Company background:
BulkSMS.com is a division of Celerity Systems (Pty) Ltd. and has been operating for the last 17 years. BulkSMS.com provides application-to-person (A2P) messaging services to large and small businesses, public benefit organisations, and individuals. The company has a global market presence in more than 200 countries, including Europe, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
The BulkSMS Infrastructure team is responsible for operating the global messaging platform, delivering messages to hundreds of mobile networks daily. We are looking for talented, passionate, and highly-creative individuals with the drive to make a wide-ranging impact on our organization's products, operations, and services who is interested in joining our team on a full-time basis.
As a member of our Infrastructure team, you will be responsible for contributing to the architecture, design, automation, deployment, monitoring, and senior-level support of our solutions and services.
Salary will be based on qualifications and experience, but the expectation is for the yearly cost to company between R480,000 and R720,000 per year(40K to 60K per month). We will still be interested if your skill level exceeds this price bracket and we are ready to be impressed.
Knowledge and experience required;
Qualifications:
Although a degree or diploma is not required for this position as we value knowledge and experience, a degree or diploma in networking and/or systems will establish basic knowledge. We do however require extensive hands on experience above all else, please see the next section for detail on this.
Sysadmin experience:
Proven scripting ability in tooling and automation beyond simple bash
Experience with configuration management (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
Minimum of 7 years of IP networking
Minimum of 7 years of Linux experience
We expect you to have a deep understanding of Linux, with exposure to various distributions
Minimum of 2 years of high availability experience
Experience with Docker containers a bonus
Minimum of 2 years of MySQL database administration will be a bonus
Amazon Web Services or similar experience will be a bonus
Additional skills and attributes:
Great communication, verbal and written
Team player
Likes solving problems and building solutions
Thirst for knowledge and learning
Takes personal responsibility
Job highlights:
Help build and manage the company system infrastructure
Assist with the management and development of the company systems
Work on moving systems and services to an automated and fully deployable container platform
Assist with the strategic systems planning
As part of the sysadmin team you will use your expertise to help research and decide on the solutions to implement
Performance monitoring
Identify parameters to monitor the performance of the various infrastructure components
Building monitoring systems or configuring current systems
Investigating performance fluctuations and implementing remedies
Please send your CV and relevant docs to careers@bulksms.com . Please use the title of this advert as your SUBJECT LINE.
