You’ll collaborate closely with our server team, sharing responsibility for our Linux hosting infrastructure. Your mission is to safeguard uptime, stability, performance, and security across all servers.

We trust you to make sound technical decisions, proactively implement improvements, and uphold infrastructure governance standards.

Key Responsibilities

As a Linux System Administrator, you will:

• Manage, monitor, and update our Linux servers running cPanel & WHM.
• Provision and deploy new cPanel servers (installation, hardening, DNS setup, backups).
• Apply OS updates, patches, kernel upgrades, and security hardening.
• Respond to outages with urgency, diagnosing and restoring systems effectively.
• Define and enforce governance standards (SOPs, security baselines, change control).
• Enhance monitoring, alerting, and performance reporting.
• Oversee backups, restores, and disaster recovery testing.
• Troubleshoot performance, networking, and hosting issues at the system level.
• Document infrastructure, build processes, and recovery procedures.
• Partner with support teams on escalated technical issues.
• Participate in after-hours on-call rotation when required.

Required Experience & Skills

• 3+ years of hands-on Linux system administration.
• Strong troubleshooting in live hosting environments.
• Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Python, or similar).
• Solid networking knowledge (DNS, TCP/IP, firewalls).
• Experience with automation tools (e.g., Ansible).
• Strong documentation and process discipline.
• Ability to work independently and mentor junior admins.

Certification (Mandatory): Valid Linux certification (RHCSA, RHCE, or equivalent). Applications without certification will not be considered.

Preferred Experience

• Managing production cPanel/WHM environments.
• Implementing governance frameworks.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Nagios, Zabbix, Grafana).
• Exposure to virtualization/cloud (VMware, Proxmox, AWS).
• Background in web hosting or ISP environments.