Vacancy: Systems Administrator (redIT)
Location: Mowbray, Cape Town
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Customer Management
- Go to clients for project briefing, consultation, installation, and regular review sessions
- Help out in managing customer demands to ensure maximum satisfaction, and to maintain quality over quantity
- Engage in the negotiation of customer job demands and specifications and assist in creating comprehensive technical documents
- Maintain customer infrastructure and infrastructure requirements
Quality Control
- Evaluate all recommendations and solutions for consistency and accuracy
- Evaluate project requirements for accuracy, and take the lead in setting project targets and priorities
- Keep up to date with current industry standards to enhance service standards and product delivery
- Attend technical training to keep updated with technical trends, procedures and applications, and other role requirements
Assets Management and Procurement
- License Renewals
- Vendor Management
- Maintain and review order process and assignment procedures for hardware specifications and allocations
Infrastructure Management
- Monitoring assets and infrastructure
- Server room maintenance
- Domain Management
- Office security – Cameras and access control
- Regular maintenance of the generator
- Review and maintain UPS maintenance schedule
- Networking and Wi-Fi maintenance and management
- Ensure stable and reliable connectivity
- Support and maintain development and test environments
Desktop Support
- Define and maintain desktop support strategy
- Ensure all new starters receive equipment and the necessary software and set up
Cloud Migrations
- Review and refine cloud migration strategy
- Facilitate moving on prem server infrastructure to suitable cloud equivalent
- Understand cloud pricing structures and define cost effective solutions and budgets
CORE SKILLS/COMPETENCIES
Mandatory Skills / Abilities required to do the Job
Technical Skills
- Office 365 Administration
- Experience with task management tools
- Cloud based infrastructure – Azure/AWS
- Containerization
- Windows and Linux server administration
- Networking (VLAN, Virtual Networks
- Firewall configuration and management
- OS (Windows and Linux)
- Server Support and Maintenance
- Hardware and System configuration
- Scripting and Automation
- 3rd Party Vendor Management
- Experience with Procurement, Asset Management
- Experience with Server room Maintenance
Personal Attributes / Character traits required for this job
- Ability to pay attention to detail
- Must be goal oriented
- Ability to maintain focus.
- Ability to meet deadlines
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- Matric
- IT Diploma/Degree
- +5 years experience in an IT infrastructure management role
- MCSE (N+, A+)Security qualifications
- Experience with Cloud (Azure, AWS) Certifications
- PM Certification will be advantageous
RECRUITMENT PROCESS
- Competency based interview to assess above requirements
- Applicable assessment
- Background checks
- If you are interested to apply, please email your updated CV to [email protected].
- Please add the name of the vacancy to the subject line of your email.
