Operations System Administrator

SUMMARY:
We are recruiting for a Operations Systems Asministrator.

POSITION INFO:
Administer and manage processes as part of a systems administration team and be responsible for selected processed in the data-center;
2) 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 center:
a) SCCM;
b) SCOM;
c) VMWare;
d) Active Directory and DNS;
e) Back-ups and archiving;
f) Veritas;
g) Storage including a storage area network (SAN);
h) Symantec antivirus;
i) Patch management (Ivanti); and
j) Server management (Microsoft Windows)
3) Server hardware and software support;
4) Provide support to provincial and municipal offices;
5) Manages and monitors anti-virus products across organisation;
6) Manages and monitors patch management across organisation;
7) Resolves third level support problems;
8) Maintains 99.999% uptime of data-centre operations;
9) Server maintenance and monitoring including knowledge of SCOM;
10) Monitors and maintains the load balanced internet information servers (IIS);
11) Is responsible for the overall infrastructure architecture, including compliance with the company’s enterprise information architecture;
12) Knowledge of security Firewalls;
13) Knowledge and experience in Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG), formerly known as Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server);
14) Knowledge and experience in virtualization technologies, with special focus on VMware;
15) Coordinate and support team members of systems administrators;
16) Reviews change requests for completeness and analyses, prioritises, categorises, approves, and schedules change requests;
17) Monitors the successful completion of all change requests, including change planning, building, testing, and implementation to ensure that these processes follow the change schedule;
18) Reviews and evaluates the change process;
19. Manages and monitors data storage using storage area network (SAN) technologies;
20) Knowledge of Microsoft Clustering services
21) Manages the VMWare environment;
22) Schedule and perform maintenance of systems;
23) Provisioning of datacenter infrastructure;
24) Evaluates new technologies and prepares documentation.
Skills Requirements
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
It is further recommended that the candidate should have experience in Troubleshooting and problem solving technical issues Deep skills and experience in designing and implementing IT solutions