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Who is a SysOps Specialist
Uptime, automation, logs, and infrastructure resilience. The SysOps role is all about maintaining stable cloud-based systems while enabling seamless deployments — from DNS routing to SSL, email protocols to web server tuning.
Cloud Infrastructure Management
- AWS EC2, Lightsail, RDS, and S3 provisioning
- Security groups, key pairs, and IAM policies
- Monitoring cloud costs and instance usage
- DNS configuration via Route53 or registrar panels
System Monitoring & Automation
- Using tools like UptimeRobot, Grafana, Netdata, or CloudWatch
- Automating backups, alerts, SSL renewals
- Writing bash scripts and cron jobs for updates and service restarts
CI/CD & Deployment
- Configuring GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
- Deploy pipelines for static, Node.js, or PHP-based apps
- Rollback strategies and deployment logs
- Using npm, composer, pm2 for dependency and process management
Server & Firewall Management
- Ubuntu/Debian server configuration via SSH and control panels like Plesk
- UFW, Fail2Ban, and log-based filtering
- Port and proxy configuration, SSL redirection (HTTP → HTTPS)
- Service tuning for nginx and Apache
Backup & Recovery
- Automated database and file backups
- Testing recovery scenarios regularly
- Versioned snapshots, failover planning, and cloud storage sync
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
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Cloud Resource Management
- Provisioning and scaling compute instances
- Managing volumes, storage, IPs, DNS, and snapshots
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Access & Security
- SSH access setup, SFTP, key management
- IAM roles, SPF/DKIM/DMARC alignment, and permission policies
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Automation & Monitoring
- Writing scripts for deployment, updates, and backups
- Integrating alert systems for uptime, traffic spikes, and system errors
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DevOps Collaboration
- Working alongside developers during rollouts
- Ensuring staging/production parity and rollback capability
TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT
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Cloud Platforms
- AWS, DigitalOcean, GCP basics
- Usage monitoring, budgeting alerts, and scaling insights
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Logging & Troubleshooting
- Log files (auth, syslog, nginx/apache logs)
- Identifying infrastructure bottlenecks (CPU, RAM, disk I/O)
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Backup Systems
- Database exports, tarball rotation, cloud sync
- Snapshot-based rollback and failover support
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Deployment Tooling
- Git knowledge for version control and CI/CD flows
- Git hooks, GitHub Actions, and bash deployment scripts
- Rollback logic, update tracking, and release notes
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Incident Response
- Detecting and reacting to system outages or alerts
- Writing reports, escalation plans, and postmortems