Senior ICT Support Engineer (Linux & Security)

 

Recruiter:

MECS Africa

Job Ref:

CPT000103/RT

Date posted:

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Location:

Western Cape, South Africa

Salary:

Highly NEG Monthly


SUMMARY:
We are looking to employ a Senior ICT support Engineer (Linux and Security) for a state owned JAVA house based in Somerset West, Western Cape.

POSITION INFO:

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.

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
  • 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

 Personal Profile

  • Organized, structured and attention to detail.
  • Ability to work in a team or alone.
  • Ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
  • Self-starter.
  • Customer focused.
  • Inclination and the capability to learn new technologies
  • Adaptable (ability to quickly learn new technologies as required).
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.


 

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