Intermediate Linux Systems Engineer – Pretoria/ Hybrid – R700k PA

LEADING and Sophisticated payroll company that is a one stop payments service provider is currently in search for an Intermediate System Engineer with experience in Linux, Docker and Kubernetes to join their winning team.

Successful candidate will be collaborating with network staff to ensure smooth and reliable operation of software and systems for fulfilling business objectives and processes.

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Requirements:

• Min 5 8 years Experience as a System Engineer
• Red Hat RHCE certification is highly desirable
• Linux/ Unix Kernel experience
• Solaris a massive PLUS
• Knowledge of web components such as Apache, Tomcat is essential.
• High Availability / Clustering technologies is highly desirable
• Storage technologies (like SAN, multipathing, iSCSI, LVM)
• Networking concepts and protocols
• LDAP, Kerberos, Samba, Active Directory
• Container technologies such as Docker/Kubernetes is highly desirable
• Working knowledge of Load Balancing devices is highly desirable
• Cloud certification (Azure / AWS) will be an advantage
• VMware vRealize Operations certification will be an advantage but not essential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with network staff to ensure smooth and reliable operation of software and systems for fulfilling business objectives and processes
• Work with executive team members, decision makers, and stakeholders to define business requirements and systems goals, and to identify and resolve business systems issues
• Conduct research on software and systems products to justify recommendations and to support purchasing efforts
• Document procedures
• Communicate with stakeholders to identify what they want a system to accomplish
• Develop system designs, and then use modelling techniques to evaluate how they might perform in the real world
• Deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems
• Install, configure and test hardware, operating systems, application software and system management tools
• Create, test and maintain backup and recovery policy and procedures

Reference Number for this position is GZ58291 which is a permanent Hybrid position based in Pretoria offering a cost to company salary of R700k per annum