Job Description
Description
At xneelo, it starts with purpose. We’re business enablers offering a hosting service for our customers to create and transact online. We spend each day working hard to retain the trust of our customers. Inspired by our brand promise ‘trusted in hosting’, we deliver a web hosting service that is reliable and consistent, focusing on infrastructure stability, good value and consistent service delivery.
Would you be eager to continually improve customer value and internal efficiency through quality, innovative systems, and software solutions? Our team could use your skills, passion, and experience to develop website security and anti-spam solutions that will help the fight against spam and website attacks.
We are passionate about frequent, iterative delivery of high-quality software and aim to build lasting solutions using agile principles and the latest technology. We work together in autonomous teams that take full responsibility for their part of the xneelo ecosystem. The team is based at the company’s head office in the Tygervalley area of the Western Cape.
As a Linux Systems Engineer, you will develop, integrate, and maintain in-house and third-party solutions that promote a safe and spam-free hosting experience for our customers.
Requirements
The ideal candidate will have a passion for:
High quality and standards
Technology to serve operational and customer requirements
Programming and open-source technologies
Security, specifically web application
Anti-spam solutions
Web application firewalls
Optimal systems and simple procedures
Agile and a self-organising team environment
Sharing ideas and innovation
Learning rapidly and independently
Responsibilities:
In collaboration with the Product Owner and stakeholders, understand the needs of the customer to deliver innovative, robust website security and anti-spam solutions
Build and design tooling to support and evolve our Trust & Safety team, e.g. dashboards, scripts, and automation of customer service processes
Trend monitoring, analysis, and development of mitigation strategies for Spam and Website vulnerabilities
Develop and maintain:
anti-spam and anti-malware technologies and strategies
website malware detection systems and signatures
monitoring strategy for website security issues and its supporting infrastructure
High level of Proficiency in the following:
Scripting languages
Open-source databases like MySQL, SQLite
Linux system administration
Software design and coding
Finding and dealing with malware attacks and abuse-related incidents
Trend monitoring and threat modeling
Qualifications and Experience
5+ years of Linux system administration experience, including a successful track record in a mission-critical environment
Linux system engineering and administration focusing on Linux performance, scalability, and security
Displays an understanding of the importance, virtualisation, and administration of high-availability systems
Advantageous:
Deployment and Maintenance of Web Application Security and Malware Mitigation systems.
Debian Linux administration experience
A degree or diploma in computer science and cyber security
Experience with virtualization and cloud infrastructure
Software development experience
Experienced working within large-scale operations
Following security trends and keeping up to date with emerging threats
Management/maintenance of common web CMS systems like WordPress
At xneelo, our sincere desire is that our team members are inspired by their success and able to operate with a high level of discretion and autonomy guided by our principles and values. We hope this appeals to you and look forward to hearing from you.
