Level 3 Linux Engineer / Systems Administrator - Johannesburg
Salary Negotiable
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Johannesburg,
Gauteng
more than 14 days ago
21-05-2017 7:55:12 PM
18-06-2017 7:55:12 PM
A large managed IT Solutions company based in Sandton is currently looking for a Level3 Linux Engineer/Systems Administrator to start as soon as possible.
Salary: R25 000 – R35 000
Requirements:
- Senior Certificate
- Tertiary qualification
- 5 years of experience in managing complex Linux based IT environments
- Install, configure and maintain CentOS 5/6/7 and RHEL 5/6/7
- Virtualisation (KVM/ OpenStack / XEN / AWS / Hetzner) (2 years' experience)
- Monitoring Systems (Cacti/Nagios / Zabbix) (2 years' experience)
- Orchestration and Provisioning (Puppet / Chef / Foreman / Spacewalk) (2 years' experience)
- Databases (MySQL/ MySQL cluster/ Replication / Postgresql) (2 years' experience)
- Storage Technologies (SAN/ NAS / iSCSI / Fibre Channel) (1 year experience)
- Scripting (E.g. Perl, Bash, Python, etc.) (2 years' experience)
- Linux Desktop & Server (CentOS / RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian) (3 Years' experience)
- Solid understanding of VMware
Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Deploying and configuring new dedicated and virtualized servers, with a focus on automation and security best practices.
- Maintaining server availability to ensure uptime
- Design, management and troubleshooting of live and staging environments for cloud software.
- Liaising with 3rd Party software vendors in troubleshooting and ongoing maintenance of cloud software.
- The deployment and testing of application fixes and changes.
- Participation in continual service and security improvements to our infrastructure.
- Providing escalation support to support desk and providing after-hours standby support as required.