Job Description:
To support the company’s infrastructure and to lead the team. The company has a substantial private sector client base across South Africa and neighbouring countries, and offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Head Office is based in East London
Education and Experience:
- Matric or Grade 12 or NQF4.
- Information Technology - national diploma or bachelor’s degree (optional).
- Relevant Information Technology technical qualification.
- Appropriate Certifications with regards to both server and network environment.
- Valid Driver’s license
- Minimum of 5 years relevant technical and managerial experience
- Excellent knowledge of best practices around management, control, and monitoring of server and VM infrastructure
- Experience in leading and managing a team of technical staff.
Responsibilities:
- Implement, configure, maintain Infrastructure, servers, virtual machines and network systems including the security thereof.
- Provide Technical Support to both internal and external clients
- Recommend Solutions, evaluate industry trends and assist in implementing standards and best practices.
- Create technical documentation for processes, procedures, changes, upgrades and implementation plans and reports to management
- Monitoring computer systems to identify how performance can be improved and to solve issues and problems ensuring high availability and security
- Implement, maintain and support cloud-based systems including Azure.
- Provide technical support for internal Application Systems and Email.
- Lead and manage a team of 6 IT Technical resources.
Competencies:
- T roubleshooting and problem resolution
- Technical understanding and proven working experience in terms of setup and configuration of Servers, VMWare, and backup software
- Technical expertise and knowledge with regards to general networking.
- A sound understanding of Windows Server 2012 and up, including: WSUS, File Server, AD, DNS, Exchange server, VMWare 6.5 and up.
- VEEAM Backup and Replication, including DR configuration, backup jobs and schedules.
- Server and SAN experience – RAID Configurations, LUN configurations, best practise techniques.
- Working knowledge of HP and Dell server platforms.
- Exposure and/or experience with AZURE will be a huge advantage.
