The Amazee Group is a digital enterprise that serves clients across the Globe. We unite a team of 60 development, hosting and online marketing specialists in over 13 countries and rely on the latest collaboration technologies including Jira, Zoom, Slack, Google Drive, BambooHR, andLastPass.

This internal IT backbone is of critical operational importance. Our Group has grown to a size where the maintenance, extension, and scaling of the internal IT system requires a full-time support.

Do you loathe repetitive tasks and love to develop automation processes? Do you like to help other people with IT challenges and find new ways to optimize for efficiency? Do want to be involved in proactively scaling our internal systems to perfection? Then we may have the perfect job for you!

Responsibilities:

• Administer all internal tools (Jira, Confluence, Slack, Zoom, Google Drive, GitHub, LastPass, and more)

• Assist with the planning of rollouts for new tools and systems

• Drive the implementation and rollout of new tools and software as per the team’s plans

• Assist with designing, implementing, and managing bespoke systems built by the internal development team

• Evaluate and make suggestions on tools and software, like synchronizations, single-sign-on, etc.

• Document existing processes and usage of tools

• Conduct the technical onboarding and offboarding of new employees (setup of new accounts, support with questions, password rotation, etc)

• Assist in managing inventory, order, and decommission of our hardware

• Respond to questions from the Amazee team about managed tools and software via Slack and video chat

Requirements:

• Working during office hours in UTC+0 up to UTC+3 – you live in this timezone or like to work during these hours

• 3 years+ of Systems Administrator experience or similar

• Working knowledge of Linux, Mac OS X, Windows

• Communicate effectively via cat gifs and emojis

• You can work independently as well as part of a team

• Able to analyze problems

• You stay calm and focused when outages occur

• You are comfortable reading, writing, and communicating in English (and cat gifs)

• You have a security mindset (IE: You know why "password" is not a safe password)

• Ideally, you would already be able to write, manage, and maintain automation scripts written in Bash, PHP, Perl, etc, or you would show an inclination and motivation to skill-up in this direction

Bonus Points:

• Knowledge and experience in development of automation tools

• Experience with Docker

• Experience with IT security

We offer:

• Work in a team of creative professionals in a global organization

• Budget for personal tech equipment

• Annual budget for education, health & wellness, tech and more

• Attendance at events

Work location:

• Our office hubs in Cape Town, or Zurich, or your domicile

• You must be able to you to work duringthe UTC+0, UTC+1, UTC+2 or UTC+3 timezones

If you are excited by this opportunity we would love to hear from you.