System Admin

At Axis, our mission is to build a more accessible and equitable financial
platform to empower the over ‎100 million Egyptians with a particular focus on
the ‎70 million unbanked Egyptians. We're doing so by building digital products
to help increase accessibility to payments, money transfers, savings, and
digital access to credit.
We are an early-stage startup founded by a team with previous experience in
Fintech (mobile payments) in Egypt. Our founding team previously built Raseedy
- Egypt's first independent open loop wallet licensed by the Central Bank of
Egypt in partnership with SAIB bank.
We are looking for innovative and motivated problem-solvers to join us on our
journey. At Axis, you'll be surrounded by colleagues who are passionate about
improving how financial services are delivered by build highly accessible
financial products. If you're eager to help us build an inclusive financial
system that works for all, we want to hear from you!
We're all working out of our office at the Greek Campus in Cairo, Egypt.
* Monitoring and alerting system configuration and administration to ensure ‎24/‎7 system health reporting to assigned engineers
* Configuration and administration of servers and physical hosts.
* Installation, Configuration and administration of required OSs.
* Configuration and administration of virtual environments.
* Periodically update and check health of all security systems, appliances and applications
* Configuration, administration and maintenance of network time (NTP) to provide exact time for both Trust center appliances and TSP service.
* Logging system configuration, administration and analysis
* Maintaining the updates and patches of the running software & applications.
* Technical support renewal with vendors
* Implementation, configuration and administration of System Information and Event management appliance
* Event and security analysis

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or IT relevant is a plus


• Minimum ‎2+ years of experience in Information Technology Infrastructure and Systems Administration.


• Working Experience on Linux Systems; with its different distributions; an administration that includes but not limited to: installation, configuration, management .


• Working Experience on Virtualization using VMWare ESXi , HyperV , KVM .


• Preferred Experience on DevOps tools: Git, Ansible, docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform.


• Experienced with the orchestration of Docker containers running on Kubernetes.


• Good knowledge of cloud service providers (AWS, Google, Azure).


• Experience with performance tuning and diagnosing system bottlenecks through root cause analysis.


• Experience with software management - installations, patching of OS/apps, etc.


• Experience with Monitoring software and solutions such as [ Prometheus, Nagios, Zabbix ,Grafana, New relic …etc.].


• Basic understanding of storage systems such as SANs and NASs


• Solid knowledge about Backup and Disaster Recovery policies and best practices.


• Knowledge of configuring and managing switches/firewalls will be an added advantage.


• Excellent teamwork skills including collaboration, cooperation, coordination, Open-mindedness, brainstorming, and idea exchange.


• Excellent problem-solving, decision-making, and logical reasoning skills.


• Excellent adaptability and self-management skills.


• Excellent English skills, both written and spoken.


• Excellent attention to detail and critical observation skills.


• Good team player with the ability to work very effectively in a collaborative and team-oriented manner with other teams. Must have initiative and a positive work attitude and must be a quick learner. Must be confident, eager and willing to take on new challenges. Must be cooperative with good interpersonal, negotiation and conflict resolution skills.


• RHCSA , RHCE Certified is a Plus