Linux Solaris System Engineer - Pretoria East at e-Merge IT Recruitment

Responsibilities:

• 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

Qualifications and Experience:

• 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