Linux System Administrator

Are you ready for an adventure with a young dynamic company to become part of a growing technology driven innovation company with Sub Saharan Africa as its main market?

Ignitia is an entrepreneur led business offering critical decision support for weather sensitive industries in West Africa.Based on several years of development and market traction, our science-based innovation is designed for the agriculture sector. Due to our pioneering position and proven track record we now offer the right person the opportunity to grow with the company internationally.

The position
Ignitia AB has a vacancy for a Linux System Administrator Programmer in Stockholm, Sweden, to work within a technical team of 4 members. Main duties will include:

- Improve the overall efficiency and robustness of our current super computer system,maximizing reliability and performance.
- Improve security
- Design a back-up solution for catastrophic events (supercomputer crash)
- Design and setup an archiving and data back-up solution
- Develop a technical specification for, and design our next generation supercomputer
- Maintain and perform development tasks on an Ubuntu 64 server that hosts web applications and different data streams.
- Set up a unified company computer system (central archive etc)

Qualifications
We expect you to have some experience and skills in:

- Parallel computers and computing
- Linux environment (Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu etc)
- Database management
- Scripting languages such as Shell, Perl and Python
- Server security management

In addition you should:
- Work efficiently both independently and in our technical team
- Maintain focus under rapidly changing work tasks and time pressure
- Be willing to learn new programming languages
- Have a positive attitude
- Have good written and communication skills

Location
Stockholm, Sweden with travels to our office in Ghana

Remuneration & terms of employment
Competitive salary commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Application
Please email your CV and a personal letter to [email protected] with the subject "Linux System Administrator".