Senior System Engineer

3 days ago


Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time R1 000 000 - R2 500 000 per year


Senior System Engineer

Minimum Requirements:

Qualification

  • VMware (VCTA or higher)
  • Any relevant vendor/storage certification
  • Fortinet Certified Professional
  • CompTIA Security +
  • 5 years of system administration experience with Microsoft and Open-Source operating environments, network troubleshooting, security principles, DBMS experience, application and web technologies, identity management, governance, and compliance practices; must have working experience with server upgrades
  • 5 years of experience providing input on improving availability and configuring
  • 5 years of experience performing system administration adhering to typical governance controls, including configuration management, access management, change control, incident management, problem management, inventory management, etc.
  • 5 years of virtualization experience
  • 5 years of storage/SAN/iSCSI experience
  • 5 years of firewall experience
  • 5 years of firewall in security administration

Technology Stack

  • Linux (Ubuntu)
  • Windows (Server 2019, 2022)
  • Virtualization (VMware)
  • Containerization (Docker)
  • Storage (Dell EMC, HP Nimble, general SAN, iSCSI)
  • Backup (Commvault)
  • Monitoring (SolarWinds and Zabbix)
  • DNS (bind9, Windows DNS Services)
  • Identity and authentication (Active Directory, LDAP, Azure AD)
  • Web Servers (Apache2, Nginx, IIS, PHP, WordPress)
  • Databases (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB)
  • FortiGate firewall

Responsibilities: 

  • Install and configure new base operating systems
  • Patch operating systems and software
  • Manage the availability and performance of systems
  • Design and implement methods of upgrading solutions
  • Monitor availability and performance
  • Access management: Create, modify, and revoke user access control lists
  • Implement and maintain a set of general system controls required to provide the necessary assurance to the Governing Authority
  • Monitor and manage backups
  • Performance and functionality troubleshooting
  • Service management
  • Security compliance: baselines, anti-virus, anti-malware, access control, auditing
  • Monitor, tune, and configure the VMware environment
  • Monitor and configure storage stack
  • Manage firewalls



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