CareerFinders, on behalf of our client, one of Cyprus’ most well-established and respected CySEC Licensed Investment Firms with offices in Limassol, we are seeking to recruit a highly experienced and technically capable Senior Linux Systems Administrator to join their expanding team of professionals. The successful applicant will have approximately 5 years of relevant professional experience.

Key Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Work with the development team to manage cloud services.
• Support deployment of custom and mobile applications.
• Create/update technical documentation as required to support servers in the customer environment.
• Provide reporting on inventory and other requested reports.
• Manage a distributed hosting solution, ensuring maximum uptime and improved content delivery for customer websites.
• Update and upgrade web servers like Apache, nginx, passenger.
• Manage multi-platform Database Management System (DBMS) (SQL, Oracle, MySQL, etc.), provide Design and Administration services.
• Manage search engine platforms via an enterprise search solution or equivalent. Such as input search result boosting information into an existing search solution and ensure that search results are relevant.
• Manage the server used to host the search application.
• Support application capacity and the ability to proactively plan and scope requirements to enable scalable solutions.
• Maintain security certification and accreditation package for federally owned systems.
• Monitor and maintain infrastructure health and carry out software inventory on the project.
• Manage usage of software licenses usage on the project.
• Set up and deployment of new user hardware.
• Ensure requests are completed based on SLAs.
• Provide backup and recovery support.
• Plan, monitor, and optimize IT infrastructure to maintain high utilization and capacity.
• Automate workflow by collaborating with the development team.
• Install and upgrade software as needed.

Key Skills/Experience: 

• University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, System Administration, or another closely related field, or equivalent experience.
• Excellent command of the English language. Greek and/or Russian is an advantage.
• 5 years of experience in implementing, supporting, and maintaining a network and server environment that supports no less than 30 individuals working in a website development operation.
• Strong experience with configuration management tools (Ansible and others).
• Must be familiar with supporting and maintaining Cloud / based virtual server environments, Linux servers (CenOS and other variants as necessary), Linux Operating Systems, Storage Area Networks(SANs), VPN, intranet, Internet, and Single Sign – on (SSO) systems.
• Ability to write and modify scripts for application deployment and experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) tooling like Jenkins and others.