Senior Linux Engineer, Gauteng, R125k pm
ScoutIT
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
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