Systems Administrator

Job Summary

• Responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems (hardware and software) and related infrastructure to enable continuous innovation within the information systems landscape.

Responsibilities

• Install new / rebuild existing servers.
• Configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage.
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis.
• Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
• Contribute to and maintain system standards
• Installation of monitoring Agents and connection to monitoring System.
• Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions and potential breach.
• Ensure smooth running of all network monitoring systems for enterprise network and core network nodes.
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Create, change, and delete user accounts per request and as required.
• Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
• Provide support to the application development team.
• Installation of agents for Backup-System and configuring Backup.
• Repair and recover from hardware or software failures.
• Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks.

Requirements

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent Engineering or Information Technology or Computer Science with 2 years experience
• Professional Qualification (CCNA, ITIL, LPIC/CompTIA, etc.) an added advantage
• Ability to leverage technology to develop and enhance functional competencies
• Systems Administrative role in Linux environment
• Knowledge of networking and network monitoring/management
• Database Management – MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle an added advantage.
• Linux, Windows Server, Solaris administration experience necessary, in that order of preference.
• Experience with scripting, installation and migration concepts – in Bash, Perl, Python
• Virtual Infrastructure administration experience with KVM or VMware is highly desired. Storage Area Network administration experience is a plus.
• Experience supporting a high traffic customer-facing website infrastructure
• Experience administering and troubleshooting load balancing appliances in a production environment
• Sound understanding and extensive experience in network management
• Previous years of experience working in an ISP environment, a plus.

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