About this role

Location: Lagos

Employment Type: Full-time

Responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems (hardware and software) and related infrastructure to enable continuous innovation within the information systems landscape.

Install new / rebuild existing servers.
Configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage.
Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis.
Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
Contribute to and maintain system standards
Installation of monitoring Agents and connection to monitoring System.
Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions and potential breach.
Ensure smooth running of all network monitoring systems for enterprise network and core network nodes.
Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
Create, change, and delete user accounts per request and as required.
Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
Provide support to the application development team.
Installation of agents for Backup-System and configuring Backup.
Repair and recover from hardware or software failures.
Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks.

A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent Engineering or Information Technology or Computer Science with 2 years experience
Professional Qualification (CCNA, ITIL, LPIC/CompTIA, etc.) an added advantage
Ability to leverage technology to develop and enhance functional competencies
Systems Administrative role in Linux environment
Knowledge of networking and network monitoring/management
Database Management – MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle an added advantage.
Linux, Windows Server, Solaris administration experience necessary, in that order of preference.
Experience with scripting, installation and migration concepts – in Bash, Perl, Python
Virtual Infrastructure administration experience with KVM or VMware is highly desired. Storage Area Network administration experience is a plus.
Experience supporting a high traffic customer-facing website infrastructure
Experience administering and troubleshooting load balancing appliances in a production environment
Sound understanding and extensive experience in network management
Previous years of experience working in an ISP environment, a plus.

18th November, 2026.

Systems Administrator