Job Summary
Hire Resolve's client is looking for a talented Senior Linux Engineer to join our client’s dynamic team in Midrand, GP. You will be involved with technical decision making and team mentoring. An excellent communicator with a deep technical understanding & solid technical background. Ability to solve complex issues, drive automation, drive pro-active initiatives and to optimize where possible in the managed services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Proactively provide technical guidance and mentoring to staff.
- Provide technical leadership.
- Contribute to projects & architectural planning.
- Contribute to continuous improvement and the adoption of best practices.
- Drive Initiatives / Projects to completion with relevant team members
- Drive OS Security Hardening with relevant team members.
- Resolve Service Affecting Incidents & RCA’s to completion.
- Monitoring, managing and improving the efficiency of support services.
Requirements:
- Grade 12 with Maths & Science (Required)
- Tertiary Education in the ICT industry (Required)
- Tertiary qualification in IT technical field (Essential)
- ITIL Foundation certified (Advantageous)
- RHCSA / RHCE or similar qualification in Unix/Linux environment (Required)
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems or a related study (Advantageous)
- Candidate should have a minimum of 15+ years of experience in ICT, with at least 10 years in Unix/Linux System administration (Required).
- Experience in administering enterprise-scale Unix/Linux environments (Required).
- Experience on multi-vendor net management port configurations, i.e. HP ILO, SUN ILOM, Dell iDrac (Advantageous).
- Candidate should have in depth experience in hardware, system software, storage and networking (Required).
- Advanced shell scripting (Required).
- Ansible Automation (Required).
- Red Hat Satellite (Required).
- Red Hat OpenShift enterprise (Advantageous).
- Cluster environments, i.e. Veritas and Pacemaker (Advantageous).
- Vulnerability and Patch Management (Essential)
- AWS Cloud experience (Advantageous)
- Backup and recovery (Required)
- Working knowledge of BMC Remedy (Advantageous)
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We will contact you telephonically in 3 days should you be suitable for this vacancy. If you are not suitable, we will put your CV on file and contact you regarding any future vacancies that arise.