Linux Systems Administrator

7 days ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Coolideas Full time
About Your Skills

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced IT professional to join our team as a system builder and IT administrator. The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of Linux servers and software stacks, including web hosts, server-side languages, frameworks, databases, and load balancing.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Deploying and maintaining Linux servers and software stacks
    • Web hosts: Apache, Nginx etc
    • Server side languages and frameworks: PHP (Laravel, Symfony etc), Python (Django, Web2Py etc), Javascript, NodeJS among others
    • Databases: MySQL (MariaDB, PerconaDB), Postgres, SQLite, MongoDB
    • Extensive Linux server OS experience: Debian, CentOS, Redhat, Ubuntu etc
  • Building Highly Available Environments: MySQL/MariaDB/Percona Galera-based clusters and replication. SQL Proxy and Load balancing: Maxscale, HAProxy, ProxySQL. Apache/Nginx: load balancing, reverse proxies etc
  • Monitoring and Alerting: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, InfluxDB, CheckMK, LibreNMS, SNMP
  • Mail servers and MTA's: Postfix, Proxmox Mail Gateway, Microsoft 365 Exchange
  • HyperVisors and Containerisation: Proxmox, QEMU, KVM etc. LXC, Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher, Portainer, Ansible

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