AMECRON Nigeria Limited is an indigenous firm established and incorporated on the 26th of June 1980, under the companies and allied matters decree of Nigeria, 1968. Primarily set up, as a consulting Civil Engineering firm, the company served both the private and public sectors for a decade, before entering into the Oil and Gas industry in the turn of the decade (1990).
Job Description
- The Linux Systems Administrator is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure.
- This position assists project teams with technical issues in the initiation, planning and implementation phases with multiple departments, clients, and vendors.
- The Linux Systems Administrator will be involved in the continued implementation, rollout, maintenance, and support of all corporate software and servers and related infrastructure.
- This individual participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure.
- This individual ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values and enabling staff.
- The ideal candidate is a strong technology professional with experience in a variety of environments for server and application administration for all development, testing, and production systems.
Responsibilities
The key responsibilities include:
- Ensure HSE goal zero is achieved in all aspect operations service delivery.
- Ensure that servers’ availability is within agreed SLA.
- Incident/Problem resolution on escalation from 1st and 2nd Line Support
- Ensure backup operations are up and running.
- Ensure adherence to established processes.
- Events and capacity management
- Operations support for Hosting and Storage projects
- Hosting and Storage infrastructure security monitoring and remediation
- Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary.
- Develop, maintain installation and configuration procedures through the change management process.
- Participates in internal and client project planning for business systems and is relied upon to research and develop solutions/suggestions.
- Interface with hardware/software vendors to provide guidance on design and usability.
- Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks.
Job Purpose
- Provide technical expertise for RedHat Linux
- Provide technical expertise for Suse Linux
- Provide infrastructure support for Linux based applications.
- Provide infrastructure benchmarks and ensure projects are delivered to operations specification.
- IT security and compliance management
Key Interfaces
- DBA & Middleware Team
- Hosting and Storage Project Team
- IT Security and compliance Team
- Subsurface and Wells Team
- Exploration, Geophysics and Reservoir Engineering Application Support Team
Job Dimension
- Works as part of a team that provides support for about:
- Suse Linux servers and 2 support systems
- Physical & Virtual Linux servers
- Linux clusters with cluster nodes
- VWS Linux and Windows Workstations
Special Challenges:
- Understanding of Operations Delivery process
- Understanding of Enterprise Services, Delivery Verticals, Business Interface and IDSO
- Understanding the nature of cross function reporting and communication
- Understanding of virtualization technologies with focus on VMware vSphere
Requirements
Educational Qualification & Experience:
- Candidates should possess a Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, physical sciences, or Engineering.
- Ability to speak read and write in the English language.
- At least 5 years’ experience in Systems Administration within the Unix or Linux environment
- Formal Professional Training and Certification in RHCE and ITILF will be added advantage.
- Formal Professional Training on Linux System Administration & Troubleshooting and IT Service Management skills.
- Experience in working with or a good awareness of NetApp Storage Infrastructure.
- Has excellent project management skills to build and execute project plans for system upgrades, patches, rollouts, etc.
- Good understanding of the EP business
- Good understanding of the trends in the IT industry
- Ability to lead and manage third party personnel.
- Ability to manage relations with peers and senior EP business managers effectively in various organisations.
- Strong interpersonal skills, which are critical and required to develop the professional respect essential for successful performance.
- Natural flair for documentation and knowledge sharing
- Ability to communicate with and understand the needs of clients.
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