Senior Systems Administrator
Summary
Maintains and optimizes Linux/Windows servers, storage, and HPC infrastructure using Ansible, Docker, Prometheus, and Ceph.
Key Requirements
Qualification:
- Tech IT with 13+ years; OR
- Eng/B.Sc Hons IT 9+ years;
Experience:
- 9 years of relevant experience includes:
- System Administrator oriented role, preferably in a high-performance computing environment
Knowledge:
- Linux system installation, configuration and administration
- Operating systems (Windows, Linux, Ubuntu)
- Security (intrusion detection, data backup/recovery)
- Scripting (Python, C, C++ Programming Language)
- Databases (SQL)
- Hardware (server hardware, storage systems and other related components)
- Infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Distributed monitoring and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic)
- Distributed logging (e.g., ELK stack)
- Deployment (e.g., MaaS, FAI)
- Virtualisation and containerisation (e.g., Openstack, proxmox, Docker) Continuous integration (e.g., Jenkins, Buildbot, Github Actions)
- Distributed Storage (e.g., Ceph, Lustre, MinIO)
- Knowledge of high-performance computing infrastructure
- Knowledge of Ethernet networks
Please call us on 010 030 0127 for more information.
NB: Should you not hear from us in 6weeks please consider your application unsuccessful.