It Infrastructure Systems Administrators X10

Datacentrix; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Part time

Job summary

A division within a leading company in IT solutions is seeking X10 IT Infrastructure Systems Administrators for a month-long contract in Centurion. The role involves maintaining and managing the data center's infrastructure, requiring strong skills in virtualization, networking, and data management. The ideal candidates will possess relevant IT qualifications and certifications, enabling them to support high-availability environments effectively.

Qualifications

• Matric and Diploma in IT or related field required.
• Certifications in MCSA, MCSE, MCDBA, and virtualization technologies needed.
• Extensive knowledge in networking, backup solutions, and data center support required.

Responsibilities

• Administer processes as part of the systems administration team.
• Manage and monitor data center operations and patch management.
• Provide support to provincial and municipal offices.

Skills

Virtualization technologies

Networking skills

Server maintenance

Patch management

Data-center hardware and software support

Education

Matric plus Diploma in Information Technology

MCSA

MCSE

MCITP Enterprise Administrator

VMWare Certified Professional 6

MCDBA

Job description

DescriptionManaged 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.

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% 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