System Engineer

Capitec Bank; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading South African bank is seeking a Systems Engineer in Stellenbosch to engineer, implement, and support server and storage products. The ideal candidate has at least 7 years of IT experience, including system administration and mentoring capabilities. This role emphasizes performance optimization and collaboration with cross-functional teams. Join us to make a difference in our operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience as a Systems Engineer or similar role.
• Strong background in system administration and network management.
• Experience with server/storage equipment and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, implement, maintain, and support server and storage products.
• Troubleshoot issues and optimize performance.
• Initiate deliver product improvements based on customer needs.

Skills

Attention to Detail

Commercial Thinking Skills

Decision making skills

Influencing Skills

Leadership Skills

Problem solving skills

Education

Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational

A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology

Tools

Windows/Linux Server & storage systems administration

Performance monitoring and optimization tools

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Purpose Statement

• To engineer, implement, maintain and support the Capitec server and storage product offering and environment, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the reliability, security, and performance of systems and networks. The Systems Engineer is responsible for troubleshooting issues, optimizing performance, and implementing new technologies to support business operations and acts as escalation for level 2 engineers on at least 1 technology and acts as escalation for level 1 engineers on multiple technologies.
• Initiate, plan and deliver product improvements based on customer needs. Coaching and mentoring of level 2 system engineers in the team.
• Liaise with vendors to maintain relationships and level of service.

Education (Minimum)

• Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational

Education (Ideal or Preferred)

• A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology

Knowledge and Experience

Experience:

• 7+ years’ experience as a Systems Engineer or similar role, with a strong background in system administration, network management, server/storage engineering and administration and IT operational support capacity
• Experience with server/storage equipment and technologies.
• Mentoring and coaching experience.
• System planning and design experience.
• Experience with performance monitoring and optimization tools, troubleshooting methodologies, and incident management.

Knowledge:

• Expert knowledge of networks, security, virtualization, hardware, cloud and systems development processes.
• (Windows/Linux) Server & storage systems administration
• Business continuity
• IT Operations
• Sound understanding of automation and devops practices
  

Skills

• Attention to Detail
• Commercial Thinking Skills
• Decision making skills
• Influencing Skills
• Leadership Skills
• Problem solving skills

Additional Information

• Clear criminal and credit record

Capitec is committed to diversity, applications to this position will strictly be considered in support of our employment equity goals.