Systems Engineer

Hire Resolve; Centurion; On-site; ZAR 334,800 - 502,200; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic engineering firm in South Africa is seeking a Systems Engineer to build and maintain critical infrastructure. The successful candidate will manage systems, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance. Ideal candidates will have a BS/MS in Computer Science, substantial UNIX/Linux experience, and solid scripting skills. This role emphasizes automation and cloud infrastructure, specifically in AWS, while enhancing efficiency through custom scripts.

Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
• Experience installing, configuring, and troubleshooting UNIX/Linux environments.
• Strong scripting skills in languages like Python or Ruby.

Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor installed systems and infrastructure.
• Ensure high levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
• Write scripts to enhance system efficiency.

Skills

UNIX/Linux administration

Scripting skills

Cloud experience (AWS)

Virtualization

Networking knowledge

Performance tuning

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Puppet

VMware

Tomcat

Apache

Job description

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to help build out, maintain, and troubleshoot our rapidly expanding infrastructure. You will be part of a talented team of engineers that demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering mission critical infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance and security. Qualified systems engineers will have a background in IT, computer systems engineering, or systems engineering and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure
• Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions and work with developers to implement those fixes
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems
• Provide 2nd and 3rd level support
• Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution

Requirements

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Proven working experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting UNIX /Linux based environments.
• Solid experience in the administration and performance tuning of application stacks (e.g.,Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, Ruby, NGINX)
• Solid Cloud experience, preferably in AWS
• Experience with virtualization and containerization (e.g., VMware, Virtual Box)
• Experience with monitoring systems
• Experience with automation software (e.g., Puppet, cfengine, Chef)
• Solid scripting skills (e.g., shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python)
• Solid networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP)