System Administrator - Jeddah

Hybrid Jeddah, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia Engineering Full time

Description

You will join a team of highly qualified engineers to continue the innovation and development of our product which uses Machine Learning & Big Data technologies to analyze content from several data sources.
As a system admin, you will help us manage our cloud resources to ensure the continuity of our service. You will be responsible for configuring and securing our virtual machines, virtual networks and virtual drives and provide support to the development team by providing proper access to our resources. You will also be required to analyze application logs, operating system logs and system performance data to provide preemptive corrective plans. You will also be asked to prepare usage reports and support the CTO in resource planning and cost management. We expect you to learn fast how our system is designed, efficiently troubleshoot any issues and quickly adapt to our fast changing technologies. Lucidya offers a result-driven, fun, and dynamic environment full of challenges. Apply only if scale and complexity excite you.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

Proactively maintain, develop company virtual resources including: virtual machines, databases, virtual disks, virtual networks and other cloud services. Maintain best practices on managing systems and company services across all product environments Coordinate with different teams to ensure smooth product deployment Frequently monitoring system performance and capacity planning Perform scheduled and urgent system backups, maintenance and upgrades any time of the day Recover company product and resources in case of any unexpected downtime Work in shifts as needed Be available for on-call support as needed

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT or related field 3+ years of experience in administering cloud resources (AWS, Azure, etc.) Good knowledge in shell scripting and ability to edit various server configurations Strong background in Linux concepts Experience in building, installing, and configuring web servers such as Nginx and Apache Experience in building, installing, and configuring open source systems such as ElasticSearch, Redis, Rabbitmq, ActiveMQ, MySQL, PostgreSQL Excellent organizational skills and proven analytical, planning, and problem-solving skills* Fluent in Arabic and English