Senior Linux Engineer
We are looking for a highly skilled senior Linux Engineer to join our fast-growing SaaS business. So, if you are:
An experienced Linux Engineer who loves solving cool and challenging technical problems and working in a fast-paced highly technical environment and cares a great deal about security and quality of your work, with a strong ability to troubleshoot and elegantly fix complex problems in a cool and calm manner, SYNAQ wants to hire you!
Core Skills:
- The ability to maintain, manage, design, and troubleshoot security policies, networks, firewalls, applications, and server deployments in both dedicated and virtualized environments.
- To be able to liaise with 3rd Party software vendors in troubleshooting and ongoing maintenance
- Working knowledge of networking fundamentals
- Solid understanding of Linux server administration
- Understanding of Storage Area Network (SAN) technologies
- Working understanding of Apache
- Working understanding of Nginx
- Working understanding of DNS
- Working understanding of MySQL
- Must be able to troubleshoot performance issues using tools like iostat, sar and vmstat
- Knowledge of Iptables
- Solid Scripting Experience (Perl, BASH)
- Understanding of source code control (Git, SVN)
- Working understanding of Open-source NMS (Nagios)
- Working understanding of Ansible
Experience:
- Proven engineering skills when researching and implementing new technologies
- You have a minimum of 5 years of experience in managing complex Linux based IT environments
General:
- Ability to share knowledge and contribute to a team
- Good communication (written and verbal)
- Ability to clearly articulate in a professional manner
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Excellent troubleshooting, root cause analysis and permanent problem resolution skills
- Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to pay attention to detail and be organized
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment (same team and cross-functional teams)
- Ability to work after hours and on weekends (when required)
- Willingness to do rotational standby shifts
- Own Transport and valid driver’s license required
Not essential (but beneficial for the application of this role):
- The ability to maintain, build and upgrade Zimbra.
- Understanding of AWS
- Solid understanding of VMware
- Experience in Linux MTA’s (Exim, Postfix)
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