Server Administrator Unix
Server Admin Unix Pr
Location: Colombia, Ciudad de México
Work Location: onsite
Requirements
Required – Technical Skills
- Over 4 years of experience administering Unix/Linux servers
- Advanced experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Oracle Linux, AIX, SUSE Linux
- Experience installing, configuring, upgrading, and maintaining Unix/Linux operating systems
- Experience managing physical, virtualized, and cloud infrastructure, VMware, AWS, Azure
- Ability to ensure server availability, security, and performance
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring, performance analysis, and troubleshooting
- Knowledge of capacity planning and preventive maintenance
- Experience with OS hardening, vulnerability management, patching, and security controls
- Knowledge of enterprise storage technologies, LVM, NFS, SAN, multipathing
- Experience with high availability, clustering, and disaster recovery (DRP)
- Experience with Bash scripting and automation tools, Ansible, Python
- Strong networking knowledge, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, firewalls, load balancers
- Experience managing incidents, changes, and problems under ITIL practices
- Experience performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Ability to document technical procedures and operational standards
Nice to Have (Technical Skills)
- RHCSA or RHCE certification
- LPIC-2 or LPIC-3 certification
- ITIL Foundation certification
- AWS SysOps Administrator certification
- Azure Administrator certification
Responsibilities (Activities to perform)
- Administer and maintain AIX, Unix, and Linux servers
- Monitor infrastructure health, performance, and availability
- Apply operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes
- Install and configure server hardware and software
- Troubleshoot operating system, infrastructure, and performance issues
- Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive actions
- Manage incidents, changes, problems, and vulnerabilities
- Implement security hardening and compliance controls
- Support backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery processes
- Automate operational tasks using Bash, Python, and Ansible
- Maintain technical documentation and operational procedures
- Support capacity planning and preventive maintenance initiatives
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and application teams
- Follow up on vendor support cases and escalations
- Ensure compliance with ITIL processes and operational standards
Required Languages
- English: Advanced
Additional Information
Location
- Mexico (Hybrid)
- Bogotá and surroundings (Hybrid)
- Rest of Colombia (Remote)
Special Conditions
- Availability for OnCall