Senior Systems Administrator

2 days ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Preacta Recruitment Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

As the Senior Systems Administrator, you will be responsible for managing uptime for our customer facing system infrastructure and maintaining applications system infrastructure. Ability to design and scale infrastructure for performance, uptime, and cost is needed in the role. If you're passionate about cloud-based infrastructure, automation, and keeping systems stable at scale, we want to hear from you.

What You Will Do

  • Automate reproducible infrastructure to maintain predictably and security.
  • Support infrastructure for both production and development systems.
  • Continuous Integration and Deployment Infrastructure: working knowledge of Git, CI tools like Github Actions, Jenkins to maintain continuous builds & deployments.
  • Ability to maintain hundreds of servers through predictable and repeatable automation with provisioning and configuration management tools like Terraform.
  • Develop CI/CD pipelines tailored for mobile app development, ensuring efficient build, testing, and deployment processes.
  • Share strong knowledge in Linux/Unix administration.
  • Strong understanding of networking like DNS, NAT, Internet Gateways, stateless applications to maintain an effective microservices architecture.
  • Working knowledge of RESTful architecture design and HTTP protocol.
  • Be able to respond and troubleshoot Production outages 24/7 for a global SaaS platform.
  • Automate 24/7 monitors and checks to provide real-time insight into Production systems.
  • Strong knowledge in load balancers, microservices architecture, and designing and maintaining highly available systems.
  • Use recyclable infrastructure, utilize shared resources effectively using containerization tools like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
  • Willingness to constantly learn and innovate and improve infrastructure and automation as the DevOps space continues to evolve.
  • Be creative in finding ways to increase security while maintaining agility.
  • Willing to innovate and propose new ideas and technologies help the business continue to scale effectively.
  • Ability to co-innovate and propose new design and architecture along with system architects.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • Experience working within a DevOps environment with hands-on DevOps experience with expertise in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud platforms (AWS).
  • Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, and/or SaltStack).
  • Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, and Go.
  • Expertise in container technologies (Kubernetes) and networking tools (HAProxy, ALB).
  • Working knowledge of RESTful microservices architecture design.
  • Ability to design global, highly available architecture.
  • Candidates that currently live in Australia and are Australian Citizens or Permanent Residents without any restrictions to work in Australia are preferred.

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