Systems Administrator at ipNX Nigeria Limited

ipNX is one of Nigeria’s fastest growing Information and Communications Technology companies. In our business, we connect everything – people, information, and services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Systems Administrator

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Function: System Administration
Reporting to: Head, System Operations
Travel Frequency: Occassional

Purpose of the Job

Responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems (hardware and software) and related infrastructure to enable continuous innovation within the information systems landscape.

Expected Key Results

Network Infrastructure Uptime/AvailabilityAdminister server infrastructure in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements
Identify and promote best systems administration practices and patterns
Perform continuous system/network monitoring
Provide Tier II/other support
Participate in disaster recovery planning and testing.
Identify approaches that leverage resources and provide economies of scale.

Educational Qualifications

Minimum of 2.2 Bachelor’s Degree / HND ( minimum of Upper Credit) in Engineering / Information Technology / Computer Science
Professional Qualification (CCNA, ITIL, LPIC/CompTIA, etc.) an added advantage.

Functional Skills:

Ability to leverage technology to develop and enhance functional competencies
Systems Administrative role in Linux environment
Knowledge of networking and network monitoring/management
Database Management – MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle an added advantage.

Work Experience:

3 – 5 years work experience.
Linux, Windows Server, Solaris administration experience necessary, in that order of preference
Experience with scripting, installation and migration concepts – in Bash, Perl, Python
Virtual Infrastructure administration experience with KVM or VMware highly desired. Storage Area Network administration experience a plus
Experience administering a centralized data backup and recovery infrastructure, including installation and configuration of open source data backup solutions like Bacula, BareOS, etc.
Experience deploying and administering web servers – Apache/Nginx/Tomcat
Working knowledge of cloud technologies like Ovirt, OpenStack a plus
Experience with Dev/Ops tooling to build, configure and deploy, a plus
Experience with configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible, Salt Stack or Puppet) a plus
Working knowledge of WHM/cPanel (website admin panel) and Relational Database Management Systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
Experience supporting a high traffic customerfacing website infrastructure
Experience administering and troubleshooting load balancing appliances in a production environment
Sound understanding and extensive experience in network management.
Previous years of experience working in an ISP environment, a plus.

Other Requirements:

Ability to document and implement processes to increase efficiency, productivity, reliability and scalability
Project management skills a definite asset
Strong understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives
Problem solver
Ability to work under pressure
Customer Focus
Tech savvy
Team Work
Action orientation
Drive results
Cultivate Innovation
Ability to optimize work processes
Resilience.
Self-Development.
Nimble Learning.