Senior System Administrator

📋 Job Overview

The company provides VPS and dedicated server hosting for FX brokers and traders. We are looking for a reliable, hands-on Senior Systems Administrator who can support customer-facing infrastructure and contribute to technical improvement projects. This is a long-term part-time role for someone comfortable working independently with production systems, customer issues, and business-critical infrastructure.

🏢 About the company

The company specializes in providing VPS and dedicated server hosting solutions for FX brokers and traders, ensuring reliable and high-performance infrastructure for their clients.

🎯 The Role

This is a long-term part-time role for someone comfortable working independently with production systems, customer issues, and business-critical infrastructure. The role requires approximately 10–15 hours per week, with availability during 10:00–18:00 CET as needed. The schedule is flexible, but the ability to respond and support the team within these hours is important.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Administer and troubleshoot Windows and Linux servers.
• Support Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware environments.
• Diagnose issues with Dell and Supermicro servers.
• Resolve customer incidents involving VPS, dedicated servers, virtualisation, and connectivity.
• Maintain Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, backups, and monitoring.
• Support data centre infrastructure, storage, and networking.
• Participate in upgrades, migrations, and infrastructure improvement projects.
• Maintain clear technical documentation and follow change-management procedures.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of systems, infrastructure, or data-centre experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Windows Server and Linux.
• Strong hands-on experience with Hyper-V and VMware.
• Strong hands-on experience with Dell and/or Supermicro servers.
• Strong hands-on experience with server and virtualisation troubleshooting.
• Strong customer-facing experience in technical support or infrastructure operations, with the ability to troubleshoot issues and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical users.
• Experience in data centres, hosting, managed services, or another 24/7 infrastructure environment.
• Good understanding of networking, storage, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Strong spoken and written English.
• Reliable, organised, and comfortable taking ownership of issues through resolution.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• VPS, dedicated hosting, or IaaS experience.
• iDRAC, IPMI, SAN/NAS or Veeam.
• PowerShell, Bash, Python, or Ansible.
• Experience in fintech, trading, telecom, broadcast, or other mission-critical environments.

🎁 Benefits

Independent contractor. Approximately 10–15 hours per week. Remote, primarily during European business hours. Rotating on-call coverage by agreement.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

No specific visa or eligibility information provided.