Linux / Unix Manager

4 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Affirmative Portfolios Full time

**Linux / Unix Manager - Johannesburg North - R887 964.00pa**

**Key responsibilities**:

- To manage the LINUX/UNIX team 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 can 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 to ensure effective service delivery.
- To manage third party suppliers and service level agreements 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 needs.
- To contribute to the development of IT policies and develops and implements SOP’s accordingly to ensure compliance with policy and regulations.
- To manages the LINUX/UNIX environment and patches 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 to ensure business continuity and continuous operations.
- To manage internal IT projects in accordance with business needs to ensure effective service delivery.

**Key competencies**:

- Experience with fibre channel-based storage
- (HP3par or similar Solaris LDOM’s/ Solaris Zones Experience provisioning and configuring Solaris virtual servers using logical domains and zones)
- Hands on cluster experience
- (Preferable with Veritas Cluster Suite or Veritas Infoscale, Linux based cluster)
- Project management
- 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

**Minimum requirements**:

- National Diploma in IT (NQF Level 6)
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
- 8 years relevant experience with 3 years in a supervisory or managerial capacity
- Storage Area Network Certification (desirable)
- VMware certified professional (desirable)
- Valid driver’s license

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