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System Administrator

ipNX Nigeria Limited - Lagos


Posted: Aug 6th, 2019

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ipNX is one of Nigeria’s fastest growing Information and Communications Technology companies, serving a multitude of needs across enterprises, small businesses and residents with innovative, world-class services. Our ability to identify, satisfy and exceed today’s market needs is a testament.


Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Administer server’s infrastructure in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
  • Identify and promote best systems administration practices and patterns.
  • Responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure.

Minimum: HND
Experience: year(s)
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Permanent
Salary:
Expires: 31-10-2019

General Requirements

  • Minimum 2.1/Upper Credit Bachelor's degree or equivalent Engineering or Information Technology or Computer Science.
  • Systems Administrative role in Linux environment.
  • Previous years of experience working in ISP environment.
  • Experience supporting a high traffic customer facing website infrastructure.
  • Experience administering and troubleshooting load balancing appliances in a production environment.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 .