Senior Systems Administrator

Recruiter:

Six Sense Consulting

Job Ref:

SSC001091/MS

Date posted:

Monday, February 16, 2026

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

Salary:

Annually

SUMMARY:
A well-established business is seeking to appoint a Senior Systems Administrator.

POSITION INFO:
Qualification:

B.Tech IT with 13+ years; OR
B.Eng/B.Sc Hons IT 9+ years

Experience:

9 years of relevant experience includes:
System Administrator oriented role, preferably in a high-performance computing environment

Knowledge:

Linux system installation, configuration and administration
Operating systems (Windows, Linux, Ubuntu, etc.)
Security (intrusion detection, data backup/recovery)
Scripting (Python, C C++ Programming Language)
Databases (SQL etc.)
Hardware (server hardware, storage systems and other related components)
Infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
Distributed monitoring and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic)
Distributed logging (e.g., ELK stack)
Deployment (e.g., MaaS, FAI)
Virtualisation and containerisation (e.g., Openstack, proxmox, DockerContinuous integration (e.g., Jenkins, Buildbot, Github Actions)
Distributed Storage (e.g., Ceph, Lustre, MinIO)
Knowledge of high-performance computing infrastructure
Knowledge of Ethernet networks

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