Systems Administrator

Overview

Roles and Responsibilities

This role focuses on proactive management and maintenance of our offices IT infrastructure, ensuring that all systems, servers, and hardware remain fully operational at all times. It emphasizes preventative action, regularly monitoring system health, conducting maintenance, and identifying potential failures before they impact operations. This role is strictly on-site and involves hands-on IT infrastructure tasks with no remote or phone-based support. The goal is system stability : minimize downtime, ensure optimal performance of all IT assets, and maintain business continuity in our security monitoring command center. While remote network engineers manage firewalls, switches, and network configurations, this System Administrator will primarily focus on managing the IT environment locally, ensuring PCs, workstations, servers, and IT hardware are fully functional at all times. Routine maintenance, software updates, and system optimizations are performed to prevent performance issues and technical failures. This is not an end-user IT support role; troubleshooting may be required, but the main responsibility is actively managing and maintaining IT infrastructure rather than responding to user requests. Strong hardware and software troubleshooting skills are required to address potential failures before they become major issues.

Ideal Candidate Profile :

• Someone with a proactive approach to IT management, focusing on preventative maintenance, system optimization, and reliability.
• A professional with hands-on IT / system administration experience in an IT-intensive environment.
• Strong understanding of Windows operating systems, IT security best practices, and hardware diagnostics.
• A self-sufficient, detail-oriented, and problem-solving individual who can work independently while collaborating with our remote IT team as needed.
• Linux operating system experience is not critical for our current needs. The focus is IT system administration and management, and any good IT person would have more than sufficient knowledge about operating systems.

Note : This role is to provide 24-hour support and maintenance for a Control Room in Rivonia with nontraditional working hours.

Employment Details

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