Linux System Administrator at Ouranos Technologies

Ouranos Technologies (Ouranos) has established itself as a force to be reckoned with in delivering IT infrastructure services and solutions to clients in West Africa and beyond. At Ouranos, we design, build and provide solutions for business applications and core infrastructure including systems and storage, data centers and enterprise, wide communication and networking.

Our in-depth industry knowledge, technical expertise and flexible delivery models help customers harness the best out of their IT investments by creating a reliable and scalable infrastructure. Our systems integration services have a comprehensive portfolio of implementation, support and consulting services solutions with exceptional people supporting business technology in action – talented professionals who bring technical insight, process excellence and resource flexibility to help customers in various verticals.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Linux System Administrator

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Reporting To: Service Delivery Manager

Job Summary

• Unix Linux System Administrator specializes in overseeing and handling systems operating on Linux servers.
• Also responsible for evaluation, recommendation, design, implementation, and ongoing support of the computer infrastructure services and to ensure high availability, redundancy, recoverability, and capacity.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Installing and upgrading UNIX/Linux system software on company servers and computers
• Creating UNIX/Linux file systems
• Setting up and maintaining user accounts and access management systems
• Implementing network and computer system policies
• Detecting and troubleshooting software and hardware issues
• Ensure effective security, operation and peak performance of UNIX/Linux server and virtualization management environments.
• Provide high-availability operational support and automate solutions across the infrastructure.
• Participate in the design, planning, and implementation of new projects /technologies and ensuring that the solutions are highly available and performing.
• Work with the OS Administration and Engineering Section to develop document standards and procedures.
• Provide day-to-day Tier 3 level operational support including responding to incidents, troubleshooting, and executing corrective action.
• Assisting Tier 2 support with after action reports such as Root Cause Analysis.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or 6 years of equivalent work experience in IT related work.
• 3+ Years of Senior UNIX Engineer / Administrator experience supporting a medium to large user base
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x.7.x and 8.x.
• Red Hat Network Satellite Server 5.x and 6.x.
• Oracle Linux 6.x,7.x,8.x
• Working knowledge of networking protocols and components including TCP/IP,DNS, NFS.
• Experience with virtualization and containerization (e.g., VMware Vcenter, Hyper-V manager)
• Solid networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP)
• Experience with automated system builds and configuration management tools including Red Hat Satellite 6, Foreman, and Puppet, and Ansible.
• Technically fluent in the design and use of multiple Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Managers in a distributed environment.
• Outstanding communications and organization skills.
• Ability and desire to work both independently and with a team.
• Must have hands-on experience performing tuning of clusters.
• Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (bash, Perl, Python, Ruby)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Certification.

Application Closing Date
15th February, 2024.