Senior Systems Administrator

Confidential
Full-time Cape Town, Cape Town IT / Computing / Software
Posted:
February 20, 2026
Location:
Cape Town, Cape Town, South-Africa

Job Description

Key Requirements Qualification: Tech IT with 13 years; OR Eng/B.Sc Hons IT 9 years; Experience: 9 years of relevant experience includes: System Administrator oriented role, preferably in a high-performance computing environment Knowledge: Linux system installation, configuration and administration Operating systems (Windows, Linux, Ubuntu, ) Security (intrusion detection, data backup/recovery) Scripting (Python, C C++ Programming Language) Databases (SQL ) Hardware (server hardware, storage systems and other related components) Infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef) Distributed monitoring and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic) Distributed logging (e.g., ELK stack) Deployment (e.g., MaaS, FAI) Virtualisation and containerisation (e.g., Openstack, proxmox, Docker Continuous integration (e.g., Jenkins, Buildbot, Github Actions) Distributed Storage (e.g., Ceph, Lustre, MinIO) Knowledge of high-performance computing infrastructure Knowledge of Ethernet networks Plea...

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Job Overview

Job Type: Full-time
Location: Cape Town, South-Africa
Posted: February 20, 2026
Deadline: April 01, 2026