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 (3-5 years)
- Proven history of incident response, diagnostic activities, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Corrective Action Plans, and advanced troubleshooting (3-5 years)
- Experience with RDS databases like MySQL, LDAP, Bind DNS service and Apache Web service (3-5 years)
Desirable:
- Experience working with virtualization technologies (1-2 years)
- Experience in documenting environment and processes (1-2 years)
Knowledge & 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
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