It Infrastructure Systems Administrators X10

Datacentrix; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 600 000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking X10 IT Infrastructure Systems Administrators for a month-long contract in Centurion. This role involves managing and supporting the data center infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and uptime. Candidates should possess strong networking and virtualization skills, along with relevant IT certifications. Join a dynamic team where your expertise will directly impact the efficiency and reliability of critical systems. If you're ready to take on challenges in a fast-paced environment and contribute to cutting-edge technology solutions, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• MCSA, MCSE, or MCSD certifications required.
• Extensive experience in virtualization technologies and networking.

Responsibilities

• Administer and manage processes in the data-center.
• Ensure 99.9% uptime of data-center operations.
• Coordinate and support team members of systems administrators.

Skills

Networking skills

Virtualization technologies (VMWare and Hyper-V)

Software Patch management

Data-center hardware and software support

Backup solutions knowledge

Education

Matric plus Diploma in Information Technology

Tools

VMWare

Microsoft Windows Server

SCCM

SCOM

Active Directory

DNS

Veritas

Ivanti

Symantec antivirus

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway

Job description

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:

1. Matric plus Diploma in Information Technology or related field
2. Certifications: MCSA, MCSE or MCSD
3. Certification: MCITP Enterprise Administrator (Microsoft Certified IT Professional) on Windows Server
4. Certification: VMWare Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV)
5. Certification: MCDBA
6. Software Patch management, uptime monitoring, and top-tier support
7. Extensive knowledge and experience in virtualization technologies (VMWare and Hyper-V)
8. Networking skills, configuration of switches, IP ranges, and VLANs (VPN, Cisco routers, Satellite networks, Switches, VLANs, VOIP, etc.)
9. Skills and experience in data-center hardware and software support and installation
10. Good knowledge of backup solutions

Responsibilities:

1. Administer and manage processes as part of a systems administration team and be responsible for selected processes in the data-center
2. 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
3. Provide support to provincial and municipal offices
4. Manage and monitor anti-virus products across the organization
5. Manage and monitor patch management across the organization
6. Resolve third-level support problems
7. Maintain 99.9% uptime of data-center operations
8. Server maintenance and monitoring including knowledge of SCOM
9. Monitor and maintain the load-balanced internet information servers (IIS)
10. Responsible for the overall infrastructure architecture, including compliance with the company's enterprise information architecture
11. Knowledge of security Firewalls
12. Knowledge and experience in Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG), formerly known as Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server)
13. Knowledge and experience in virtualization technologies, with special focus on VMware
14. Coordinate and support team members of systems administrators
15. Review change requests for completeness and analyze, prioritize, categorize, approve, and schedule change requests
16. Monitor the successful completion of all change requests, including change planning, building, testing, and implementation to ensure that these processes follow the change schedule
17. Review and evaluate the change process
18. Manage and monitor data storage using storage area network (SAN) technologies
19. Knowledge of Microsoft Clustering services
20. Manage the VMWare environment
21. Schedule and perform maintenance of systems
22. Provisioning of datacenter infrastructure
23. Evaluate new technologies and prepare documentation