Linux System Administrator
2025-08-22T11:53:37+00:00
Platinum Advisory Consulting
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FULL_TIME
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Consulting
Computer & IT
2025-09-07T17:00:00+00:00
Kenya
8
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.
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.
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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Vacancy title:
Linux System Administrator
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Consulting, Category: Computer & IT]
Jobs at:
Platinum Advisory Consulting
Deadline of this Job:
Sunday, September 7 2025
Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi | Kenya
Summary
Date Posted: Friday, August 22 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
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.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 60
Level of Education: bachelor degree
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