IT Technical Specialist

1 week ago


Durban, South Africa Adapt IT Full time

Primary Responsibilities for the Role
- Monitoring, maintenance and support of systems and ICT infrastructure
- Administration of Microsoft operating systems
- Administration of virtualized or cloud environments
- Network Administration
- Administration of SQL Server environments
- Implementation
- Maintenance
- Setup and Maintenance of SQL Jobs and DTSx jobs
- DBA Functions
- Backups Procedures
- Recovering Strategies
- Performance tuning
- Windows Servers Administration. (Live Client Hosted Servers, Internal and Development)
- Terminal services - Setup, Maintenance and Support
- Windows Servers - Setup, Maintenance, Backups and Support
- Veeam Servers - Setup, Maintenance, Backups and Support
- IIS - Setup, Maintenance, Backups and Support
- Backup & recovery procedures.

Technical Skills
- Strong background of desktop support, Windows server support, and LAN / WAN / internet connectivity
- Project experience on infrastructure implementations
- Understanding of network technologies including routing, ISP offerings and service contracts
- Excellent administrative, communication and people skills
- Strong experience with Virtualization technologies.
- Experience with cloud IAAS technologies (AWS/Azure)
- Competent in SQL Server Functionality and T-SQL
- Knowledge of Linux and Unix operating systems is an advantage
- Support TS Functionality
- Installing Microsoft SQL Server
- Understand Software Integration
- Able to support and maintain the hosted servers
- Ability to:

- Install SQL Server with correct collations
- Understand and setup SQL Jobs and DTSx jobs

Desired Skills, Experience and Qualities:
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**Education & Qualification**
- Recognised tertiary qualification (Diploma in Information Technology or equivalent)
- Certification in current Microsoft Technologies (MCITP)
- Cyber Security Certification will be preferred
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Must have good problem-solving skills
- Ability to work under pressure and after hours
- Must have resilience
- Must have good planning and organisational skills and meet all deadlines

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**Relevant Experience**
- Minimum 5 years working experience in implementing and maintaining IT infrastructure solutions, including server deployments, Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory, and LAN/WAN and network security infrastructures on Microsoft architectures
- Minimum 5 years work experience managing MS SQL Databases

**Driving Value**
- _Actively seeking and implementing opportunities to maximize value in any aspect of the business._
- Setting a culture of continuously striving for better performance
- Challenging the current state in order to seek real improvements

**Leading People**
- _Motivating and developing people to deliver superior results in a responsible manner_
- Building and maintaining effective culture
- Creating a climate in which individuals and teams develop their potential and contribute their best
- Managing accountabilities and providing timely and constructive feedback
- Coaching and providing development opportunities that enable high performance

**Leading Self**
- _Taking responsibility and accountability for own behaviour, performance and development_
- Taking ownership for own performance and decisions and their impact on the business
- Demonstrating tenacity and resilience even when faced with obstacles
- Seeking opportunities for personal feedback, learning and development
- Acting decisively when tough or quick action is required


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