Senior Linux System Engineer
Provide specialist input into the departmental business plans and budgets to ensure resources/funding for delivery of projects that support the business unit's and JSE's strategy.
Collaborate with other engineers when designing solutions to ensure they are reusable, quick to market, and lower the total cost of ownership by saving JSE money.
Ensure project objectives meet the "fit for purpose" criteria to manage and control financial expenditure whilst mitigating potential risks that could affect trading due to system outages.
Take responsibility for managing capital expenditure on a project-to-project basis ensuring all project specifications have been priced correctly to not exceed budget allocations.
Identify system optimisations and improvements in both technology and process needed in current Linux compute and storage infrastructure footprint to ensure high performance and high availability of systems.
Perform "trade off analysis" of alternative technologies when recommending solutions, ensuring they fit the enterprise architecture and business drivers (i.e., costs of supportability, resiliency, and quality of solution).
Educational Requirements:
- Honor's or Master's in Business Management
- Honor's in Computer Science, Certified Linux Engineer
Compensation:
- R1 500 000 per annum + performance bonus (not guaranteed)
- Overtime and standby allowance
- Hybrid model (once a week at the office)
Key Qualifications:
- Designing and implementation experience is important
- Scripting experience
- Red Hat a must – Ansible
- Networking experience
- Not a day-to-day support person
- Replacement role
- 10 years experience
Technological Competencies:
- Basic software applications (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Internet, Email)
- Divisional service offerings
- Budget forecast assumptions
- Business continuity standard
- Business principles
- Data analysis
- Decision-making process
- Industry trends
- International Standards for Professional Practice
- Network Virtualisation Technologies
- Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
- Compute Security Principles
- Networking Protocols
- Network Engineering and Solution Design
- Expert knowledge of cron jobs
- Cron jobs
- Platform virtualization
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
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