Ascendion
System Engineer Day 2
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Important information
Contract type:
Freelance / Contract
Location:
Central Region, Malawi
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
14 September 2026
What they need
About the role
Software System Engineer to support Day 2 operations, maintenance, and enhancement activities for IT Project. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring the stability, reliability, security, and operational readiness of mission-critical systems in a 24/7 operational environment.
Key responsibilities
- Provide Day 2 operational support for mission-critical applications and platform services
- Perform incident investigation, troubleshooting, root cause analysis (RCA), and issue resolution
- Support production deployment activities, rollback activities, and post-deployment verification
- Monitor system health, application performance, logs, and operational alerts
- Work closely with Day 1 support teams, infrastructure teams, software developers, cybersecurity teams, and project stakeholders
- Support system recovery, disaster recovery (DR), and business continuity activities
- Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines
- Deploy, configure, and manage containerized applications using Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes
- Maintain middleware and application platform configurations and support Linux and Windows server environments
- Configure and maintain monitoring dashboards, alerts, and health checks
About you
- Diploma or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related disciplines
- Minimum 3 years of relevant working experience in software system engineering, DevOps engineering, application support, production support, or platform/system administration
- Strong knowledge of Linux administration, application deployment and troubleshooting, CI/CD pipeline implementation, and container technologies and orchestration
- Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, and Git
- Experience in scripting and automation using Bash, Python, PowerShell, or Shell scripting
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as eG Enterprise, Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, or Zabbix
- Understanding of database technologies including SQL databases and NoSQL databases
- Understanding of secure system hardening, cybersecurity best practices, vulnerability management, secure CI/CD practices, and certificate and secret management
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, good communication and stakeholder management abilities
- Ability to work independently and under pressure with strong teamwork and collaboration mindset
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