Systems Engineer
About Huddle
Universally recognised as one of the Europe’s premier tech start-ups, Huddle has been named a potential ‘next Google’ and one of top 50 global start-ups by BusinessWeek and one of the Financial Times’ top 10 British start-up companies.
Huddle’s social collaboration platform is the winner of multiple awards, including TechCrunch’s Best EMEA Enterprise app, Tech Media Invest’s Innovation Award and BCS’ Internet Product of the Year, and more. Thousands of businesses including P&G, Pearson, Panasonic and UNICEF and a number of UK and US government departments trust Huddle.
The position
Well funded and growing quickly, Huddle is looking for a talented, motivated and dedicated Systems Engineer to join our rapidly expanding team at its Bermondsey office. Reporting to the Systems Architect, this position has the following responsibilities:
Responsibilities
- Support and maintain office IT infrastructure: servers, workstations, laptops, networking, VOIP phones, Internet links.
- Provide desktop support for Huddle employees both within and outside the office.
- Centralised administration of Active Directory, DNS, anti-virus, server and workstation backups, shared mailboxes.
- Maintain and support the development infrastructure (development and test rigs, build servers, source control, databases).
- Provide developer support for environment and configuration issues.
- Develop ad-hoc and packaged database reports to support customer services, marketing and sales.
- Maintain systems for analysing performance and usage of the Huddle website.
- Assist in managing the Huddle application production environment, responding to system alerts, troubleshooting errors, deploying releases.
- Assist in architectural design to support future performance and scalability of our production system.
- Liaison with our hosting provider for issues with our production hardware.
Required experience & qualifications
- 3+ years’ experience supporting and maintaining a Microsoft Windows-based corporate IT infrastructure and/or production-scale websites.
- Some experience working alongside development and QA teams using an Agile methodology.
- Knowledge of Active Directory, DNS and Windows server administration tools.
- Competence with Microsoft Office.
- In-depth knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server and IIS in a commercial environment.
- Excellent understanding of TCP/IP-based networking.
- Comfortable working on rack-mounted appliances, patch panels, etc.
- Some expertise with scripting languages (batch files, PowerShell, SQL, Ruby/Rake, XML, NAnt).
- Familiarity with C# and ASP.NET, Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio. Some PHP and MySQL skills will be an advantage.
About you
- Your aim will be to work in a fast-paced start-up environment and share in the excitement of growing a global online business
- You are committed to providing excellent IT services to your colleagues in Huddle and a first-rate website for Huddle’s customers.
- You have a conscientious approach to change control, documentation and testing.
- You are driven, dedicated and motivated by constant improvement
To apply
Please send your CV and covering letter explaining why you are the right person for this job to jobs@huddle.net
