Description
Managed Talent Solutions, a division within Datacentrix, is looking for X10 IT Infrastructure Systems Administrators for one of their clients based in Centurion. This is a month contract. The Systems Administrators will be required to do maintenance, management, and support of the company's data centre infrastructure.
Qualifications and Skills Required: - Matric plus Diploma in Information Technology or related field
- Certifications: MCSA, MCSE or MCSD
- Certification: MCITP Enterprise Administrator (Microsoft Certified IT Professional) on Windows Server
- Certification: VMWare Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV)
- Certification: MCDBA
- Software Patch management, uptime monitoring, and top-tier support
- Extensive knowledge and experience in virtualization technologies (VMWare and Hyper-V)
- Networking skills, configuration of switches, IP ranges, and VLANs (VPN, Cisco routers, Satellite networks, Switches, VLANs, VOIP, etc.)
- Skills and experience in data-center hardware and software support and installation
- Good knowledge of backup solutions (e.g. Veritas NetBackup, Enterprise Vault, etc.)
Responsibilities: - Administer and manage processes as part of a systems administration team and be responsible for selected processes in the data-center
- System administration skills required will create a balanced team combination with cross-functional skills and experience to support the following systems and components in the data-center:
- SCCM
- SCOM
- VMWare
- Active Directory and DNS
- Back-ups and archiving
- Veritas
- Storage including a storage area network (SAN)
- Symantec antivirus
- Patch management (Ivanti)
- Server management (Microsoft Windows)
- Server hardware and software support
- Provide support to provincial and municipal offices
- Manage and monitor anti-virus products across the organization
- Manage and monitor patch management across the organization
- Resolve third-level support problems
- Maintain 99.999% uptime of data-center operations
- Server maintenance and monitoring including knowledge of SCOM
- Monitor and maintain the load-balanced internet information servers (IIS)
- Responsible for the overall infrastructure architecture, including compliance with the company’s enterprise information architecture
- Knowledge of security Firewalls
- Knowledge and experience in Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG), formerly known as Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server)
- Knowledge and experience in virtualization technologies, with special focus on VMware
- Coordinate and support team members of systems administrators
- Review change requests for completeness and analyze, prioritize, categorize, approve, and schedule change requests
- Monitor the successful completion of all change requests, including change planning, building, testing, and implementation to ensure that these processes follow the change schedule
- Review and evaluate the change process
- Manage and monitor data storage using storage area network (SAN) technologies
- Knowledge of Microsoft Clustering services
- Manage the VMWare environment
- Schedule and perform maintenance of systems
- Provisioning of datacenter infrastructure
- Evaluate new technologies and prepare documentation
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