Senior System Administrator

5 months ago


Pretoria, South Africa MECS Africa Full time

My client is seeking a Senior System Administrator. The incumbent will be responsible for installation, testing, tuning, optimization, problem resolution, repairs, upgrades, and maintenance of a wide range of systems, including operating systems, data management products, office automation products, embedded systems, mobile systems, cloud systems, web systems, and utility enabling software. The position also entails high-level problem resolution for complex systems and implementation and monitoring of security policies across a large volume of instances. This position is based in Pretoria.

**Qualifications, skills and experience**
- A Bachelors’ Degree (NQF Level 7) or NQF 6 Diploma in computer science/engineering, or information technology.
- Certified Linux Administration.
- Certified Virtualisation or cloud Administration.
- At least ten years of experience with server environments including the following:

- Microsoft 365 Cloud Administration, configuration, and support
- Linux operating systems; installing, configuring, and supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. x and 8. x, SUSE Enterprise Linux 12 and 15, Ubuntu 22.04.
- Windows operating systems: installing, configuring, and supporting.
- Virtualization technologies: Cloud and On-premises including VMware ESXi, Microsoft Azure, etc.
- Identity and user management
- Security: Configurations, patch management and vulnerability management.

Expert knowledge in the following is required:

- Operating systems: Manage the whole life cycle of the instances.
- Automating tasks: Configuring and maintaining large number of instances with automation tools and scripting.
- Service Management processes (Problem Management, Capacity Management, Service Design, Incident Management, etc.)
- Storage solutions: SAN, Server storage, cloud storage
- Knowledge of Commvault backup and recovery

Working experience and knowledge of the following is required:

- Architecture and Design, Data Centre, and Facilities.
- Governance and legislative practices.
- Best practice ICT standards and procedures.
- logical thinking to gather and analyse information, design, and test solutions, and formulate plans

Key responsibilities:

- System Availability and Compliance: Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and adhering to ICT best practice standards.
- Monitoring and Reporting: reporting of services/systems availability and capacity.
- Stakeholder Advisory: aligning business and systems requirements with new technology implementations.
- Maintenance Planning: Develop maintenance schedules for systems equipment.
- Support Services: for the swift resolution of incidents.
- Operational Analysis: for the improvement of IT systems.
- Configuration Management: Track changes in configurations and update associated documentation accordingly.
- Incident Response: Respond to outages and other infrastructure issues promptly in accordance with SLAs

For more information please contact:
**Lisa Baxendale



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