Junior System Administrator

Servers we look after for German clients need patching, backups and checks during the German working day, which is the middle of the night in Seattle. The Ninth Seat is therefore hiring a Junior System Administrator in Germany. You will work full-time and remote from anywhere in the country, and the team in Seattle starts nine hours after you.

Scope

• Patch and update Linux and Windows servers on a fixed schedule
• Check backups and run a test restore every month
• Manage user accounts, groups and permissions in Active Directory and on Linux
• Watch monitoring alerts and work through the first checks before passing an issue on
• Keep the server inventory and runbooks current

Prerequisites

• Completed IT training, for example as a Fachinformatiker for system integration, or a degree in computer science
• Linux on the command line, including installing packages and reading logs
• Windows Server basics: Active Directory users, groups and group policies
• Networking basics: IP addressing, DNS and DHCP

Optional

• Bash or PowerShell scripts you wrote
• VMware or Proxmox
• LPIC-1, CompTIA Linux+ or a Microsoft certification

Conditions

• 30 days of paid holiday
• Company pension scheme with an employer contribution
• Annual budget for training and cloud certifications
• Laptop and equipment for your home office
• Flexible working hours around the overlap with Seattle

Company
The Ninth Seat is a platform engineering firm in Seattle. We build and repair the cloud environments, monitoring and release pipelines that business applications run on, and agree the systems and checks for each assignment in writing.
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