Manager: Linux/unix Systems

5 days ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Pinpoint One Human Resources Full time

**Location**:Johannesburg

**Purpose**:Key Job Responsibility:
To manage the LINUX/UNIX team in order to ensure the smooth operation, installation, support and maintenance of LINUX/UNIX systems including related hardware

To train and manage staff to ensure that they have the skills required by the organization/department and are able to achieve their performance objectives

To manage the storage are network administration, management of back-up and data recovery environments

To liaise with customers and related departments to resolve service related queries and provide advice in order to ensure effective service delivery

To manage third party suppliers and service level agreements in order to ensure cost effective delivery of services

To contribute to the IT strategy and budget development to ensure that it is line with the business need

To contribute to the development of IT policies and develops and implements SOP’s accordingly in order to ensure compliance with policy and regulations

To manages the LINUX/UNIX environment and patches in order to ensure security, reliability, capacity and availability of systems for end users

To produce system usage statistics and highlight areas of concern

To maintain the system documentation in order to ensure business continuity and continuous operations

To manage internal IT projects in accordance with business needs in order to ensure effective service delivery

**Salary**:NR

**Package**:RNeg

**Country**:ZA

**Minimum requirements**:Minimum requirements:
National Diploma in IT (NQF Level 6)

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)/ Red Hat Certified Administrator (RHCA)

8 years relevant expereince with 3 years in a supervisory/ project management or team lead capacity

Storage Area Network Certification

VMware certified professional (desirable)

Valid drivers license

**Knowledge of/ key competency**:
**Experience with fibre channel based storage (HP3par or similar)**
**Solaris LDOM’s/ Solaris Zones Experience provisioning and configuring Solaris cirtual servers using logical domains and zones**
**Hands on cluster experience, preferable with Veritas Cluster Suite or Veritas Infoscale, Linux based cluster**
**Project management**
**Scripting skills, the most important being KORN, BASH and PERL**
**Knowledge of VMWare based systems and related virtualization tools**
**Knowledge HPBlade server environment**
**Knowledge with software and hardware RAID, logical Volume Manager**
**Knowledge of networks and routing, including security tools such as firewalls and intrusion detection**
**Trouble shoot skills of performance based problems quickly and effectively on all Unix platforms and have working knowledge of “nix based performance tools**
**Server hardening techniques including IPtables, Firewalls, SE-linux and SSH**
**Knowledge of databases (Oracle/ MySQL/ DB2 or similar) (desirable)**
**Oracle Secure Back-up experience (desirable)**
**Understanding DR processes**
**Scripting skills, the most important being KORN, BASH and PERL**
**Knowledge of VMWare based systems and related virtualization tools**
**Knowledge HPBlade server environment, Itanium based systems and ProLiant server range**
**Knowledge with software and hardware RAID, logical Volume Manager**
**Knowledge of networks and routing, including security tools such as firewalls and intrusion detection**
**Trouble shoot skills of performance based problems quickly and effectively on all *nix platforms and have working knowledge of “nix based performance tools**
**Server hardening techniques including IPtables, Firewall, SElinux and SSHKnowledge of databases (Oracle/ MySQL/ DB2 or similar) (desirable)**
**Understanding DR processes**
**Analytical and problem solving**
**Time management skills**
**Communication skills**
**Interpersonal skills



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