Senior Linux Administrator – Burnley

Ascent People Ltd

Full-time Technical Support & Administration
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Location
South-Africa, noordwes, South-Africa
Posted
July 13, 2026

Job Description

A Senior Linux Administrator with at least 5 years of experience in high-level Linux support, security, and networking. MySQL database knowledge needed.

We are a successful and long-serving outsourcing company with well-known clients.

Responsibilities:

  • Work in a team of systems engineers focusing on the daily operations of approximately 300 *nix servers.
  • Manage enterprise-size networks, ensuring resiliency and automatic fail-over through health monitoring and other techniques.

Required Technical Skills

  • Operating Systems: CentOS, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Redhat, Solaris
  • Server Inventory Tools: Redhat Network/Spacewalk
  • Firewalls: BSD PF, Iptables
  • Remote Connectivity and Authentication: Radiator, NPPPD, OpenSWAN, OpenVPN
  • Logging Software: Rsyslog, Logstash/Redis, Kibana
  • Web Server Software: Apache, Tomcat, Nginx, Varnish, Memcache
  • DNS Applications: Pow...