Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company focused on solutions for chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence care, and infusion care.
With around 10,000 colleagues, Convatec operates in almost 100 countries and aims to be forever caring.
Our solutions provide benefits such as infection prevention, protection of at-risk skin, improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs.
This hands-on Linux System Administrator role is integrated into an energetic growing IT team.
The primary responsibility is to manage Convatec's global IT Infrastructure.
The Linux Engineer maintains the organization’s Linux systems with day-to-day operations and intermediate optimization, including installation, configuration, maintenance and optimization.
Duties include user access management, backup implementation, performance monitoring and troubleshooting to support business requirements.
The role requires participation in on-call rotations, incident response, and collaboration on simple projects.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the health, security, and performance of Linux servers and systems
- Maintain system stability and ensure high availability
- Implement backup and recovery strategies
- Manage capacity planning and resource allocation
- Implement and manage security controls, patches, and updates
- Monitor systems for security vulnerabilities and threats
- Enforce access controls and privilege management
- Establish best practices and standards for Linux environments
- Drive continuous improvement of systems and processes
- Install, configure, and optimize Linux operating systems
- Manage software packages and dependencies
- Provide technical support for complex issues
- Perform root cause analysis
- Develop and implement preventative measures
- Participate in on-call rotations for critical systems
- Experience with containerization platforms (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Document system configurations and changes
- Work with change requests and incident monitoring system (ServiceNow)
Qualifications
- 2 to 5 years hands-on technical experience
- Other experience in IT infrastructure technologies will be considered
- Ability to engage, motivate and inspire others to achieve a high-level result
- Problem-solving abilities to see issues through to resolution
- Ability to take ownership on simple projects
Education / Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in IT
- Certifications in Linux system administration are a plus, such as RHCSA, LPIC-1, CompTIA Linux+
Job details
- Location: Bogota, D.C., Capital District, Colombia
- Seniority level: Entry level
- Employment type: Full-time
- Job function: Information Technology
- Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Equal opportunities
Convatec provides equal employment opportunities for all current employees and applicants for employment.
This policy means that no one will be discriminated against because of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, nationality, citizenship, ancestry, sex, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, genetic predisposing characteristics or any other basis prohibited by law.
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