Senior System Engineer | Linux | Up to $6.5K per month – J.T.

A glimpse of what you’ll do:

• Responsible for the administration and maintenance of Linux servers, RedHat Virtualization and Ansible, to:

1. Provide day-to-day systems administration and operations, including 24 x 7 standby
2. Plan and perform installation, configuration and migration of OS and related hardware and software
3. Plan and perform scheduled preventive maintenance, OS patching/upgrades/hardening, after-office hours
4. Troubleshoot incidents, system problems and handle escalations to vendors
5. Provide system performance tuning, optimization and capacity planning
6. Automate tasks and workflows, through shell, Ansible, Python, Ruby scripts and programming, including provisioning / deprovisioning of Virtual Machines (VMs), patching, configurations, software deployment, monitoring and integration with other tools
7. Establish, standardize and maintain systems backup that is in line with recovery strategy
8. Establish, standardize and maintain best practice processes, procedures, system documentation and reports so as to streamline and enhance the operational environment
9. Provide technical support and advice for projects
10. Fulfil service requests and change requests
11. Proactively contribute to continual improvement programs
12. Work/collaborate with other teams and vendors, where applicable
13. Provide progress reports and to escalate issues to supervisor
14. Work with various teams (VMWare, NetBackup, & hardware) as needed to support the infrastructure.
15. Keep abreast of new technologies and its applicability to their area of work

What you’ll need:

• Degree/Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent fields
• At least 6 years’ experience in administration of Linux Servers in an enterprise environment
• Strong technical knowledge and experience in administration and maintenance of Linux(RedHat Linux/SUSE/CentOS)including:

1. Clustering (Pacemaker cluster)
2. RedHat Virtualization or Oracle KVM (oVirt)
3. Storage Admin/SAN technology, in particular, from System perspective
4. System and network security, including use of RBAC
5. SSH/SFTP/SSL
6. DR implementation
7. Shell Scripting (Unix shell) Ansible, Python and/or Ruby will be an added advantage
8. Knowledge of containers, Kubernetes and DevOps, Web servers, Tomcat will be an added advantage

• Certifications in the above administration skills will be an added advantage
• Ability to prioritize assignments while working on multiple projects
• Good security, audit, and compliance knowledge
• Good team player who is highly motivated, independent, goal oriented and possesses workplace initiative
• Good interpersonal, communications and presentation skills (verbal/written)
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, with attention to details

Benefits

• AL: up to 21 days
• ML: 14 days
• Flexibenefit: $660 per year
• Bonuses: total package ranging from 14-15 months

Interested applicants: kindly submit your resume to [email protected]