Systems Administrator

We are seeking a skilled Systems Administrator to join our team at Mindera. As a Systems Administrator, you will be responsible for managing and maintaining our organization's computer systems and networks. You will handle tasks such as installing and configuring software and hardware, monitoring system performance, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring data backup and recovery.

You will work closely with other IT professionals and departments to ensure smooth and efficient system operations. We are looking for someone who is detail-oriented, proactive, and has a strong technical background in systems administration.

Expected travelling time: 0%-15%, varies according to project/client.

Requirements

You are good at

• Configuring and troubleshooting GNU/Linux, MacOS and Windows
• Networking, routing, IP addressing and VLAN planning, configuring VPN connections
• Managing IDS/ IPS and firewalls, Iptables, pf (pfSense), Cisco ASA, etc
• Directory services (MS AD, FreeIPA, other LDAP), SSO and RADIUS
• Managing and optimising relational databases such as MS SQL, PostgreSQL or MariaDB
• Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Backup strategies
• Metrics, graphs and everything around monitoring and alerting (Zabbix, Syslog, ELK/Elastic Stack)
• Writing code to automate processes and tasks
• Containers and orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes would be a nice to have

You rock at

• Configuration infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible and Terraform
• Change management and Infrastructure documentation
• Virtualization and Storage (ZFS)
• One or more scripting / command language such as Bash or Python
• Feeling humble and motivated by being able to learn with and teach others
• Being self-driven and working with little supervision towards a common team or company purpose

Benefits

The Things We Really Care About:

• Health Insurance, because health comes first
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
• Profit distribution for everyone
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun!
• Training & conferences, create your own training plan
• Child Care vouchers

Other Good Things:

• Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
• We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote from Portugal is also an option. Remote from other Countries will depend on your current location and Projects.
• At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
• Partnerships with local businesses

Most of all You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together in a politics-free environment. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. Freedom and Responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy.

About Mindera

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.

We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self management attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

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Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Blumenau, Brazil | Casablanca, Morocco