I've posted this on Facebook and in the IRC chat room, sorry this is my first introduction to you all, I had hoped to get to a meet before posting!

My Linux sysadmin has dropped a bit of a bombshell in that he has a new job starting on 5th August - and I am away from Friday through to the 9th August which can't be cancelled.  I need somebody who is able to come in and do a handover this week, to cover for at first two weeks.  Clearly you must be an experienced sysadmin and capable of picking things up quickly.  I will also need references and whatnot due to the nature of the job.  Just to be clear I run this business, I'm not an agency, and it is a real job!

We are a web design & open source business run along ethical lines (I'm Buddhist and run the business along those lines) - www.viryatechnologies.com with offices at Mallard House Business Centre in Little Bealings.  Our main line of work server-wise is web servers, mostly running CentOS.  We have several servers ourselves both dedi's and VPS's, and we look after servers for clients. We also run Kubuntu throughout the office on all our machines.

We also have an emergency support service which is by the nature unpredictable, often involving compromised servers which we have to analyse, investigate and fix.  We also do ad-hoc work such as applying updates etc for clients who don't have an ongoing support contract with us but need the work doing on an ad-hoc basis.

The work would mainly be general day to day maintenance, backup checking (we push to AWS & Glacier), etc and dealing with any support tickets that might come up.  Also  may involve installing software, configuration etc.

If you can code we can also provide some coding work if you are interested, mostly PHP based (we specialise in Joomla! and have several extensions we sell which need work, and a few in the sidelines which need migrating to 3.x).

Salary is negotiable and there is very definitely the opportunity for ongoing work for the right person, but right now I am looking for someone to step in and help us in a difficult spot - if you are interested please email me asap, ideally I would like to be meeting you in the next couple of days.

Thanks in advance, and sorry again that my first post is a 'please can you help me out' post!

Ruth Cheesley

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