Linux System Administrator at Platinum Advisory Consulting

Key Responsibilities

Server and System Administration

• Provision, configure, and maintain Linux servers for production and staging environments.
• Monitor system health, performance, and usage
• Manage cloud infrastructure including VM provisioning, security groups, backups, and auto-scaling.
• Automate infrastructure tasks using relevant and approved tools.
• Support CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and containerized deployments.
• Implement system hardening, patching, and access control policies
• Monitor and respond to security incidents, vulnerabilities, and system errors.
• Manage automated backup and disaster recovery procedures.
• Provide Tier 2/Tier 3 support to development teams and technical partners.
• Maintain system documentation, diagrams, runbooks, and asset inventories.
• Collaborate with the Platform Support team to ensure developer environments are reproducible and stable.
• Assist in deploying and securing interoperability bridges
• Support custom infrastructure deployments across African countries.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
• At least 5 years of experience administering Linux systems in production environments.
• Prior experience with nonprofit or public infrastructure projects is a plus.
• Highly familiar with the Linux command line, editing key configuration files, managing installed packages via apt, snap, etc, writing/modifying shell scripts.
• Strong understanding of networking; able to configure firewalls on server
• Good awareness of security standards and best practices
• Understanding and experience with Africa’s Ministries of ICT (MOICT), Ministries of Digital Economy (MDE), Telecom Infrastructure, configurations, policies and regulations.