Senior Systems Administrator

The Hiring House • Remote, wes kaap • Posted June 03, 2026

About the Role

Key Requirements

Qualification:

  • Tech IT with 13+ years; OR
  • Eng/B.Sc Hons IT 9+ years;

Experience:

  • 9 years of relevant experience includes:
  • System Administrator oriented role, preferably in a high-performance computing environment

Knowledge:

  • Linux system installation, configuration and administration
  • Operating systems (Windows, Linux, Ubuntu)
  • Security (intrusion detection, data backup/recovery)
  • Scripting (Python, C, C++ Programming Language)
  • Databases (SQL)
  • Hardware (server hardware, storage systems and other related components)
  • Infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
  • Distributed monitoring and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic)
  • Distributed logging (e.g., ELK stack)
  • Deployment (e.g., MaaS, FAI)
  • Virtualisation and containerisation (e.g., Openstack, proxmox, ...