Associate Sys Admin - Compute

Visa Visa · Fintech · Basingstoke, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Associate Systems Administrator responsible for supporting critical applications and ensuring service stability through maintenance, automation, root cause analysis, and remediation. The role involves infrastructure operations and production support of container technologies and orchestration platforms like Docker UCP, Kubernetes, and OpenShift. Key responsibilities include deployment, configuration, scaling, and management of containerized applications, contributing to automation and self-service patterns for GenAI workloads, and working with tools within the Kubernetes ecosystem and configuration management tools. The position also requires security remediation, documentation of operational procedures, and adherence to ITIL practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Infrastructure Operations and Production Support of container technologies and orchestration platforms (Docker UCP, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
  2. OpenShift/Docker/Kubernetes deployment, configuration, scaling and management of containerized applications.
  3. Contribute to automation and self‑service patterns (templates, scripts, IaC modules) that enable rapid, standardized environment creation for experimentation and production GenAI workloads
  4. Openshift Enterprise Support
  5. Working with tools surrounding the Kubernetes ecosystem such as helm, kubeadm, Sysdig, Prometheus, Grafana, FluentD etc.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science / computer engineering, Information Systems or related field.
  • Minimum GPA of 3.0 out of 4.0 (or equivalent scale)

Nice to have

  • Six months of Unix/Linux system administration/Containers experience preferred
  • Scripting knowledge/experience (Python)
  • Knowledge in Cloud platforms preferred (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform etc.)
  • Knowledge in Configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible, terraform etc.)
  • Basic understanding of ITIL v4 processes such as Incident, Change, Problem and Release Management
  • Good knowledge of networking concepts like TCP/IP, DNS and DHCP
  • Experience working with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) and SharePoint
  • Good understanding of Software Engineering concepts and methodologies
  • Perform root cause analysis and track defect resolution to completion
  • Team player who can work independently with general supervision
  • Work closely with application teams in ensuring best practices are followed and the infrastructure automation can be self-service
  • Self-motivated with the ability to exercise independent judgment with minimal direction from supervisor
  • Ability to coordinate activities within cross-divisional and cross-functional teams
  • Excellent verbal, written, skills demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally
  • Ability to understand and adopt processes, project management techniques, methodologies, and best practices
  • Be scheduled On-Call to support the infrastructure and our systems
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills