Systems Administrator at ipNX Nigeria Limited

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 to over a decade of experience, our commitment, drive and passion realized through highly skilled and well seasoned professionals.

As a pioneer and a leading Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) operatorin Nigeria, we currently provide a number of solutions to various industries and market segments using industry-leading technology (such as our very own Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) cable technology) as our core access network infrastructure and fixed wireless radio services (via licensed frequency). We also proffer complementary IT solutions, with a view of covering key commercial and suburban regions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Systems Administrator 

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Reporting to: Head, System Operations
Sector: ISP / Telecom

Purpose of the Job (Brief)

• Responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems (hardware and software) and related infrastructure to enable continuous innovation within the information systems landscape.

Educational Qualifications & Functional Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering / Information Technology / Computer Science.
• Professional Qualification (CCNA, ITIL, LPIC/CompTIA, etc.) an added advantage.
• 3 - 5 years work experience.
• Ability to leverage technology to develop and enhance functional competencies.
• Systems Administrative role in Linux environment.
• Knowledge of networking and network monitoring/management.
• Database Management - MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle an added advantage.
• 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 a plus.
• Experience administering a centralized data backup and recovery infrastructure, including installation and configuration of open source data backup solutions like Bacula, BareOS, etc.
• Experience deploying and administering web servers Apache/Nginx/Tomcat.
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies like Ovirt, OpenStack a plus.
• Experience with Dev/Ops tooling to build, configure and deploy, a plus.
• Experience with configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible, Salt Stack or Puppet) a plus.
• Working knowledge of WHM/cPanel (website admin panel) and Relational Database Management Systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
• Experience supporting a high traffic customer- facing website infrastructure
• Experience administering and troubleshooting load balancing appliances in a production environment
• Sound understanding and extensive experience in network management
• Previous years of experience working in an ISP environment, a plus.

Application Closing Date
29th May, 2023.