We’re looking for a Senior IT Technician who can help us build and support our alternative take on mobile search. Our ideal candidate will be a recent graduate with exceptional interpersonal skills and capable of maintaining a positive attitude in the most frustrating of circumstances!

The role will include many responsibilities, but broadly covering:

• First-line support to staff, assisting with laptops and desktops (Windows, Mac and Linux)
• Office IT infrastructure: networking, printers, cabling, desk moves etc
• IT purchasing, returns, stock management etc
• Linux maintenance (installing, patching, troubleshooting)
• Server farm support: installations, repairs, diagnosing problems

Academic Requirements

• good “A” levels demonstrating science and mathematical skills
• a degree in a science or engineering subject OR equivalent industry experience and track record

As a minimum, our ideal candidate will have:

• Good familiarity with linux
• General purpose scripting skills, including bash and perl or python
• Good Mac/Windows support knowledge
• Basic networking knowledge (TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS)
• A good degree
• A misspent youth providing IT support to friends and family
• Several machines at home, only one currently in operation, the rest in various states of disrepair cluttering up every spare drawer, shelf and cupboard
• A subconscious distrust of emacs users (not that we’re opinionated or anything)

The small print:

There will be occasional out-of-hours work to help minimise office disruption, and, when sufficiently trained, the role includes participation in the 24-hour on-call rota. Candidates should be aware the role will include some physical work crawling under desks, cable routing, unpacking and racking (some very beautiful) 19″ servers etc. There will be some travel required when working on the server farms located off-site in various facilities requiring a UK driving licence.

If you are interested, please send your CV and cover letter to givemeajob@taptu.com.

Please NO Agencies – We WILL route you to /dev/null

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