Position: Linux Server Engineer(Cyprus)
Company: Exness
Category: Sysadmin
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

Unlimited by time zones, Exnessians from around the world have worked seamlessly together since 2008 to provide our traders with the best possible trading experience. Today, we stand proud with over 280,000 active traders and 1 trillion USD in monthly trading volume.

**Your role at Exness:**

We are looking forward to adding 🚀Linux Server Engineer in the Core Infrastructure team, managing Linux hosts and infrastructure software on Linux.

**You will be:**

- Manage virtual and hardware Linux servers (RedHat/CentOS, Ubuntu) in on-premise and cloud infrastructures in a 24x7 environment ensuring scalability, reliability, and security requirements.
- Support open-source software on Linux (Docker engine, DNS, LDAP, SSO, e-mail, security, monitoring, and others).
Manage website publication infrastructure (load balancers, cloud providers, CDN, WAF).
- Implement automation as much as possible developing in Ansible and HashiCorp Terraform.
- Be an expert in Linux servers and infrastructure software, helping other teams troubleshoot performance and stability issues, participating in developing infrastructure solutions ensuring reliability and scalability.


**The Ideal Candidate:**

**Technical / Hard Skills:**

- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Five years+ experience with Linux OS (both RedHat- and Debian-based) and open-source software (Docker, HAProxy, Nginx, Bind9, Postfix, FreeIPA, etc.)
- Strong hands-on experience in developing Ansible scripts
- Experience with the website technologies (load balancers, CDN, WAF, CloudFlare, SSL certificate management)
- Experience with IaaS cloud providers (AWS, GoogleCloud, AliCloud)
- Experience with monitoring and logging systems: Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, Telegraf, InfluxDB, Graylog
- Understanding of high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) technologies

**Nice to Have:**

- Experience in developing HashiCorp Terraform scripts
- Experience with Keycloak SSO, HashiCorp products: Consul, Vault
- Basic understanding of Kubernetes

**Soft Skills:**

- Be ready to keep learning new technologies
- Be a team player prepared to support, teach and learn from other team members
- Be detail-oriented and passionate about your job
- Be a critical thinker, look for issues and suggest solutions in our own and adjacent areas
- Spoken and written English – intermediate level
- Spoken and written Russian – fluent level (native speaker)


**What we offer:**

- Full relocation package 
- Medical insurance for employees, spouses, and children, including dental and optical
- Sports activities compensation
- Birthday, marriage, and baby delivery bonus
- Paid maternity leave
- Extensive learning opportunities and professional development 
- Language courses allowance 
- Flexible public holidays
- 21 days annual leave and paid sick leave 
- Flexible public holidays and Christmas break