Senior Linux Engineer, Gauteng, R125k pm

ScoutIT

Date: 7 hours ago
City: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Salary: ZAR 100,000 - ZAR 125,000 / mo
Contract type: Full time

What if your infrastructure work powered one of the most recognisable brands on the planet?

We're looking for a talented Infrastructure Engineer to join an incredibly exciting team — where you'll be at the heart of designing and delivering high-availability Linux solutions that are resilient, encrypted, and bulletproof — protecting and powering the company's most critical production environments and applications across the world.

This is infrastructure engineering at its highest level — complex, meaningful, and genuinely global in impact.

  • Minimum of 7 years of IT operations, configuration management and automation experience
  • Proficiency with major Linux distributions (Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, etc.)
  • Strong command line and shell scripting skills (Bash Perl, Python)
  • Installation and configuration of Linux desktop environments
  • Troubleshooting hardware, software, and network issues
  • User and permission management
  • Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPN, firewall)
  • System monitoring and performance tuning
  • Experience with package managers (apt, yum, rpm)
  • Familiarity with Linux desktop environments (GNOME, KDE, XFCE)
  • Remote support using SSH, VNC, RDP
  • Backup and recovery procedures
  • Application of security best practices (patching, firewalls, SELinux)

R100k to R125k pm

Intrigued? You should be. Let's talk.

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