Systems Administrator Job in an e-Payment Company in Lagos

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Co-creation Hub Nigeria - Our client, a firm in the e-payment and IT sector, is seeking the services of a suitably qualified candidate to fill the position below:   Job Title: Systems Administrator (ARCA) Location: Lagos Position Summary

• The System Administrator will mainly be responsible for the day to day development and maintenance of the company’s Server/Network Infrastructure including making sure all services are running at full efficiency.
• Candidate will be thoroughly vetted as the role requires access to highly critical/sensitive parts of the business.

Qualifications

• B.Sc in Information Technology, Computer Science, Mathematics or any related course
• Experience with planning for Disaster Recovery
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Scripting - Bash -, One of JavaScript or Python or Perl
• Cloud/Virtualisation experience
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts.
• Personal time management and leadership skills
• Minimum of three (3) years post graduate Windows/Linux system administration, engineering and relational databases experience
• Networking - experience managing and configuring network equipment including Cisco firewalls and routers
• Designing high availability systems

Additional Experience:

• Professional certifications are desired
• 24/7 Infrastructure support (shift based) experience
• Cloud/Virtualisation experience.
• Knowledge of computer operating systems and hardware
• Working knowledge of complex web hosting configuration components, including firewalls, load balancers, web and database servers
• Ability to deploy, support, and diagnose real issues for a production environment, Time management and organizational skills
• Ability and desire to learn new skills quickly.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, Rackspace or private cloud based on Openstack or
• Experience with infrastructure as code development tools such as Terraform, Cloud formation, Puppet, Chef, Packer, Ansible, Salt
• DevOps experience
• Excellent written and oral communication and analytical/ problem-solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, and be able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously,
• Highly self-directed, a strong individual contributor and a strong team player

Compensation Compensation and benefits for the role is highly attractive and competitive. How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should send a Resume and cover letter to: [email protected] stating “System Administrator” in the subject field. Note: We make it a point to review all application received and contact those we want to speak to further within 10 calendar days. With that in mind, if we are interested in a further discussion, you will hear from us again within 10 calendar days from the date of your application submission   Application Deadline  3rd November, 2017.

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