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This role ensures system availability, reliability, and operational efficiency while supporting business applications, users, and IT initiatives.\nThis is a hybrid working role that requires 3 days onsite, in office, per week.\nResponsibilities\nAdminister Linux servers and operating systems across development, test, and production environments.\nMonitor system health, performance, and availability.\nPerform operating system installations, upgrades, and patching.\nImplement and maintain security controls and compliance requirements.\nTroubleshoot and resolve hardware, software, and infrastructure issues.\nManage user accounts, permissions, and authentication services.\nMaintain backup and recovery processes.\nDevelop and maintain infrastructure automation solutions.\nCreate and update technical documentation, procedures, and system diagrams.\nParticipate in incident response, root cause analysis, and problem resolution.\nSupport change management and system maintenance activities.\nCollaborate with application, network, security, and cloud teams.\nQualifications\nBachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field; 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