Linux System Administrator/ Analyst - Limassol

A well-established Forex Company, being in the market for 20 years, with a people centric culture is seeking to recruit an experienced Linux SysAdmin to join their Tech Team in Limassol.

You will be responsible for maintaining and deploying Web servers, Core Trading servers, and related services and systems.

Responsibilities:

• Administration of multiple Linux CentOS servers and configurations
• Responsible for the availability of servers across products and services including proactive monitoring of systems
• Development and maintenance of configuration management to provision new servers or provide updates to existing infrastructure
• Deployments to production systems ensuring no downtime for clients as well as providing updates to deployment procedures in a variety of projects
• Provide input on stability, scalability and security of the environment and support to developers when needed
• Day to day Linux support for business requests and back-end work on internal web systems and applications
• Development work to support the team and business priorities with the benefit of gaining knowledge of applications / services maintained
• Performing releases for Windows Production services and applications
• Performing updates and maintenance for Windows and Linux Production and PRP infrastructure
• Monitoring Production systems, performing basic support, troubleshooting, and escalation
• Operations Team Rota participation

Requirements:

• Comprehensive experience in Linux based server administration, preferably CentOS including strong command of terminal and shell scripting
• Comprehensive experience in LEMP stack configuration in a load balanced, distributed environment
• Practical experience in server configuration practices and technologies (Puppet, Ansible) including building and monitoring production servers
• Practical experience troubleshooting production issues and working with different teams to understand and resolve problems and minimize impact on clients
• Practical experience deploying projects to staging or production environments
• Experience with Code as Infrastructure practices and development
• Experience in high availability, high traffic configurations
• Experience in MERN stack configuration in a load balanced, distributed environment
• Experience with Memcached / Redis configuration
• Firm understanding of concepts such as caching, proxying, content distribution, WebSockets, remote synchronization, load balancing and persistent backups
• Solid knowledge of version control tools (GitHub).
• Solid knowledge of puppet and ansible
• Solid knowledge of Windows servers’ administration
• Familiar with Disaster Recovery concepts and procedures

Benefits:

• Medical Insurance
• Provident Fund
• Learning & Development
• Well-being and Team Building activities
• Discretionary bonuses at the end of the year
• Weekly lunches
• Quarterly team building activities
• A strong culture promoting work-life balance, hybrid model, and flexibility

For more information or to apply for the above opportunity, please email Marie Pavlou: marie.pavlou@emeraldzebra.cy