Applications System Engineer at Equinix Nigeria

Job ID: JR-151565

Responsibilities

• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the availability and efficiency of all server infrastructure resources and application systems, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs.
• Primarily provides support to the IPNGN virtual infrastructure.
• Apply OS/Hypervisor/Firmware/applications patches and upgrades as demanded, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.
• Perform ongoing system performance tuning, infrastructure hardware upgrades ( CPU, memory and storage infrastructure), and resource optimization as required.
• Perform monthly Infrastructure and application performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Troubleshoot and resolve operating system and application related issues.
• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, automated approaches for system administration tasks.
• Perform Server Hardening in line with server security best practices.
• Application servers review and deployment

Qualifications

• 3-5 years' relevant experience
• B.Sc.Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• CCNA, REDHAT, WINDOWS, VMWARE certifications

Skills & Competences:

• Linux and windows servers administration skills required
• Working knowledge of the Linux Kernel
• Database Administration experience
• Experience supporting Vmware vSphere environment
• Networking experience will be an added advantage
• Automation experience will be an added advantage (shell scripting, Ansible)
• Practical knowledge of DNS architecture, engineering, deployment and security
• Knowledge/ Experience working with Network monitoring tools and systems is an added advantage.