Specialist: Server Administration (Insurance)
Location: Pretoria
Type: Permanent
Salary: R40 000 (neg) with benefits
Our client in the insurance sector is seeking an experienced and qualified Specialist in Server Administration responsible for the design, provision, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure.
Role:
- Install new/rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, storage.
- Design and support systems that provide easy and natural end-user access.
- Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media; recovery tapes or disks are created.
- Support production systems as required by optimizing performance, resolving production problems, and providing timely follow-up on reported problems.
- Repair and recover from hardware, software or networking failures.
- Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
- Resolve customer issues including complex technical scenarios.
- Establish performance standards and proactively monitor performance.
- Create and maintain system documentation.
- Establish IT policies, standards, practices and security measures to ensure effective and consistent information processing operations and to safeguard information resources.
- Work with existing systems to track and manage requests and issues.
- Familiarity with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Security, OS Internal concepts, IIS Administration experience.
- Experience with VMWare configuration and administration.
- Experience with Microsoft Management tools (SCOM, SCCM, SCSM, MS Orchestrator).
- Experience with Unified Messaging (MS Exchange 2016 and Lync/Skype for Business).
- Familiarity with networking tools (ping, tracert, tracemon, NetMon, Wireshark, etc.).
- Familiarity with networking concepts including VIPs, NAT, DNS.
- Experience with scripting tools such as XML and PowerShell.
- Experience working with and maintaining MS SQL Server, including performance tuning.
- Server clustering experience.
- Experience with data reconciliation and migration between data environments (e.g. dev, test, staging, prod, etc.).
- Experience with Virtualized storage including vendors like Dell, HP, Nimble and Microsoft. ISCSI and Fiber channel SAN - storage experience.
Requirements:
Education
- National Diploma in Information Technology
- A+ and N+
Experience
- 5 years’ experience as a network administrator
- 6 years’ experience in an IT environment
Knowledge and Skills
- Strong interpersonal skills - comfortable interfacing with all levels of the company.
- Excellent communication in English, both verbal and written.
- Well presented.
- Ability to prioritize and work under pressure.
- Ability to work independently.
- Positive attitude, portraying a professional image at all times.
- Ownership of tasks and using initiative.
- Driver's license and own reliable transport essential.
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