Our Client based in the Cape Town area is looking for a Senior Linux Systems Engineer to join their Team. The purpose of the role would be 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.
Educational requirements:
- 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 required:
- 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 requirements:
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.
Desired Skills:
- Linux
- Unix
- Tcp/Ip
- redhat
- suse
- squid cache
- apache tomcat
- jboss
- Mysql
- apache web server
- linux engineer
- systems engineeer