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Senior Linux Engineer

Boardroom Appointments

RemoteSouth AfricaPosted 23 Aug 2026
Employee

Remote, South Africa

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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