Senior Linux/ Unix System Administrator

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Company overview
Pattern Matched Technologies (Pty) Ltd as an award winning WASP (Wireless Application Service Provider), telecommunications and Fintech development house, based in Midrand just off New Road, is seeking to appoint a mid- senior IT Linux Engineer responsible for the day-to-day management of the IT operations and infrastructure.

The salary range for this position is R480k - R840k annual package.

Job description
Linux/ Unix system administrator that will manage multiple Solaris/ Unix servers both physical and inside of AWS.
Monitor system health and reliability to support uptime goal of 99.9%

Primary Duties:
- Maintain current and new network and system configuration.
- Continually improve the system standards and documentation already in place.
- Keep evolving the human intervention required by automating through scripting or systems like Salt/ Chef.
- Ensure support is given through to various system levels.
- Maintaining and improving a high level of security.
- Ensure that sufficient software fixes are applied.
- Continues monitoring through existing capacity tools, as well as optimisation of current resource sets.

Requirements:
- Strong Linux/ Solaris skills are desired.
- Strong understanding of shell scripting.
- Unix/ Linux system administration (Ubuntu/Solaris, MySQL, PostreSQL, Bash, Python),
- Ability to work both independently as well as on teams

Beneficial:
- A tertiary Engineering or Computer Science degree is preferred.
- Expertise in High-Availability, Enterprise Systems (Dependability, Performance, Security, Endurability)
- Expertise in Linux/GNU Operations, Administration, Security/Integrity, Troubleshooting, Optimisation
- Knowledge and experience of technologies such as Docker, Chef, VMware, Salt.
- Knowledge and experience of data centre technologies such as Firewalls, Routers, Load Balancers, etc

If you are strong in Linux and very competent in Bash/ perl scripting please send your cv to:itjobs16@patternmatched.com
 
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