Technical Specialist

7 days ago


Cape Town, South Africa Progressive IT Resourcing Full time

**Administration of cloud-based systems aligned to team processes & requirements**
- Ensure the upkeep and health of the system and services are functioning correctly
- Implement preventative maintenance steps
- Maintain system back-ups and ensure recovery mechanisms are in place
- Develop and code scripts to automate certain administration tasks to speed up activities and enable re-use

**Maintain and support existing systems**
- Interpret user requirements and translate into administration solutions.
- Investigate and solve systems issues.
- Ensure systems documentation is kept up to date.

**Ensures effective operations**
- Implement approved changes as per change control and security process
- Plan, organised and control own work effort, including regular progress feedback to own and other relevant areas

**Minimum requirements**
- 3 year IT Diploma
- Specific cloud-based administration skills
- Relevant business process context knowledge
- Must be willing to learn and adapt to new technologies and tools
- Great technical skills and scripting skills

**Additional Criteria**
- Operating System admin skills using Linux, Windows and Unix
- Scripting skills using Python, JavaScript, Bash or other shell scripting languages
- AWS Cloud administration skills
- Security & Access Control - AWS IAM, Azure Active Directory, SSO, SAML, OAuth2, Credentials management, Certificates
- Virtualization concepts - Hyper-V, VMware, KVM, etc.
- Containers - Docker, Rubbernecks, Open shift, AWS EKS, etc.
- Cost Management - effective cost management for cloud-workloads
- Infrastructure as Code\Develops - codify and manage underlying IT infrastructure using technologies such as AWS Cloud Formation, Git-based code repositories, Terra form, Expansible, Chef, Jenkins, etc.

Preferable:

- API Management concepts & technologies
- Observability technologies such as ELK stack, AWS CloudWatch or equivelant
- Modern Data Lake concepts & technologies
- Event-streams platforms - Kafka, Confluent, etc.
- Middleware & Interation technologies: IBM Integration Bus\Message Broker, IBM MQ, IBM Datapowero Git-based code repository: BitBucket
- Looks beyond symptoms to uncover root causes of problems to be solved
- Presents problem analysis and a recommended solution rather than just identifying and describing the problem itself
- Anticipates potential obstacles and their impact on the accomplishment of goals and timelines and propose/ take corrective action where required Monitors and tracks progress to ensure delivery of all planned commitments, and keeps the appropriate people informed
- Prepares written reports and briefs and communicates ideas clearly.
- Discusses issues and exchanges information with partners to identify areas of mutual interest and benefit.
- Demonstrates resourcefulness in acquiring necessary knowledge, skills and competencies to adapt to change



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