About the position
Company seeks to appoint a Senior Systems Administrator to perform a role of ensuring high availability, performance, software product evaluation and testing on the computing environment including system configuration, troubleshooting, resource monitoring, administration of Storage Area Networks (SAN) software and development of specialised programs and security of systems while providing technical leadership and expertise in managing diverse operating systems, also collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and support complex IT solutions that meet business needs and objectives.
JOB DESCRIPTION
- Designing, setting up, and executing jobs to customise software
- Executing software upgrades to new versions and releases
- Integrating vendor products across platforms
- Utilising complex installation techniques and procedures
- Applying appropriate software maintenance fixes
- Acquiring and installing new software
- Generating, tuning, configuring, and upgrading system software
- Modifying existing software and/or creating software for specific business needs
- Design, implement, and manage backup and disaster recovery solutions for critical systems (Veeam, Ceph, Spectrum Protect, Flash Copy etc.)
- Design, implement & manage Virtual Tape Library
- Providing technical support in the installation and maintenance of products
- Providing technical support with multi-vendor integration at all levels, e. (communication gateways, data and file servers, overall management and linking networks)
- Provide Tier 3 support and troubleshooting for complex system
- Performing software product evaluation, including planning, installation, testing, and technical support for the applications
- Implementing and using capacity management tools
- Developing a database to maintain statistics for various hardware and software components
- Monitor system health, network performance, and system logs for proactive issue detection
- Implement and manage security policies, access control, and encryption protocols across all server
- Conduct security audits, vulnerability assessments, and ensure compliance with industry
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Qualification:
- Tech IT with 13+ years; OR
- Eng/B.Sc Hons IT 9+ years; OR
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, DockerContinuous integration (e.g., Jenkins, Buildbot, Github Actions)
- Distributed Storage (e.g., Ceph, Lustre, MinIO)
- Knowledge of high-performance computing infrastructure
- Knowledge of Ethernet networks
Desired Skills:
- • Databases (SQL etc.)
- • Deployment (e.g.
- MaaS
- FAI)
- • Knowledge of Ethernet networks
