Senior ICT Support Engineer — Linux & Security Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Senior ICT Support Engineer — Linux & Security to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Support and maintain firewall, UTM, IDS and IPS systems;
- Support ICT governance initiatives and provide input into policy/procedure development;
- Suggests areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions;
- Communicate areas for improvement to management, to improve the overall effectiveness of security safeguards and controls in the organization;
- Respond to emerging threats and other forms of targeted attacks, organized crime, ransomware etc;
- Report to Manager ICT and provide input and support on ICT projects where required;
- Constant monitoring and notifications of open source vulnerabilities in our applications through the use of Nexus Repository and Nexus Lifecycle;
- Support and maintain Linux Server environments and Open Source Platforms/Tools;
- Installing and configuring tools for event monitoring, capacity planning, performance monitoring, etc;
- Advise on the installation, configuration and upgrade servers in line with policy and system requirements.
Requirements:
- 1+ years’ experience with Fortigate UTM appliances or Mikrotik firewall;
- 1+ years’ experience with virtualization e.g. VMware, KVM;
- Experience with performance optimization and capacity planning of virtualized environments;
- Experience with penetration testing, cybercrime countermeasures and cyber security assessments;
- Rolling out and support of open source solutions;
- Exposure to backup products such as Backup Exec and Veeam Backup and Replication;
- Monitoring solutions such as Nagios, Zenoss, Zabbix;
- 5+ years hands on firewalling/security experience;
- Automation/deployment tools such as Ansible;
- IT Security assessment/Ethical hacking experience advantageous;
- 5+ years’ experience and working knowledge of Linux;
- Experience with managing a Microsoft Active Directory Environments advantageous;
- Advanced knowledge of networking fundamentals (all OSI layers);
- Strong troubleshooting skills;
- Redhat and CentOS skills.