Linux Systems Engineer : Managed Platform Abuse Mitigation

At xneelo, it starts with purpose. We’re business enablers offering a hosting service for our customers to create and transact online. We spend each day working hard to retain the trust of our customers. Inspired by our brand promise ‘trusted in hosting’, we deliver a web hosting service that is reliable and consistent, focusing on infrastructure stability, good value and consistent service delivery.

Would you be eager to continually improve customer value and internal efficiency through quality, innovative systems, and software solutions? Our team could use your skills, passion, and experience to develop website security and anti-spam solutions that will help the fight against spam and website attacks.

We are passionate about frequent, iterative delivery of high-quality software and aim to build lasting solutions using agile principles and the latest technology. We work together in autonomous teams that take full responsibility for their part of the xneelo ecosystem. The team is based at the company’s head office in the Tygervalley area of the Western Cape.

As a Linux Systems Engineer, you will develop, integrate, and maintain in-house and third-party solutions that promote a safe and spam-free hosting experience for our customers.

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have a passion for :

High quality and standards

Technology to serve operational and customer requirements

Programming and open-source technologies

Security, specifically web application

Anti-spam solutions

Web application firewalls

Optimal systems and simple procedures

Agile and a self-organising team environment

Sharing ideas and innovation

Learning rapidly and independently

Responsibilities :

In collaboration with the Product Owner and stakeholders, understand the needs of the customer to deliver innovative, robust website security and anti-spam solutions

Build and design tooling to support and evolve our Trust & Safety team, e.g. dashboards, scripts, and automation of customer service processes

Trend monitoring, analysis, and development of mitigation strategies for Spam and Website vulnerabilities

Develop and maintain :

anti-spam and anti-malware technologies and strategies

website malware detection systems and signatures

monitoring strategy for website security issues and its supporting infrastructure

High level of Proficiency in the following :

Scripting languages

Open-source databases like MySQL, SQLite

Linux system administration

Software design and coding

Finding and dealing with malware attacks and abuse-related incidents

Trend monitoring and threat modeling

Qualifications and Experience

5+ years of Linux system administration experience, including a successful track record in a mission-critical environment

Linux system engineering and administration focusing on Linux performance, scalability, and security

Displays an understanding of the importance, virtualisation, and administration of high-availability systems

Advantageous :

Deployment and Maintenance of Web Application Security and Malware Mitigation systems.

Debian Linux administration experience

A degree or diploma in computer science and cyber security

Experience with virtualization and cloud infrastructure

Software development experience

Experienced working within large-scale operations

Following security trends and keeping up to date with emerging threats

Management / maintenance of common web CMS systems like WordPress

At xneelo, our sincere desire is that our team members are inspired by their success and able to operate with a high level of discretion and autonomy guided by our principles and values. We hope this appeals to you and look forward to hearing from you.