* 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 Apache, SSL, mod_perl, Squid/Web
Proxies, 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.

* The ideal candidate will have excellent English and a
strong telephone 
manner, they must be comfortable dealing with people at all
levels of an 
organisation and be familiar with some marketing
terminology.

* 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 & hours of work

* The role will be based in Adestra's Oxford offices. The
role will run 
for an initial trial period of 3 months, and if successful
will continue 
on a permanent basis.

* You will be working primarily out of our Oxford office
with our 
development team to provide services and support for our
staff and 
clients. Occasional visits to our hosting provider in bond
will be 
necessary as well as possible out-of-hours callouts.

* Salary negotiable depending on skills and experience.

About Adestra

Adestra Ltd are a digital marketing agency that specialise
in inbound and 
outbound email, fax and SMS broadcast solutions. We work
with clients in 
many markets including publishing, entertainment, travel and
charities. 
Adestra are relied upon by the key players in both B2B and
B2C 
marketplaces for bulk or highly targeted individual
campaigns.  For more 
information, please see www.adestra.co.uk

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