Professional Skills:
• 2-4 years of critical IT experience in an online company, gaming – advantage.
• Willing to be on call 24/7/365
Mandatory knowledge and proven experience in the following areas:
• Hands-on Technical experience in administration of Linux
• Strong knowledge of Networking – DNS, Load Balancing, Firewalls, routing
• Excellent background in packaging and deployment of applications e.g Java, PHP using Version control systems (GIT) and Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins)
• An excellent working knowledge of configuration management, provisioning and Orchestration tools such as Puppet, CFengine, Chef, Ansible, Salt.
• An excellent working knowledge of load balancing, high availability/clustering technologies
• Experience in managing and maintaining application delivery platforms such as F5, Stingray/Steel app, HAproxy
• An excellent general working knowledge of IT systems environments i.e. operating systems, networking, applications, platforms and databases.
• Strong public cloud background (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Strong in scripting skills (python,Perl)
• VMware – ESX administration and installation, VMware vSAN
• An understanding of project & service delivery processes, development & testing methodologies and working to Change and Release managements practices.
• Proven problem solving and analysis skills.
• Demonstrable investigative and analysis capability.
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English
Additional, advantageous knowledge and experience:
• experience with Cisco firewall technologies including Meraki
• experience in managing network devices on the LAN and WAN environment.