Linux Administrator - Spain

This is a remote role based anywhere in Spain. The successful candidate must be a permanent resident of Spain and legally authorised to work in that country.

Our Company

Autovista Group, a part of J.D. Power, provides trusted pricing and specification insights for Europe’s automotive decision makers. We have a presence in over 20 countries across Europe and Australia. We focus on the provision of automotive data, insight and intelligence to the automotive sector, offering products and solutions for every stage of a vehicles lifecycle. Deploying our experts’ skills, our depth in data, analytical precision and geographical reach, we are shaping the future of global mobility together with our clients.

The Department 

The Linux Administration Team is part of a wider IT Operations team that provides a variety of IT services to the Autovista Group business, including desktop support, storage, networking, server virtualisation, monitoring, Windows and Linux operating systems, databases, applications, and development.

The Role 

The role is specifically responsible for the creation, management and support of Autovista Group’s Linux Servers, comprising CentOS, Suse, Red Hat and Cloud hosted servers, across various environments including Development, Test and Live. The Linux Team works closely with the Database, Windows, Network and Infrastructure Teams, to ensure that the environments are performing to expectation. The team supports the Level 2/3 support teams and the Applications Developers. A key role is to support project initiatives, application design and establish Operating standards.

The Candidate 

The role is a hands-on Linux Administrator role, with a primary focus on managing and supporting the Linux servers and applications across the Autovista Group. Linux administration includes capacity planning, installation, configuration, migration, performance monitoring and tuning, security, troubleshooting, as well as how the data is stored, ensuring data backup and data recovery routines are effective. The role requires someone who is enthusiastic, has expert knowledge in Linux CentOS, Suse and Red Hat and ideally other cloud technologies such as AWS (EC2).

A can do attitude is required to be able to look at the current environment and plan how to move it forward, bringing in appropriate technologies as required – clustering etc. to ensure the supportability and manageability of the environment. Experience in database tuning and clustering is extremely beneficial.

The Benefits

We have a range of excellent group wide benefits like our fully flexible working policy, a wellbeing allowance aimed at alleviating some of the additional expenditure of working from home, reimbursements for your home workstation, paid time off for volunteering, mental and physical wellbeing support including eye care, annual flu vaccinations, an Employee Assistance Programme with free counselling and other support for you and your family, plus much more! We also want to see you develop and grow in your career and offer support via our mentoring programme and dedicated learning and development team.

Autovista Group is a Fully Flexible organisation. Our goal is for our people to feel free to work where, when and how they choose, within their country of employment, to enable colleagues to balance their personal interests with their work commitments and deliverables, to support a happier and healthier way of life. Performance will be judged on output and colleagues will be trusted to manage their working time effectively to meet work deadlines and goals whilst ensuring their wellbeing is prioritised.