Job description

Our client a successful cloud service provider is currently in search of a Linux system engineer to add to their innovative and creative team members who are encouraged to express their ideas and use their skills to bring these ideas to execution. An experienced Linux engineer who loves solving cool and challenging technical problems and enjoys the security and quality of your work, with a strong ability to troubleshoot and elegantly fix complex problems in a cool and calm manner, then this is the opportunity for you, send your CV, today!

Requirements

• Matric
• Tertiary IT qualification or equivalent (preferred)
• Four to five years of experience in managing complex Linux based IT environments

Technical requirements

• Maintenance and design of security policies, networks, firewalls, applications, and server deployments in both dedicated and virtualised environments
• Engineering skills when researching and implementing new technologies
• Deploying and configuring new dedicated and virtualised servers, with a focus on automation and security best practices
• Design, management and troubleshooting of live and staging environments for cloud software
• Escalation support to support desk and be involved in mentoring junior staff and sharing your extensive knowledge
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Install, configure and maintain CentOS 5/6/7 and RHEL 5/6/7
• Solid understanding of Linux server administration and VMware
• Understanding of other virtualization technologies and Storage Area Network (SAN) technologies
• Working understanding of Apache, Nginx, Squid, DNS and MySQL.
• Must be able to troubleshoot performance issues using tools like iostat, sar and vmstat
• Solid understanding on TCP/IP networking in Linux environments
• Knowledge of IPTables
• Solid Scripting Experience (Perl, BASH)
• Understanding of source code control (Git, SVN)
• Working understanding of Open source NMS (Nagios) and Puppet

This is a permanent opportunity based in Johannesburg northern suburbs, offering a salary from R450,000 to R600,000 per annum, cost to company. Reference: JE38702 – 2017

e-Merge IT recruitment are specialist niche recruiters with a wide range of positions available. We offer researched positions with top companies to strong technical skilled candidates. Email Jaydene on

az.oc.egrem-e@eenedyaj

. Alternatively, call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

Please feel free to check out our website on www.e-merge.co.za for similar positions that might be of interest to you!! Do you have a friend who is a technology specialist? We pay big cash to you if we place a friend that you sent us!

If you haven’t heard from e-Merge IT within two weeks of your application, please consider it unsuccessful for this position.

Posted on 19 May 14:41