Senior Linux Engineer

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📍 South Africa

📅 Posted 2026-08-23 · via Himalayas

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Responsibilities:

- Install new systems (bare metal and virtual machines), rebuild existing systems and configure hardware with a focus on infrastructure as code and automation Develop and maintain configuration management tools

- Contribute to and maintain system standards

- Work closely with Software Engineers to develop CI/CD pipelines

- Research and recommend innovative and automated approaches for system administration tasks

- Manage security on the systems platform

- Perform and ensure daily automated backup operations are carried out

- Apply operating system patches and upgrades on a regular basis

- Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning

- Make recommendations for future upgrades

Requirements:

- BS Computer Science degree or equivalent industry experience

- Linux Guru skillset

- Configuration management experience (Cfengine, Puppet, Ansible, etc)

- Big data and supporting systems experience ( Hadoop, S3, Cassandra, Kafka, RabbitMQ)

- Container and Container Orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes)

- Experience running hybrid environment of on-premises and cloud services

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