Linux Systems Engineer: Managed Platform Abuse Mitigation

At xneelo, it starts with purpose. We’re business enablers offering a hosting service for our customers to create and transact online. We spend each day working hard to retain the trust of our customers. Inspired by our brand promise ‘trusted in hosting’, we deliver a web hosting service that is reliable and consistent, focusing on infrastructure stability, good value and consistent service delivery.

Would you be eager to continually improve customer value and internal efficiency through quality, innovative systems, and software solutions? Our team could use your skills, passion, and experience to develop website security and anti-spam solutions that will help the fight against spam and website attacks.

We are passionate about frequent, iterative delivery of high-quality software and aim to build lasting solutions using agile principles and the latest technology. We work together in autonomous teams that take full responsibility for their part of the xneelo ecosystem. The team is based at the company’s head office in the Tygervalley area of the Western Cape.

As a Linux Systems Engineer, you will develop, integrate, and maintain in-house and third-party solutions that promote a safe and spam-free hosting experience for our customers.

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have a passion for:

• High quality and standards

• Technology to serve operational and customer requirements

• Programming and open-source technologies

• Security, specifically web application

• Anti-spam solutions

• Web application firewalls

• Optimal systems and simple procedures

• Agile and a self-organising team environment

• Sharing ideas and innovation

• Learning rapidly and independently

Responsibilities:

• In collaboration with the Product Owner and stakeholders, understand the needs of the customer to deliver innovative, robust website security and anti-spam solutions

• Build and design tooling to support and evolve our Trust & Safety team, e.g. dashboards, scripts, and automation of customer service processes

• Trend monitoring, analysis, and development of mitigation strategies for Spam and Website vulnerabilities

• Develop and maintain: 

  • anti-spam and anti-malware technologies and strategies

  • website malware detection systems and signatures

  • monitoring strategy for website security issues and its supporting infrastructure

High level of Proficiency in the following:

• Scripting languages

• Open-source databases like MySQL, SQLite

• Linux system administration

• Software design and coding 

• Finding and dealing with malware attacks and abuse-related incidents

• Trend monitoring and threat modeling

Qualifications and Experience

• 5+ years of Linux system administration experience, including a successful track record in a mission-critical environment

• Linux system engineering and administration focusing on Linux performance, scalability, and security

• Displays an understanding of the importance, virtualisation, and administration of high-availability systems

Advantageous:

• Deployment and Maintenance of Web Application Security and Malware Mitigation systems. 

• Debian Linux administration experience

• A degree or diploma in computer science and cyber security

• Experience with virtualization and cloud infrastructure

• Software development experience

• Experienced working within large-scale operations

• Following security trends and keeping up to date with emerging threats

• Management/maintenance of common web CMS systems like WordPress

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.