ENVIRONMENT:
An online gaming company in Cape Town is looking for a Systems Administrator (Linux) to join their team. The successful incumbent will be working with the technical teams to maintain and expand their ever-growing mission critical infrastructure. You will be responsible for helping estimate, provision, automate, and monitor the infrastructure for their applications.
DUTIES:
- Provisioning of new client infrastructure and maintenance of existing client infrastructure.
- Infrastructure software maintenance (includes patching and upgrades).
- Ensuring all backups and replication configuration are running optimally.
- System troubleshooting and problem solving across platform and application domains – will be expected to participate in on-call escalations to troubleshoot customer facing issues.
- Assistance to the DevOps Engineer for provisioning of new services as required 2.
- Providing monthly reports on system performance and uptime.
- Ensuring strict security standards are maintained across all infrastructure.
- Capacity planning and forecasting for client infrastructure.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 4+ years of experience in Systems Administration.
- Proficiency in building Linux systems (CentOS based).
- Extensive experience working with server virtualization and containerisation (Docker, VMWare, Xen, etc.).
- Knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals, including application layer protocols (e.g. DNS, FTP, SMTP, etc.) and firewalls.
- Experience administering application servers, web servers, and databases (Apache, PHP, NGINX, MySQL etc.).
- Experience configuring, deploying, and supporting at least one networking monitoring tool (Ne