Posted:Nov 3
By:Hiring Kenya
Company Details
Industry:
Banking
Description:
Absa Bank Limited (Absa) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Barclays Africa Group Limited. Absa offers personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management as well as bancassurance. Barclays Africa Group Limited is 62.3% owned by Barclays Bank PLC and is listed on the JSE Limited. The Group is one of Africaโs major financial services providers offering personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management as well as bancassurance. The Group was formed through combining Absa Group Limited and Barclaysโ African operations on 31 July 2013. Reflecting the enlarged groupโs pan-African focus, the Group's name changed from Absa Group Limited, to Barclays Africa Group Limited on 2 August 2013. Registered head offices are in South Africa and the Group has majority stakes in banks in Botswana, Ghana,Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (Barclays Bank Tanzania and National Bank of
Job Description
Job Description
- Design, deploy, and maintain Linux (RHEL) systems across development, testing, and production environments.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet.
- Build, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps teams.
- Proactively monitor and maintain system performance, reliability, and security.
- Drive automation efforts to improve scalability, repeatability, and efficiency.
- Manage patching, updates, and compliance across all Linux servers.
- Troubleshoot complex system issues and provide root cause analysis.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including DevOps, Cloud, Security, and Application teams.
- Participate in on-call support and incident management as needed.
- Ensure systems are hardened and compliant with security standards and best practices.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 5+ years of experience as a Linux Systems Engineer/Administrator.
- Extensive experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and related tools (subscription management, Satellite, etc.).
- Proven experience in infrastructure automation using Ansible and Red Hat Satellite
- Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.).
- Strong scripting skills (e.g., Bash, Python, Perl).
- Good understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, etc.).
- Experience with virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware, KVM) and containerization (e.g., Docker, Podman).
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Knowledge of security best practices and compliance frameworks (e.g., CIS Benchmarks, PCI-DSS).
- Experience working in cloud or hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, OpenStack, etc.) is a plus.
Salary: Discuss During Interview
Education: Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time
