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Research and System Architecture
Victoria Island, Lagos
Function: Systems Administrator Reporting to: Chief Technology Architect Location: Lagos Travel Frequency: Occasional
Purpose of the Job
Responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure.
Expected Key Results
Administer server's infrastructure in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
Identify and promote best systems administration practices and patterns.
Perform continuous system monitoring.
Provide Tier II/other support.
Participate in disaster recovery planning and testing.
Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.
Educational Qualifications & Functional Skills:
Minimum 2.1/Upper Credit Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Information Technology/Computer Science.
Systems Administrative role in Linux environment.
Previous years of experience working in ISP environment.
Work Experience:
Linux, Windows Server, Solaris administration experience necessary, in that order of preference.
Experience with scripting, installation and migration concepts – in Bash, Perl, Python.
Virtual Infrastructure administration experience with KVM or VMware highly desired. Storage Area Network administration experience a plus.
Experience administering centralized data backup and recovery infrastructure, including installation and configuration of open source data backup solutions like Bacula, amanda, BareOS, etc.
Experience deploying and administering web servers – Apache/Nginx/Tomcat.
Working knowledge of cloud technologies like OpenStack, a plus.
Experience with Dev/Ops tooling to build, configure and deploy, a plus.
Experience with configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible, Salt Stack, Puppet)
Working knowledge of open source CPanel (website admin panel) and Relational Database Management System like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
Experience supporting a high traffic customer facing website infrastructure.
Experience administering and troubleshooting load balancing appliances in a production environment.
Other Requirements:
Ability to document and implement processes to increase efficiency, productivity, reliability and scalability
Project management skills a definite asset
Strong understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives