Linux Systems Engineer

Essential Skills:

• Grade 12
• IT qualification; Systems Administration/System Engineer certification in Linux and VMware/KVM; RHCSA/RHCE certification
• Experience in:
  • SAN/NAS
  • Storage pools and assigning storage to hosts
  • Nagios/Zabbix 

Key Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring DRBD block replication.
• Installation, implementation, and configuration as well as ongoing support of the Linux Infrastructure.
• Create virtual machines on VMWare as well as bare-metal with the applicable distribution.
• Linux Patch Level management.
• Experience in Firewall, and security enhanced Linux (Selinux).
• Creating and managing KVMs.
• Creating and managing VMware VMs.
• Install and configure virtual machines through cockpit virtual machine manager.
• Evaluate and maintain information security throughout the Linux infrastructure.
• Converting VMware VMDK disks to KVM’s qcow2 disk formats.
• Install, configure, maintain, and monitor the Zabbix monitoring tool.
• Ensure the highest level of infrastructure availability.
• Maintain backup and redundancy strategies.
• Provide 3rd level support.
• Work with developers to transition applications from one platform to the other, and that includes from physical to virtual environment.
• Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems to include inventory and patch level of all system, and that it is kept up to date.
• Install, support and maintain OpenVPN server and clients.
• Install and configure Microsoft SQL Server.
• Install and configure MSSQL replication.
• Installing and configuration of AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AAG).
• Install and maintain MSSQL Server patch level.
• Co-ordinate with the change management teams to prepare the MSSQL servers for patching.
• Additionally, involved in patch planning, co-ordination and execution of recent patching cycle.
• Install and configure Monitoring tools such as Zabbix, SolarWinds monitoring