Senior Systems Administrator

The Hiring House
Full-time Cape Town, Cape Town Other-General
Posted:
March 02, 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 a...

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Job Overview

Job Type: Full-time
Location: Cape Town, South-Africa
Posted: March 02, 2026
Deadline: April 11, 2026