Path Solutions is looking for a Linux administrator who will be responsible for designing, implementing, and monitoring the infrastructure; also, to collaborate with other team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes for our office in Karachi ,Pakistan.

Duties and responsibilities

·         Proactively maintain and develop all Linux infrastructure technology to maintain a 24x7x365 uptime service.

·         Engineering of systems administration-related solutions for various project and operational needs.

·         Help tune performance and ensure high availability of infrastructure.

·         Design and develop infrastructure monitoring and reporting tools.

·         Develop and maintain configuration management solutions.

·         Maintain best practices on managing systems and services across all environments.

·         Fault finding, analysis and of logging information for reporting of performance exceptions.

·         Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning.

·         Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hot fixes on servers, workstations, and network hardware.

·         Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks.

·         Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment.

·         Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes.

Qualifications and Experience Requirements :

·         Working experience as a Linux Administrator for 8-12 years preferably in an IT company.

·         Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or similar relevant degree .

·         Experience with Linux servers in virtualized environments.

·         Good knowledge in the fundamentals of Linux scripting languages.

·         Experience in installing, configuring, and maintaining services such as Bind, Apache, MySQL, nginx, etc.

·         Familiarity with load balancing, firewalls, etc.

·         Ability to build and monitor services on production servers

·         Knowledge of servers and switches .

·         IN depth knowledge of Linux: RedHat, CentOS, Debian, etc.

·         Hands on experience with MySQL

·         Familiarity with VMWare and SAN management and concepts

·         Expert in Shell, Perl, and/or Python scripting

·         Solid knowledge of protocols such as DNS, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP and SNMP

·         Additional Linux certifications (RHCT, RHCE and LPIC) will be considered an advantage

·         Strong problem solving and communication skills