LINUX Systems Engineer

 

Recruiter:

Datonomy Solutions

Job Ref:

471

Date posted:

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Location:

Brackenfell, South Africa

Salary:

Market Related


JOB SUMMARY:
To assist the Team Lead in the Unix Team with rolling out new Linux systems.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Purpose of the Job

  • To assist the Team Lead in the Unix Team with rolling out new Linux systems, maintaining, upgrading, replacing, and improving the long-term performance of the systems.
  • The candidate will be responsible for the monitoring, maintenance and operation of the Linux based systems consisting of +- 460 SLES and Redhat Enterprise Linux VM's running Enterprise and Open Source Software that are key to daily business operations.

Job Objectives

  • To administer and support the Linux environments
  • Resolve Incidents and fulfil Service Requests using a service management ticket queue and Change Management processes
  • Maintaining service configurations as and when they change or are deployed
  • To build and maintain Linux server environments
  • Develop and maintain documentation for standards, processes, policies and procedures
  • Work within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval, and success of changes made to the infrastructure
  • To assist with System Availability, Performance and Monitoring
  • Ensuring the correct metrics are being monitored for system availability
  • Ensure the overall health and performance of production environment
  • To ensure information security and regulatory compliance
  • Manage server security remediation activities which will include conducting vulnerability scans and patching
  • Assist with information security practices, policies, least privilege, RBAC, encryption (GPG, SSL/TLS, PKI)
  • To assist with Disaster recovery management, procedures & documentation
  • Keep DR environment in sync with production environment
  • Assist with creation of DR plan and recovery procedures for Linux systems and applications
  • To perform Linux application administration and support
  • Perform administration on DNS Bind and Squid Proxy Servers
  • Perform administration on services and applications such as LDAP, SNMP, SMTP, Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat, JBOSS and MySQL

Qualifications

  • Essential: Grade 12 Industry Certification: LPIC (Linux Professional Institute Certification)
  • Desirable: Industry Certification: RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) Industry Certification: SUSE CLP (SUSE Certified Linux Professional)

Experience

  • Essential:
  • Extensive System Administration experience with Red Hat Linux and SUSE enterprise Linux (5+ years)
  • Proven history of incident response, diagnostic activities, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Corrective Action Plans, and advanced troubleshooting (5+ years)
  • Experience with RDS databases like MySQL, LDAP, Bind DNS service and Apache Web service (5+ years)
  • Desirable:
  • Experience working with virtualisation technologies ( 3-5years)
  • Experience in documenting environment and processes (3-5 years)

Knowledge and Skills

Essential:

  • Understanding of UNIX/Linux Fundamentals and concepts
  • Understanding of network and storage principles
  • Knowledge of industry security principles and server vulnerability remediation practices
  • In-depth knowledge of Redhat and SUSE Enterprise Linux Scripting experience, specifically with Ruby/Perl and shell scripting language to automate existing and workloads and routine system admin tasks
  • In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, BIND, LDAP and other common LAMP stack components (Linux OS, DNS, SNMP, SMTP, Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, MySQL) Experience with Squid Cache

Desirable:

  • IBM hardware knowledge
  • Disaster Recovery Planning knowledge
  • Exposure to the concepts of "cloud"
  • Experience with FTP daemons such as ProFTPD
  • Virtual environments knowledge including VMWARE, HyperV and KVM

 

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