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Senior System Administrator with Linux background

Posted: 01.02.2017, South Africa, Milnerton (Province of the Western Cape)
Senior System Administrator with Linux background
Senior System Administrator with Linux background
  • Ad type: Vacancy
  • Contact person: Suretha
  • Company: BulkSMS.com
  • Country: South Africa
  • City: Milnerton (Province of the Western Cape)
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Description
Functional Area:
Information technology.
Job Category:
Information Technology -> System administrators.
Job Title:
Senior System Admininistrator
Salary:
from 40 000 R to 60 000 R
Job Type:
Full-time
Experience:
5 - 10 years
City:
Milnerton (Province of the Western Cape), South Africa
Requirements:
Qualifications:

Although a degree or diploma is not required for this position as we value knowledge and experience, a degree or diploma in networking and/or systems will establish basic knowledge. We do however require extensive hands on experience above all else, please see the next section for detail on this.
Sysadmin experience:
Proven scripting ability in tooling and automation beyond simple bash
Experience with configuration management (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
Minimum of 7 years of IP networking
Minimum of 7 years of Linux experience
We expect you to have a deep understanding of Linux, with exposure to various distributions
Minimum of 2 years of high availability experience
Experience with Docker containers a bonus
Minimum of 2 years of MySQL database administration will be a bonus
Amazon Web Services or similar experience will be a bonus
Additional skills and attributes:
Great communication, verbal and written
Team player
Likes solving problems and building solutions
Thirst for knowledge and learning
Takes personal responsibility
Job Description:
Job highlights:

Help build and manage the company system infrastructure
Assist with the management and development of the company systems

Work on moving systems and services to an automated and fully deployable container platform

Assist with the strategic systems planning

As part of the sysadmin team you will use your expertise to help research and decide on the solutions to implement

Performance monitoring

Identify parameters to monitor the performance of the various infrastructure components
Building monitoring systems or configuring current systems
Investigating performance fluctuations and implementing remedies
Additional information:
Company background:

The BulkSMS Infrastructure team is responsible for operating the global messaging platform, delivering messages to hundreds of mobile networks daily. We are looking for talented, passionate, and highly-creative individuals with the drive to make a wide-ranging impact on our organization's products, operations, and services who is interested in joining our team on a full-time basis.

As a member of our Infrastructure team, you will be responsible for contributing to the architecture, design, automation, deployment, monitoring, and senior-level support of our solutions and services.

Salary will be based on qualifications and experience, but the expectation is for the yearly cost to company between R480,000 and R720,000 per year(40K to 60K per month). We will still be interested if your skill level exceeds this price bracket and we are ready to be impressed.


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