Junior Linux Engineer Full Time Permanent

Junior Linux Engineer – Cape Town

A Junior Linux Engineer position is available in Cape Town, Western Cape, south Africa.

Please note that we will consider candidates residing in other provinces, i.e Gauteng

This position is aimed at someone with a great interest in Linux and a desire to expand their knowledge and apply their creative nature to problem-solving.
You’ll be joining one of South Africa’s top cybersecurity companies.
Come work with the latest tech, collaborating with a strong team and gain new skills and experience daily.

We will consider candidates with no security experience but would like to find someone who is passionate or interested in cybersecurity over and above working as a Linux Engineer

The successful candidate will meet most of these requirements:

• Be comfortable working with the Linux CLI including administration and system internals.
• 1 year’s Linux experience
• Basic understanding of networking protocols and common services such as HTTP (s), DNS etc
• Be attentive to details
• Pro-active team member
• Eager to learn
• Troubleshooting mind-set
• Good interpersonal skills
• Willingness to work in a team environment to improve efficiencies and solve problems as a team

Beneficial Skills:

• Have a passion for, or desire to learn or work in the cybersecurity field
• Knowledge or exposure to Python or Bash
• Knowledge of the ELK stack highly beneficial
• Familiar with Windows Server and Desktop OS’s, in enterprise environments advantageous
• Experience working with Syslog and other logs in general, will be beneficial
• Knowledge of Puppet, Docker, Github, CICD pipelines and other DevOps concepts/technologies will be beneficial
• Experience with API integrations of different platforms/solutions
• Have a broad understanding of IT systems in general. Any specialisations will be beneficial but a shallow but broad understanding would be ideal
• Qualifications in any of the following areas would be beneficial, however we are after experience and someone that is proactively upskilling themselves:
  • Linux / Networking / Sys Admin / Python / Bash

We are not concerned too much about qualifications but are looking for someone that is keen to learn and gain the experience needed, including relevant studies.

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 15 working days please consider your application unsuccessful this time around.

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