Senior Linux Systems Administrator

About XM

XM is a large and well-established global industry leader. Our extensive financial experience, state of the art trading environment and dedicated customer support make XM the broker of choice for online investors.

With its headquarters in Cyprus and offices in the US, UK, Australia, Greece and UAE, XM currently employs more than 600 professionals.  

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Our corporate values BIG - FAIR - HUMAN define the way we work. We are committed to identifying potential, nurturing talent and rewarding high performance.

If you are a highly motivated and passionate professional and wish to be part of our team, explore our current job openings and apply.

Position

As our new Senior Linux Systems Administrator, you will be a key member of our team, which is responsible for building and supporting various Linux systems/services within our Global IT Infrastructure including HQs / DataCenters and Cloud assets. You will work directly with the various system/service owners, lead automation, troubleshoot, fix, and escalate issues to the appropriate teams and drive the team to improve operational efficiency for all maintained systems.

The main responsibilities of the position include:

• Effectively install, configure, operate, and maintain Linux Systems (RHEL/CentOS / Fedora) software and related infrastructure
• Patch updates on OS and Applications, maintain package sources and compliance reports and patch scheduled deployments
• Maintain and improve the security posture and hardening of the Linux environments, vulnerability remediation deployments
• Automate managing users, groups, password policies and other user configurations within the NetSec department requirements
• Automate identification, categorisation, sensitivity and ownership of Linux OS and Software Assets
• Perform continuous health monitoring, improve the stability/performance of the Linux Systems and troubleshoot issues that may arise
• Evaluate new technologies, review/ improve current ones
• Perform backup/restore/rollback and disaster recovery operations in Linux Infrastructure environments
• Communicate with other teams for mitigation of any issues with managed environments
• Create, update and organise technical documentation and knowledge base for the team and other departments

Your qualification

• 3+ years of Linux Systems administration; deep knowledge and experience with RedHat based Operating Systems
• Working experience with shell command line usage, scripting, using automation tools, experience with Ansible are considered as an advantage
• Hands-on experience in administering, provisioning, configuring, tuning and monitoring of application web servers (Apache / Nginx), databases (SQL and NoSQL), logging (ELK) and HA systems (AWS ELB / HAProxy)
• Experience with the best practices of virtualised and/or containerised environments (VMware / VirtualBox / Docker)
• Experience with Content Delivery Networks (AWS CloudFront / Akamai Ion)
• Experience with technologies and methodologies of CI/CD processes (GitLab / Jenkins)
• Self-driven, with ability to take ownership of issues and follow them through to complete resolution
• Ability to use own initiative, prioritise tasks and work either independently and / or within a team
• Strong technical documentation abilities
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

Will be a plus

• RHEL / LPI Certification
• AWS Certification
• Terraform experience

What we offer

• Attractive remuneration package
• Intellectually stimulating work environment
• Continuous personal development and international training opportunities
• Attractive relocation package and support for a smooth relocation for you and your family

Additional details

• Type of employment: Full time
• Location: Cyprus / Greece / Remote