IT Desktop Support Administrator

7 months ago


Cape Town, South Africa Black Pen Recruitment Full time

Our Client is a South African Defence and Aerospace company that offers turnkey defence solutions in Air, Land and Sea systems. They are a key defence solution provider to over 56 countries worldwide. They value continuous improvement, development and revision, making their company a dynamic and innovative force in the defence industry.

**Job Type**: Full Time | On-site

**Requirements**:
At least 5 years experience in a similar role

**Knowledge of Microsoft, Linux**: RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, etc.

Microsoft certification

In depth knowledge of building and maintaining virtual environments VMWare, Hyper-V, Openstack

NMS Solutions (Zabbix, PRTG, Nagios, etc.)

Backup solutions

Hands-on experience with MySQL, MS SQL, Postgres & MariaDB

Solid knowledge of protocols such as DNS, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP, NTP, and SNMP

Docker

Additional Linux certificates (RHCT, RHCE, and LPIC) will be an advantage

Data Centre experience

The ability to work within a team.

Continuous self-improvement and learning

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Logical and process thinking

Strong interpersonal skills - comfortable interfacing with all levels of company

Ability to prioritise and work under pressure

Ability to work independently

Positive attitude, portraying a professional image at all times

**Responsibilities**:
Performing server administration tasks, including user administration, security permissions, research event log warnings and errors, and resource monitoring, ensuring system architecture components work together seamlessly
Monitor data centre health using pre-existing management tools and respond to hardware issues as they arise; help build, test, and maintain new servers as needed
Maintain internal infrastructure requirements including, servers, routers, switches, firewalls, security updates, support internet, intranet, LANs, WANs, and network segments
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- Black Pen Recruitment is a global recruitment agency that targets European, African and American Markets with headquarters based in Malta (Europe) and Cape Town (South Africa).



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