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Platinum Advisory Consulting
Linux System Administrator

Platinum Advisory Consulting

Nairobi | Full Time | Consulting

Closing in 1 day from now

Key Responsibilities

Server and System Administration

  • Provision, configure, and maintain Linux servers for production and staging environments.
  • Monitor system health, performance, and usage
  • Manage cloud infrastructure including VM provisioning, security groups, backups, and auto-scaling.
  • Automate infrastructure tasks using relevant and approved tools.
  • Support CI/CD pipelines e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and containerized deployments.
  • Implement system hardening, patching, and access control policies
  • Monitor and respond to security incidents, vulnerabilities, and system errors.
  • Manage automated backup and disaster recovery procedures.
  • Provide Tier 2/Tier 3 support to development teams and technical partners.
  • Maintain system documentation, diagrams, runbooks, and asset inventories.
  • Collaborate with the Platform Support team to ensure developer environments are reproducible and stable.
  • Assist in deploying and securing interoperability bridges
  • Support custom infrastructure deployments across African countries.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
  • At least 5 years of experience administering Linux systems in production environments.
  • Prior experience with nonprofit or public infrastructure projects is a plus.
  • Highly familiar with the Linux command line, editing key configuration files, managing installed packages via apt, snap, etc, writing/modifying shell scripts.
  • Strong understanding of networking; able to configure firewalls on server
  • Good awareness of security standards and best practices
  • Understanding and experience with Africa’s Ministries of ICT MOICT, Ministries of Digital Economy MDE, Telecom Infrastructure, configurations, policies and regulations.

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