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Linux Systems Administrator

  • Remote
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
  • Infrastructure

Job description

Xneelo, a leading web hosting company in South Africa, seeks the services of a Linux Systems Administrator to join the team that specialises in the troubleshooting and repairing of broken or degraded large-scale, Linux-based hosting systems, identifying trends based on system alerts, while also being a technical point of escalation to the contact centre’s Support Consultants.  


The role can be based at the company's head office in Durbanville, South Africa or remotely in the SAST time zone. 


What you’ll do:

  • Maintain reliable, fast, secure and highly available hosting infrastructure

  • Maintain existing LAMP hosting infrastructure

  • Work with and contribute to configuration management systems

  • Form part of a highly skilled and autonomous team

  • Collaborate with diverse tech teams

  • Be an after-hours point of escalation for support on a rotational basis

  • Actively participate in continuous improvement within the team


Skills and Attributes :

  • Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving

  • Methodical and accurate

  • Customer-centric (although not customer-facing)

  • Good communicator

  • Linux system administration skills - preferably Debian

  • Shell scripting

  • Puppet an advantage

  • Zabbix an advantage

Job requirements

Qualifications and Experience:

  • Grade 12 or equivalent

  • A minimum of 2-3 years Linux Systems Administration experience, including LAMP stack

  • Advantageous:

    • Linux certifications

    • Agile methodology

    • Helpdesk or technical support experience

At xneelo, our sincere desire is that our team members are inspired by their success and able to operate with a high level of discretion and autonomy guided by our principles and values. We hope this appeals to you and look forward to hearing from you.

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