What to expect:

• Work through all phases of the system administration life cycle, including capacity planning, architecture design, compliance, deployment & configuration, monitoring, and incident management.
• Develop automation scripts, infrastructure as code, and tooling using industry best practices to improve system reliability, reduce manual effort, and enable self-service.
• Review system architectures design, deployment strategies, observability setups, and operational documentation to ensure reliability and operational excellence.
• Analyze production issues, identify root causes, and implement long-term reliability improvements through automation, monitoring, and architectural enhancements.
• Work collaboratively with other team members and provide guidance to more junior team members.
• Organize an efficient handover through high quality documentation and training.
• Automate the deployment and operation of multi-tenant infrastructure, handling tasks that ensure system resilience and availability.
• Develop and maintain monitoring tools, dashboards, and self-healing mechanisms.
• Participate in on-call rotations, conduct blameless postmortems, and drive continuous learning.
• Work closely with developers, product teams, and engineering stakeholders to troubleshoot issues, improve systems, and integrate reliability improvements
• Capable of providing accurate project estimates and strategically adapting plans throughout the project lifecycle.

What will make you successful?

• Minimum 10 years of system administration experience in an (preferably) international setting.
• Minimum 2 years of experience leading project.
• Familiarity or experience with data ingestion with big data technologies (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana and kafka).
• Experience with CICD development & deployment tools such as Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, Git, and Docker.
• Proficiency in Linux OS
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g. Python, PowerShell, YAML) with the ability to develop tools and infrastructure as code (Preferably Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Understanding of distributed systems and microservices architectures, including REST and SOAP APIs.
• Hands-on experience with ITIL processes, including Incident, Problem, and Continual Improvement, is an advantage.
• Experience working within an Agile-driven environment.
• Practical experience in building metrics for data-driven reporting.
• Strong interpersonal skills with a customer-centric mindset and ability to work effectively across diverse cultures.
• Proven ability to collaborate with both local and remote teams across different time zones.
• Familiarity with or experience in managing VM hosts using vCenter is an advantage.