Linux Solaris System Engineer – Pretoria East – R1m PA/ Hybrid
e-Merge IT Recruitment
- Pretoria, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Collaborate with network staff to ensure smooth and reliable operation of software and systems for fulfilling business objectives and processes
- Work with executive team members, decision makers, and stakeholders to define business requirements and systems goals, and to identify and resolve business systems issues
- Conduct research on software and systems products to justify recommendations and to support purchasing efforts
- Document procedures
- Communicate with stakeholders to identify what they want a system to accomplish
- Develop system designs, and then use modelling techniques to evaluate how they might perform in the real world
- Deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems
- Install, configure and test hardware, operating systems, application software and system management tools
- Create, test and maintain backup and recovery policy and procedures
- Test system to ensure that it accomplishes what it is supposed to
- Conduct training and upskilling on new reports and or self-service analytics
- Min 7 – 10 years’ Experience as a System Engineer
- Red Hat RHCE certification is highly desirable
- Linux/Unix Kernel experience
- Solaris a massive PLUS
- Knowledge of web components such as Apache, Tomcat is essential.
- High Availability / Clustering technologies is highly desirable
- Storage technologies (like SAN, multipathing, iSCSI, LVM)
- Networking concepts and protocols
- LDAP, Kerberos, Samba, Active Directory
- Container technologies such as Docker/Kubernetes is highly desirable
- Working knowledge of Load Balancing devices is highly desirable
- Cloud certification (Azure / AWS) will be an advantage
- VMware vRealize Operations certification will be an advantage but not essential
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