Systems Platform Manager

Systems Platform Manager
6 months
Ipswich - hybrid
Inside IR35 - umbrella only

About this role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the team that develops and operates the UK's largest Public Wifi network. We need a systems administrator with strong Linux skills and experience of managing a large scale high availability platform to help support an existing legacy platform and play a part in defining the systems administration for a new platform.

The team you will be joining supports a platform that provides Wifi to premium partners, consumers and mobile customers. You will work closely with network and operational teams to ensure the existing platform is secure and maintained to ensure capacity requirements and availability targets are met.

The systems administration work on the Wifi platform is varied and could include:

• Planning large scale operating system patching
• Planning and undertaking deployment of changes
• Documenting and raising change requests
• Occasional overnight working to minimise risk of change to service
• Pro-active operational support to ensure service availability, monitoring and potentially fixing any in-life operational issues.
• Capacity management
• Deep dives and analysis of in-life issues
• Planning s...