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Ref: LP085-1456
Job description / Role
• Senior DevOps engineer and system administrator expert responsible for installation/configuration, operation, monitoring, upgrading/patching, maintenance, and documentation of information systems hardware, software, and related infrastructure.
• Develop new system and application implementation plans, custom scripts, and testing procedures to ensure operational and project reliability.
• Establish documented procedures and guidelines for the installation and management of the server computer operating systems, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, and other resources in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Install, configure, modify, and maintain applications, packages, and other software on server computer systems.
• Apply software patches and upgrades on a regular basis as needed. Develop and maintain installation, configuration, and other procedures.
• Provide server support related to application installation, configuration, and maintenance.
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Ensures that records of system anomalies and equipment inventory are properly maintained.
• Linux (Ubuntu distribution in particular), bash, Linux scripts, glusterfs, elasticsearch, nuxeo, jBPM, apt-get, ssh, web applications (Javascript front ends and Java backends), web services, Tomcat, PostgreSQL, Ansible, Jenkins, Jira, Bitbucket, git.
Requirements
• 8 years experience MINIMUM administering Linux based systems.
• 6 years experience monitoring and maintaining farms of Linux servers and clusters.
• 6 years experience successfully deploying and maintaining open source infrastructure technologies across a wide variety of purposes.
• 6 years experience taking backups and conducting restores of servers.
• 6 years experience working with Linux command line and Linux scripts.
• 4 years maintaining an environment relying upon automated builds and continuous integration, deployment, and delivery.
• 4 years experience building file server clusters using glusterfs, ceph, or others.
• 4 years experience supporting servers hosting tomcat, PostgreSQL.
• 4 years experience with hosting and monitoring REST web services.
• 2 years experience developing complicated scripts using bash, python, perl, or others.
• 4 years working in an organization deeply adhering to the Scrum methodology.
• 4 years producing documentation and artifacts related to the administration of systems, e.g. design documents, UML diagrams, proof-of-concepts.
About the Company
Saudi Networkers Services, incorporated in 2001 with an aim to provide the world class business and consulting services through a combination of market insight, technical excellence and unrivalled agile methodology.
Our success stems from building strong relationships and trusted partners, which enabled us delivering exceptional services to public sector, as well as some world's leading organizations, in Telecommunication, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Banking, Energy, Utilities and various other industry arenas.
We collaborate closely, ideate that how the work gets done, while working alongside businesses to collaborate on growth and applying breakthrough innovations, that drive exponential impact, managed by teams specialized in their assigned industry sectors.