Senior System Administrator (Federated Identity)

<p><span>HEAnet – Senior System Administrator (Federated Identity)</span></p> <p><br/></p> <p><span>We are looking for a Senior SysAdmin with experience in Federated Identity services and containerisation to join our Linux Administrators on the Systems Team. This role will help lead our delivery of Federated Identity Services and the successful candidate will provide guidance to strategic and operation decisions within the team.</span></p> <p><br/></p> <p><span><span>What the Systems </span><span>Team</span><span> does</span></span></p> <p><br/></p> <p>The Systems Team drives the deployment and maintenance of HEAnet’s systems and services. The Team responsibilities fall into 3 streams:</p> <p><br/></p> <ul> <li><span> </span><span>Core infrastructure: </span>This is a combination of virtual infrastructure, physical servers, and appliances, spread across our datacentres, and now an increasing foothold in containerisation and the Cloud. Essential for smooth operation is the automation and management of these resources.</li> <li><span> </span><span>Internal Services: </span>All the pieces that go on behind the scenes to be able to deliver services, such as monitoring, logging, load balancers, database clusters, storage, authentication, as well as providing tools and services to other internal technical teams.</li> <li><span> </span><span>External Services:</span> All the above help us to provide a diverse range of shared services to IT departments, educators, learners and researchers. Some of our more widely used services include Identity and Access Management (Edugate), Wi-Fi roaming (eduroam), large file transfers, and video related services including video conferencing and, live &amp; on-demand streaming.</li> </ul> <p><br/></p> <p><span>How we do it</span></p> <p><br/></p> <p>Our company values underpin how we do things in HEAnet. We believe in and live by our values and understand they are integral to making</p> <p><br/></p> <p>                                                                                                       </p> <p><span>Positive                 Future                Empowered         Enjoy It            Equality &amp;          We Share</span></p> <p><span>Impact                  Focused               Decision                                       Fairness </span></p> <p><span>                                                           Making                                   </span></p> <p><br/></p> <p><span>For further information about who we are and our core values, see</span><span> </span><span><a href="https://www.heanet.ie/who-we-are/who-we-are" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.heanet.ie/who-we-are/who-we-are</a><a href="https://www.heanet.ie/who-we-are/who-we-are" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a></span></p> <p><br/></p> <p><span><span>What you get from us</span></span></p> <p><br/></p> <p><span>From the team</span></p> <p><br/></p> <p>We value knowledge-sharing and communication. We start each week with a team meeting to cover outstanding issues and planned work for the week. You will also have a 1:1 meeting every one to two weeks with your manager. Every Friday we have presentations from anyone in the company on a wide range of topics from technical demos to project management to mental health. We have a mix of remote and hybrid team members, so we use Teams to stay connected, with regular coordinated teams in the office to maintain relationships with team member</p> <p><br/></p> <p>We encourage critical thinking and the exploration of innovative ideas. We often form cross-team special interest groups for specific topic discussions, both ongoing and for fixed projects. By design we encourage that the engineering standards that we set are influenced from the ground up, as the people working within the standards are the ones most informed.</p> <p><br/></p> <p>We provide a diverse workload. Everyone on the team has a core responsibility to a service or piece of infrastructure, but we limit individual performance objectives to a max of 30%, so you will get to work in multiple areas with different team members.</p> <p><br/></p> <p>We promote a healthy work/life balance. Work outside of standard hours is rare and agreed on in advance. We take the care of our team members' mental health seriously.</p> <p><br/></p> <p><span><span>Our Technology stack, current and in development:</span></span></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li><span> </span><span><span>OS: </span></span><span>Ubuntu / CentOS / Redhat</span></li> <li><span> </span><span><span>Virtualisation:</span></span><span> VMWare NSX-T</span></li> <li><span> </span><span><span>Infrastructure:</span></span><span> Physical Datacentres/ AWS / Azure</span></li> <li><span> </span><span><span>Containerisation:</span></span><span> Docker Swarm / Kubernetes (K3S)</span></li> <li><span> </span><span><span>Network:</span></span><span> Optical (DWDM) / MPLS / IP / ISIS / BGP / VXLAN </span></li> <li><span> </span><span><span>Databases: </span></span>