Senior System Engineer

Boardroom Appointments; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a Senior IT Systems Administrator for our client in Pretoria. The role emphasizes maintaining highly available Windows and mixed environments, implementing security controls, and managing virtualization and storage platforms.

You will install OS, patch systems, monitor performance, manage access, and ensure governance compliance across the IT stack, including Fortinet firewalls and VMware.

Qualifications

• Fortinet Certified Professional and CompTIA Security+ required.
• 5+ years in system administration across MS and Open-Source environments.
• Experience with server upgrades and downtime avoidance.
• Experience with governance, change and incident management.
• Virtualization and storage/SAN/iSCSI experience.
• Firewall administration experience, including FortiGate.
• Active Directory/LDAP/Azure AD identity management.
• Docker containerization and VMware experience.
• Backup with Commvault; DNS (Bind9/Windows DNS).

Responsibilities

• Install and configure new base operating systems
• Patch operating systems and software
• Manage the availability and performance of systems
• Design and implement methods of upgrading solutions
• Monitor availability and performance
• Access management: Create, modify, and revoke user access control lists
• Implement and maintain a set of general system controls required to provide the necessary assurance to the Governing Authority
• Monitor and manage backups
• Performance and functionality troubleshooting
• Service management
• Security compliance: baselines, anti-virus, anti-malware, access control, auditing
• Monitor, tune, and configure the VMware environment

Skills

Fortinet Certified

CompTIA Security+

Windows Server

Docker

VMware

Storage SAN

Backup

DNS

Active Directory

LDAP/AzureAD

FortiGate

Tools

FortiGate Firewall

Job description

• Fortinet Certified Professional
• CompTIA Security +
• 5 years of system administration experience with Microsoft and Open-Source operating environments, network troubleshooting, security principles, DBMS experience, application and web technologies, identity management, governance, and compliance practices; must have working experience with server upgrades
• 5 years of experience providing input on improving availability and configuring
• 5 years of experience performing system administration adhering to typical governance controls, including configuration management, access management, change control, incident management, problem management, inventory management, etc.
• 5 years of virtualization experience
• 5 years of storage/SAN/iSCSI experience
• 5 years of firewall experience
• 5 years of firewall in security administration
• Windows (Server 2019, 2022)
• Containerization (Docker)
• Storage (Dell EMC, HP Nimble, general SAN, iSCSI)
• Backup (Commvault)
• Monitoring (SolarWinds and Zabbix)
• DNS (bind9, Windows DNS Services)
• Identity and authentication (Active Directory, LDAP, Azure AD)
• FortiGate firewall

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure new base operating systems
• Patch operating systems and software
• Manage the availability and performance of systems
• Design and implement methods of upgrading solutions
• Monitor availability and performance
• Access management: Create, modify, and revoke user access control lists
• Implement and maintain a set of general system controls required to provide the necessary assurance to the Governing Authority
• Monitor and manage backups
• Performance and functionality troubleshooting
• Service management
• Security compliance: baselines, anti-virus, anti-malware, access control, auditing
• Monitor, tune, and configure the VMware environment