Specialist: Systems Administrator (VMware Certified)

University of Fort Hare; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Fort Hare is seeking a Specialist: Systems Administrator (VMware Certified) on a 6 months contract. The role focuses on administering data-centre systems, virtualization, Active Directory, DNS, and patch management to ensure high uptime.

You will work within the Information Technology team to support provincial and municipal offices. Required are deep Windows Server skills, VMware certification, and experience with SCCM/SCOM.

Qualifications

• Microsoft server administration experience required.
• Experience with data-centre operations and uptime
• Knowledge of virtualization and VMware technologies.

Responsibilities

• Administer and manage data-centre systems as part of the team.
• Support servers, storage, backups, and virtualization infrastructure.
• Coordinate changes and ensure 99.999% uptime for data-centre operations.
• Provide third-level support and maintain security posture.

Skills

VMware

Active Directory

DNS

SCCM

SCOM

Backups/Archiving

Storage SAN

Patch Management

IIS

Forefront TMG/ISA

Education

MCSE/MCSD/MCSA certifications

Tools

Veritas

VMware

FOREFRONT TMG/ISA

SCCM

Job description

Specialist: Systems Administrator (VMware Certified)

4 Sep 2026 - 4 Oct 2026

Contractor

JHB003010

Information Technology

We are sourcing for a Specialist: Systems Administrator on a 6 Months contract with potential of an extension.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Administer and manage processes as part of a systems administration team and be responsible for selected processed in the data-centre.
• System administration skills required will create a balanced team combination with cross-functional skills and experience to be able to support the following systems and components in the data-centre.
  • SCCM
  • SCOM
  • VMWare
  • Active Directory and DNS
  • Back-ups and archiving
  • Veritas
  • Storage including a storage area network (SAN)
  • Symantec
  • Patch management
  • Server management (Microsoft Windows)
• Server hardware and software support.
• Provide support to provincial and municipal offices.
• Manages and monitors anti-virus products across organisation.
• Manages and monitors patch management across organisation.
• Resolves third level support problems.
• Maintains 99.999% uptime of data-centre operations;
• Server maintenance and monitoring including knowledge of SCOM.
• Monitors and maintains the load balanced internet information servers (IIS).
• Responsible for the overall infrastructure architecture, 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.
• Reviews change requests for completeness and schedule change requests.
• Monitors the successful completion of all change requests, including change planning, building, testing, and implementation to ensure that these processes follow the change schedule.

Skills Required:

Deep skills and experience in Microsoft Operating Systems and Applications with the following certifications:

• MCSE, MCSD, MCSA, etc.;
• MCITP Enterprise Administrator (Microsoft Certified IT Professional) on Windows Server;
• VMWare Certified Professional 6 - Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV)
• MCDBA will be an advantage