Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Fnz (Uk) Ltd; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology provider in financial services in Johannesburg is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer. This role involves ensuring the availability and performance of IT infrastructure, managing AIX servers, and implementing improvement projects. Ideal candidates have AIX administration skills, strong problem-solving and communication abilities, and a passion for delivering excellent service. A degree or equivalent certifications is required, with opportunities for career advancement and financial rewards based on performance.

Benefits

Career advancement based on contributions

Competitive financial rewards

Qualifications

• Degree qualified or equivalent industry certifications and experience.
• Keen interest in and knowledge of latest server and storage technologies.
• Good team player with the ability to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Ensure uptime SLAs are met by managing and resolving issue logs and scheduled maintenance.
• Monitor system performance, capacity, and growth to implement improvements.
• Ensure security of FNZ network and systems by following policies and implementing projects.

Skills

AIX operating system administration

Knowledge of automation scripting

Excellent communication skills

Superior problem-solving capabilities

Excellent time-management skills

Education

Degree or equivalent industry certifications

Job description

Role Overview

Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Johannesburg, South Africa. Full Time.

Job requisition id: REQ-*******. Posted Today.

Role Description

This role is technical in nature and is responsible for providing high quality and timely IT infrastructure support to ensure the availability, stability and performance of the FNZ datacentres, platforms and corporate systems.

Key Responsibilities

• AIX Server management
• SAN and storage array management (advantageous)
• Backup, Replication, HA and Recovery technologies
• AIX Server Security Management
• AIX Server hardware

Organisational Design

This position is part of the Infrastructure department and reports to the Infrastructure Head.

Team Responsibilities

The team are responsible for the administration and management of all development, UAT, pre-production, production and DR environments as well as internal corporate IT systems.

Core Principles

• Availability – applications that are available when the users need them.
• Performance – applications that scale with user demand.
• Security – applications that are protected from unauthorised access and data loss.
• Reliability – applications that are fault tolerant with no single point of failure.
• Value for money – shared core infrastructure improves application delivery and reduces costs per application.
• Projects – new system delivery is high quality, on time and within budget.

Specific Role Responsibilities

• Availability: Ensure that uptime SLA's are met every month for systems that you are responsible for by managing and resolving issue logs; performing scheduled maintenance to minimise disruption; managing third party support contracts where required to provide support levels.
• Performance: Ensure that performance SLA's are met every month for systems that you are responsible for by monitoring system performance, capacity and growth; suggesting and implementing performance improvements and hardware/software refreshes.
• Information Security: Ensure that the FNZ network and systems are internally and externally secure by following existing policies and procedures and documenting for audit purposes as required by ISO; implementing security projects; completing risk assessments and build guides for new and existing systems.
• Business Continuity: Ensure that FNZ-held data is secure and backed up by ensuring that regular backups are made and are tested; participating in yearly BCP & DR tests; ensuring that any new build is in line with company requirements and departmental policy for resilience and availability; documenting resilience and backup plans for all new builds.
• Training: Develop professional and technical knowledge and skills; provide technical advice and mentoring within the team.
• Project Work: Implement new projects to meet project timelines and deadlines.
• Budget: Recommend changes to the IT manager that could reduce costs in your areas of responsibility.

Experience Required

• Degree qualified or equivalent industry certifications and experience.
• AIX operating system administration skills.
• Knowledge of automation scripting.
• Keen interest in and knowledge of latest server and storage technologies.
• Successfully implemented Infrastructure projects.
• Good team player with the ability to work independently and able to take initiative, drive change and new technologies and methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills, confident in dealing with internal and external clients.
• Passionate about providing an excellent service experience for our clients.
• Superior problem-solving capabilities.
• Able to work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Excellent time-management skills – ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Excellent team communication skills, confident in dealing with internal and external clients.

About FNZ

FNZ is the market leading provider of technology and administration services to major financial institutions in the platform and wealth management sectors across the globe. We partner with life companies, banks, asset managers and discretionary wealth managers to enable them to develop and distribute financial products and services to their customers across all major distribution channels.

Opportunities

• Be part of a highly successful, rapidly growing, global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the world's largest companies.
• Remuneration and career advancement is based on individual contribution and business impact rather than tenure or seniority.
• We provide significant financial rewards for high performing individuals.

Commitment

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back.

Our Platform

We created wealth's growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.

Clients & Impact

We partner with over financial institutions and 12 wealth managers, with US$1.7 trillion in assets under administration (AUA). Together with our customers, we help over 26 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.