Senior Systems Administrator – Burnley

Ascent People Ltd

Full-time Technical Support & Administration
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Location
South-Africa, noordwes, South-Africa
Posted
July 09, 2026

Job Description

Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, ISP, Telecoms, Redhat, Solaris, nix, CentOS, Ubuntu, Burnley

The role – A Senior Systems Administrator with at least 5 Years’ experience in Systems Administration, Security and Networking. Previous exposure to an ISP / Telecommunications environment essential.

The company – a successful and long serving outsourcing company with some big brand clients.

The candidate will be working in a team of systems engineers focusing on the daily operations surrounding an estate of approximately 300 *nix servers and therefore must have an understanding of enterprise-size networks and the importance of resiliency and automatic fail-over through health monitoring and other techniques.

Technologies / Experience

  • Operating Systems: CentOS, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Redhat, Solaris
  • Server Inventory Tools: Redhat Network/Spacewalk
  • Firewalls: BSD PF, Iptables
  • Remote Connectivity and...