Senior ICT Support Engineer – Linux & Security

SUMMARY:
Purpose of the Position: The successful incumbent will be part of the ICT team to service the ICT requirements of the organization as a whole as well as the ICT related needs of the respective development programmes.

POSITION INFO:

Responsibilities/Tasks:

• Report to Manager ICT and provide input and support on ICT projects where required
• Support and maintain Linux Server environments and Open Source Platforms/Tools
• Support and maintain firewall, UTM, IDS and IPS systems
• Communicate areas for improvement to management, to improve the overall effectiveness of security safeguards and controls in the organization
• Respond to emerging threats and other forms of targeted attacks, organized crime, ransomware etc.
• Implement  new and maintain existing cyber security initiatives and provide input into internal IT Security standards, and implement control and risk procedures
• Advise on the installation, configuration and upgrade servers in line with policy and system requirements.
• Suggests areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions
• Installing and configuring tools for event monitoring, capacity planning, performance monitoring, etc.
• Support ICT governance initiatives and provide input into policy/procedure development
• Constant monitoring and notifications of open source vulnerabilities in our applications through the use of Nexus Repository and Nexus Lifecycle.

Minimum Requirements

• Relevant tertiary IT qualification Sciences and/or at least matric with three (3) years’ experience as a  ICT Support Engineer (Linux & Security environment)
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Redhat and CentOS skills
• 5+ years’ experience and working knowledge of Linux.
• 5+ years hands on firewalling/security experience
• 1+ years’ experience with Fortigate UTM appliances or  Mikrotik firewall
• 1+ years’ experience with virtualization e.g. VMware, KVM
• Experience with performance optimization and capacity planning of virtualized environments.
• Advanced knowledge of networking fundamentals (all OSI layers)
• Strong hands-on experience and knowledge of LAN / VLAN / Wireless /VOIP and WAN technologies.
• Strong hands-on experience with and knowledge of firewalling and traffic management.
• Exposure to backup products such as Backup Exec and Veeam Backup and Replication.
• Exposure to SAN storage environment administration.

Skills and Knowledge that would be an advantage

• Certifications : Linux, RHCE/RHCSA
• IT Security assessment/Ethical hacking experience advantageous
• Security related certification advantageous .e.g. CEH, Security +
• Experience with managing a Microsoft Active Directory Environments advantageous
• Experience with penetration testing, cybercrime countermeasures and cyber security assessments
• Experience with maintaining a Microsoft Exchange Server Environments
• Scripting – PHP, Bash, Pearl & Python
• Monitoring solutions such as Nagios, Zenoss, Zabbix.
• Automation/deployment tools such as Ansible
• Rolling out and support of open source solutions.
• Familiarity with Cobit/ITIL/ISO 27001

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