Servers Technician

Hostings House is seeking a highly experienced Server Technician with a minimum of 10 years of hands-on expertise in enterprise server infrastructure, virtualization, networking, data-centre operations, and hybrid-cloud environments.

The ideal candidate must be capable of independently deploying, managing, securing, monitoring, and troubleshooting physical, virtual, and cloud-based production systems. Strong experience with SolusVM, VMware, Linux, Windows Server, enterprise hardware, AWS, Azure, GCP, advanced networking, storage, backup, disaster recovery, and infrastructure security is essential.

Experience working with a Managed Service Provider, hosting company, ISP, cloud provider, or data centre is strongly preferred.

• Deploy, configure, and manage enterprise rack, blade, virtual, cloud, and hybrid server environments.
• Administer Linux and Windows Server infrastructure across production, staging, backup, and disaster-recovery environments.
• Manage virtualization platforms including SolusVM, VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere, Proxmox, KVM, and Hyper-V.
• Design and maintain high-availability clusters, shared storage, replication, failover, load balancing, and live migration systems.
• Deploy and manage infrastructure on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Design secure hybrid-cloud integrations between on-premises infrastructure and public cloud platforms.
• Configure and troubleshoot advanced networking, including TCP/IP, VLANs, DNS, DHCP, NAT, routing, switching, VPNs, firewalls, and load balancing.
• Manage enterprise server hardware, RAID, SAN, NAS, iSCSI, storage performance, firmware, and hardware-failure recovery.
• Administer hosting environments using cPanel/WHM, Plesk, DirectAdmin, Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed, IIS, and reverse proxies.
• Implement server hardening, access control, SSL/TLS, patch management, vulnerability remediation, monitoring, and security policies.
• Design and maintain enterprise backup, disaster-recovery, business-continuity, and infrastructure-monitoring solutions.
• Lead server, virtualization, data-centre, website, database, and cloud migration projects with minimum downtime.
• Diagnose and resolve complex server, cloud, virtualization, networking, storage, security, and performance incidents.
• Conduct infrastructure audits, capacity planning, performance optimization, root-cause analysis, and preventive maintenance.
• Maintain technical documentation, infrastructure diagrams, server inventories, IP allocations, backup procedures, and incident reports.
• Coordinate with data centres, cloud providers, ISPs, hardware vendors, and technical teams during deployments and critical incidents.
• Define infrastructure standards, mentor junior technical staff, and support critical maintenance activities when required.

• Minimum 10 years of hands-on professional experience in enterprise server administration, infrastructure engineering, cloud operations, networking, or data-centre management.
• Proven experience working with an MSP, hosting company, ISP, cloud provider, data centre, or large enterprise infrastructure team.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise rack servers, blade servers, storage systems, RAID technologies, remote-management tools, and data-centre infrastructure.
• Advanced experience with SolusVM, VMware vSphere, VMware ESXi, Proxmox, KVM, Hyper-V, or equivalent virtualization platforms.
• Expert Linux and Windows Server administration skills.
• Strong production experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Proven experience designing and managing on-premises, cloud, and hybrid-cloud infrastructure.
• Advanced understanding of TCP/IP, VLANs, DHCP, DNS, NAT, subnetting, routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs, and load balancing.
• Strong experience with enterprise server security, disaster recovery, backups, high availability, storage, monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Ability to independently diagnose complex infrastructure issues and implement permanent solutions.
• Strong documentation, incident management, communication, leadership, and decision-making skills.

Preferred Certifications

• One or more of the following certifications are strongly preferred:
• VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization
• Red Hat Certified Engineer — RHCE
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator — RHCSA
• CompTIA Linux+
• Cisco Certified Network Associate — CCNA
• Cisco Certified Network Professional — CCNP
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Google Professional Cloud Architect
• Equivalent enterprise certifications and extensive demonstrable experience may also be considered.

• Competitive salary based on experience, certifications, and technical expertise.
• EOBI, Provident Fund, annual leave, casual leave, and medical leave according to company policy.
• Opportunity to manage enterprise servers, cloud platforms, virtualization clusters, hosting infrastructure, networking, and security systems.
• Professional training, certification support, and career-development opportunities.
• Career progression in infrastructure architecture, cloud engineering, DevOps, networking, cybersecurity, or IT operations leadership.