Senior Network & Systems Engineer (12 Months Contract)

About the role

Ensure the continuous availability, performance, and reliability of the Bus ETA application infrastructure hosted in the data centre.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and maintain physical and virtual servers supporting the Bus ETA system.
• Monitor system health, capacity, and performance to ensure high availability.
• Manage, review and ensure the administration work done on the operating systems, virtualization platforms, storage, and server hardware are performed correctly and regularly on time.
• Manage, review and ensure the maintenance work done on the UPS systems, server racks, and environmental monitoring within the data centre are performed correctly and regularly on time.
• Manage, review and ensure the routine maintenance, patching, firmware upgrades, and lifecycle management are performed correctly and regularly on time.
• Manage, review and verify change/service requests as well as oversee that works (during engineering hours) are performed correctly and on time.
• Lead incident response and recovery activities for server and infrastructure-related issues.
• Develop disaster recovery procedures and conduct failover and restoration testing.
• Coordinate with application vendors and stakeholders during planned maintenance and incident resolution.
• Produce operational reports, documentation, and standard operating procedures.

About you

• Experience with administration of Redhat server, Container (such as Podman), PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware or Hyper-V).
• Familiarity with storage, backup solutions, and data centre operations.
• Experience supporting mission-critical or transport-related systems.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Participation in 24/7 standby or on-call support for critical incidents is required.