Linux (RHEL) system administrator internship – 6x Months

Are you looking to kick start your career and gain real-world experience in the fintech industry?
We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services. We are the way the world moves value – across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we’re proud to support the global economy.
 

Job Description:

In the scope of this Internship, we are seeking help to patch and apply security driven updates for our RHEL (Red Hat Linux) departmental systems that support the monthly data measurement, performance data warehousing and automated report processing. Working in tandem and continuous support from a team member, the candidate will perform the operating system upgrades on the current virtual machines while updating simultaneously obsolete software components. Where applicable he will create and maintain Podman container images with up to date software components. When necessary he will adapt Python, Perl and PHP scripts to newer software release. Additionally, if analysis demonstrates it is preferable, he will perform the migration of databases, processes and jobs from the obsolete virtual machines to new up to date virtual machines, including ensuring the workflows and processes continue working on the updated operating system and environment, ensuring the transfer of the data to the new databases, and ensuring the transfer of the processes running currently within Podman containers on the new systems.

Qualifications:

Computer Science or related discipline with a focus on computer system architecture and administration preferred

• Practical knowledge of Unix / Linux operating system and commands
• Scripting and data processing languages, mainly python, but also shell and perl; PHP is a plus
• Practical knowledge of Containerization Docker or Podman is a plus
• Practical knowledge of MySQL or MariaDB administration is a plus
• Practical knowledge of Ansible Automation Platform is a plus

Project Description:

The candidate’s tasks for this internship will include

• Review and make an inventory of the processes, jobs, databases and Podman containers running on our RHEL Linux systems
• On a need basis, perform the upgrade of the operating systems, as well as the software packages to newer release levels per the recommendation of our security department; perform roll back in case of issues
• Test and understand the constraints and differences linked to the execution of the processes and jobs on the upgraded systems and upgraded software packages (differences in the environment layout or due to software package interfaces and available APIs)
• Adapt the various scripts written in python, perl, shell, PHP and other scripting languages to the new operating systems and environment dependencies
• Manipulate Podman containers, perform the building of the container images and then start and stop those containers as needed and ensure the containers are able to execute properly
• Test that the upgraded systems run as expected and integrate properly with the other systems in the environment

• Participate, under the guidance of a senior team member, in the rewriting of a data charting tool on the web, using off the shelf components such as Bokeh

• Under the guidance of a senior team member, review possible resiliency and data replication schemes for our MariaDB databases
• Test the selected replication and recovery processes and start implementing them

What we offer

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Don’t meet every single requirement? At Swift, we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team, so if you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.