
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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