System Administrator Linux

Location: The Hague, The Netherlands

Team

As the System Administrator, you will be joining a department of 30 with colleagues from various backgrounds and countries. The team members are divided into several Scrum teams covering data ingestion, APIs, and the Europeana website. Together with a Platform Engineer, you will be part of a team maintaining a constantly expanding infrastructure, ensuring availability, performance and security of the platform. 

Key Responsibilities

• Administer systems running on Linux platforms (Ubuntu/Debian)
• Perform research, analysis, problem re-creation, troubleshooting and identify potential resolutions for operating systems, application and resource contingency issues
• Maintain system security and integrity controls
• Investigate system performance issues to improve its reliability, maintainability and performance of the system
• Perform and manage deployments to production and staging environments
• Conduct daily system monitoring and system maintenance activities and further develop system monitoring capacities
• Develop and implement backup policies
• Maintain an inventory of the existing hardware and software used across the platform
• Maintain documentation related to system administration and operations
• Help to formulate policies, procedures and standards relating to system administration and management
• Work closely with the development team to support it in system-related tasks
• Occasional support for user management in office tools such as Google suite and for IT equipments

Key relationships / customers

• Head of Engineering and Data Services Director 
• Development teams
• Business and product owners

Knowledge and Experience required

• University level education in computer science or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and working experience
• 3+ years of Linux system administration experience
• Understanding and knowledge of system administration, database and server-side batch programming
• Working experience with:
  • Live production systems
  • Installation, configuration and system administration with Linux (Ubuntu/Debian) using Ansible
  • Setting up and configuring monitoring solutions like Nagios or Grafana
  • Setting up and configuration of Jenkins
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Good written and spoken English with an ability to express complex technical ideas to a non-technical audience

Further, it is a plus if you have working experience with: 

• Setting up and administering storage and index services such as  MongoDB, Apache Solr, MySQL preferably in cluster deployments
• Administration and deployment on Kubernetes or Cloud Foundry environments

Benefits

• Your monthly salary is estimated between EUR 3,200 - 4,000  (based on full-time employment), depending on the level of your experience
• Additionally, you will receive a (pro-rated) holiday allowance of 8% and an annual (year-end, pro-rated) bonus of 8.33%
• 1 year fixed term contract with possibility of extension depending on funding availability
• We offer 42.25 days of holiday per year (based on full-time employment)
• We provide a company laptop and offer a WFH allowance to compensate monthly the costs while working from home and not being able to work from the office (Covid-19 / exceptional circumstances)

How to apply

• The position is open until filled
• You must have a valid working permit to work in the Netherlands
• If you are interested in this position, please send your Curriculum Vitae plus motivation letter, both in English to jobs@europeana.eu
• Recruitment agency calls are not appreciated

The Europeana Foundation is committed to principles of diversity, inclusivity, nondiscriminatory practice and equal opportunity for all applicants.