Junior System Administrator (Monitoring Team)
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Job description
About the role
Join a partner company’s Monitoring Team as a Junior System Administrator. You will help keep products and infrastructure healthy by responding to alerts, investigating issues with Grafana and Zabbix, and escalating incidents when needed.
Key responsibilities
- Monitor health and performance of services, handling 150‑250 alerts per shift.
- Investigate alerts using Grafana dashboards, Zabbix metrics and runbooks.
- Resolve issues directly or escalate to senior technical teams.
- Troubleshoot Linux and Windows servers and common infrastructure problems.
- Support primary and senior duty administrators and participate in major incident response.
- Take ownership of primary duty shifts after onboarding.
- Collaborate with a distributed international team across time zones.
Required profile
- 2+ years in system administration, NOC, monitoring or related technical support.
- Strong Linux command‑line skills (SSH/VPN, Bash scripting).
- Experience with Zabbix and Grafana at user level.
- Familiarity with Jira and Confluence for tracking and documentation.
- Willingness to work rotating 5/2 and 2/2 day‑and‑night shift schedules.
- English proficiency at B1 level or higher.
Required skills
- Linux command‑line operations
- SSH/VPN connectivity
- Bash scripting
- Zabbix monitoring
- Grafana dashboards
- Jira issue tracking
- Confluence documentation
What we offer
- Fully remote, full‑time position.
- 28 vacation days and 7 wellness days per year.
- Referral bonuses up to $5,000.
- 50% reimbursement for professional training and conferences.
- Health benefit reimbursement up to $1,000 annually.
- Workplace setup support with equipment reimbursement.
- Gamified recognition program with merchandise and activity rewards.
- Opportunity to work with an international, distributed technical team.
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