Applications System Engineer at MainOne

Department: Technical
Job Type: Permanent

Responsibilities

• The Applications System Engineer primarily provides support to the IPNGN Virtual infrastructure.

Specifically, the Applications System Engineer’s responsibilities shall include:

• 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.
• Apply OS/Hypervisor/Firmware/applications patches and upgrades as demanded, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitioning and RAID configuration as required
• Perform monthly performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Troubleshoot and resolve all operating system and application related issues.
• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, automated approaches for system administration tasks.
• Create, change, and delete user accounts per request.
• Perform Server Hardening in accordance with the company information technology rules.
• System Hardware/Software compliance check and update.

Qualifications, Skills & Competencies

• B.Sc. in Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• Minimum of 4 years relevant experience
• Linux and windows servers troubleshooting skills required
• Working knowledge of the Linux Kernel
• Database Administration experience
• Experience supporting Vmware vSphere environment is desirable
• Networking experience will be an added advantage
• Shell Scripting experience will be an added advantage
• CCNA, REDHAT, WINDOWS, VMWARE certifications

Demands of the Job:

• Strong written and verbal skills
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to resolve issues in a timely fashion
• Availability to work overtime in times of emergency and specialized project deliveries