Linux System Administrator
Axis Pay
About Axis
We believe financial services should be more accessible, that’s why we started Axis. A fully interoperable mobile wallet which enables users to send and receive money from any mobile wallet in Egypt, pay their bills, buy anything online with a virtual Visa card, or scan any QR code to pay for anything in-person.Axis empowers small businesses with simplified digital payments to compete & grow. Our digital banking platform enables small businesses to seamlessly manage payments to employees and suppliers. Small businesses can now send salaries, reimbursements and instantly pay their suppliers on any mobile wallet in Egypt.
Overview of the Role
We're looking for a System Admin to monitor and ensure full functionality of our organization infrastructure systems in terms of software & hardware.
What you’ll be doing
- Monitoring and alerting system configuration and administration to ensure 24/7 system health reporting to assigned engineers.
- Configuration and administration of servers and physical hosts.
- Installation, Configuration and administration of required OSs.
- Configuration and administration of virtual environments.
- Periodically update and check health of all security systems, appliances and applications
- Monitoring and alerting system configuration and administration to ensure 24/7 system health reporting to assigned engineers
- Configuration, administration and maintenance of network time (NTP) to provide exact time for both Trust center appliances and TSP service.
- Logging system configuration, administration and analysis
- Maintaining the updates and patches of the running software & applications.
- Technical support renewal with vendors
- Implementation, configuration and administration of System Information and Event management appliance
- Event and security analysis
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or IT relevant is a plus
- Minimum 2+ years of experience in Information Technology Infrastructure and Systems Administration.
- Working Experience on Linux Systems; with its different distributions; an administration that includes but not limited to: installation, configuration, management .
- Working Experience on Virtualization using VMWare ESXi , HyperV , KVM .
- Preferred Experience on DevOps tools: Git, Ansible, docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform.
- Experienced with the orchestration of Docker containers running on Kubernetes.
- Good knowledge of cloud service providers (AWS, Google, Azure).
- Experience with performance tuning and diagnosing system bottlenecks through root cause analysis.
- Experience with software management - installations, patching of OS/apps, etc.
- Experience with Monitoring software and solutions such as [ Prometheus, Nagios, Zabbix ,Grafana, New relic …etc.].
- Basic understanding of storage systems such as SANs and NASs
- Solid knowledge about Backup and Disaster Recovery policies and best practices.
- Knowledge of configuring and managing switches/firewalls will be an added advantage.
- Excellent teamwork skills including collaboration, cooperation, coordination, Open-mindedness, brainstorming, and idea exchange.
- Excellent problem-solving, decision-making, and logical reasoning skills.
- Excellent adaptability and self-management skills.
- Excellent English skills, both written and spoken.
- Excellent attention to detail and critical observation skills.
- Good team player with the ability to work very effectively in a collaborative and team-oriented manner with other teams. Must have initiative and a positive work attitude and must be a quick learner. Must be confident, eager and willing to take on new challenges. Must be cooperative with good interpersonal, negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
- RHCSA , RHCE Certified is a Plus