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.

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
• 3 - 5 years work experience.
• Professional Qualification (CCNA, ITIL, LPIC/CompTIA, etc.) an added advantage
• 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
28th June, 2023.