Linux System Admin

Spirula Systems

Job purpose:

We are currently searching for a SysOps to join Spirula's technical team, which experience the most intense aspects of solving problems in unique ways. He/she contributes the hard work, dedication, and persistence to Spirula's core team, as he/she deal with customers issues by applying his/her own creative techniques to identify the source of the problems; as well as keeping the customer aware of every step along the way. This of course requires a continuous learning process on the job, as well as learning in the usual methods as online courses and books. All this is done in a friendly and inclusive environment that promotes innovation and creative thinking.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Provisioning, administrating, securing, and optimizing both live and development environments for the clients of Spirula systems.
• Respond to urgent situations in the live environments, which may include some off-working hours.
• Direct interaction with the clients is a part of the job, however it's all about technical stuff and you are not required to do any business tasks. Normally interaction is done by emails or the ticketing system.
• Relocation to Spirula's client's offices may happen on rare cases, compensation is to happen for outside Alexandria clients.

Qualifications:

• 1 to 3 years of experience in relevant field.
• A college degree in a relevant field is appreciated.
• Excellent written english language.

Soft Skills:

• Self-managed and self-motivated.
• Highly accountable and takes ownership. Outstanding work ethic, high integrity, team player, and a lifelong learner.
• Possess analytical skills, mental resiliency and the ability to think systematically under stressful conditions.

Specialized knowledge:

No one knows it all, but these are the kinds of things we re looking for:

• Proficiency with general Linux administration using CLI.
• Good working experience with Bash scripting, iptables, LAMP/LEMP stacks, Linux package management systems, and cloud computing vendors (e.g AWS, GCE, DO, ...)
• Basic working experience with monitoring and performance analysis tools (e.g nagios/opsview, newrelic, ... etc).
• Solid understanding of the Linux OS and its underlying components.
• Good understanding of networking, HTTP, DNS, RDBMS.
• Basic understanding of file systems, load balancing, and information security basics.
• Practical skills of technical documentation and research, analytical problem solving quick learning, analyze and resolve complex infrastructure resource, application deployment issues, working with a minimum amount of supervisions, and being in direct contact with the customers.

These points will give you a boost:

• Python scripting, or any other scripting language.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps tools like ansible and docker.
• Basic programming skills.
• Contributions to open source projects.

Benefits :

• Competitive salary.
• Social insurance.
• Private medical insurance for the employee and his/her spouse and kids.
• Work laptop, or laptop allowance if you'll use your personal one.
• Working on non-working hours makes you eligible to be compensated for your working time, this compensation is by working less in another day with the time amount that you reported.
• Friendly and inclusive environment.