Senior Systems Engineer (Linux / Solaris 11) | Pretoria (Hybrid) | Up to R1.2m per annum

e-Merge IT Recruitment
📍 IPitoli, IGauteng, South-Africa 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted February 25, 2026

Job Description

Senior Systems Engineer (Linux / Solaris 11) | Pretoria (Hybrid) | Up to R1.2m per annum

Are you a
Senior Systems Engineer
with deep
Linux and Solaris 11 expertise
looking for a high-impact hybrid role in Pretoria?

We're hiring a technically strong engineer to own, optimise and secure mission-critical
Solaris and Linux environments
in a performance-driven enterprise setting.

If you thrive on system stability, automation, security hardening and performance tuning — this opportunity was built for you.

What You'll Be Doing

Administering and maintaining
Solaris 11 OS
environments

Managing patches, SRUs, upgrades, and system lifecycle

Performance tuning and throughput optimisation

Managing
Logical Domains (LDOMs), Zones, ZFS, SMF, IPS, ILOM, IPMP

User, access & role-based security administration

Backup strategy design, testing & disaster recovery planning

Automation scriptin...

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Job Details

  • Location IPitoli, IGauteng
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category Other-General
  • Posted Date February 25, 2026
  • Application Deadline April 06, 2026