Senior Linux System Engineer

• Developing processes and procedures for ongoing management of the system environments.
• Updating the technical documentation and the team knowledge base.
• Researching and recommending innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administrations tasks.
• Mentoring and developing junior team members of system engineers as required.
• Assessing new technologies and products, applying industry best practices and methodologies to engineering and operations activities.
• Providing on-call consulting advice and technical support to external/internal customers regarding specific operational/applications issues.
• Participating in the overall secure design and performance of system/server’s environment.
• Conducting periodic safety tests of system performance, reliability, and load, assists the service desk and operations in resolving system performance issues.
• Taking lead in resolving operational issues, performing root cause analysis, and implementing necessary corrective actions to prevent re-occurrence.

• Bachelor degree from a reputable university (Communications engineering or computer science background is preferred).
• Minimum “3 to 5” years of experience in NIX Platform (RedHat – CentOS – Ubuntu) is a must.
• Managing, maintaining and tuning webservers (NGINX, PHP-FPM and Apache).
• Managing DNS Systems (BIND and Power DNS).
• MySQL Administration.

Preferably to have experience in:

• Varnish Administration, Memcache and Redis caching.
• MySQL Replication, Clustering. and performance tuning.
• cPanel Hosting Platform.
• Managing, maintaining, and tuning open-source web platforms (Drupal, WordPress, Moodle and Magento).
• Cloud Platform Awareness: Microsoft Azure is strongly preferred.