IT Infrastructure Systems Administrators X10

Description

Managed Talent Solutions, a division within Datacentrix, is looking for X10 IT Infrastructure Systems Administrators for one of their clients based in Centurion. This is a month contract. The Systems Administrators will be required to do maintenance, management, and support of the company's data centre infrastructure.

Qualifications and Skills Required:

• Matric plus Diploma in Information Technology or related field
• Certifications: MCSA, MCSE or MCSD
• Certification: MCITP Enterprise Administrator (Microsoft Certified IT Professional) on Windows Server
• Certification: VMWare Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV)
• Certification: MCDBA
• Software Patch management, uptime monitoring, and top-tier support
• Extensive knowledge and experience in virtualization technologies (VMWare and Hyper-V)
• Networking skills, configuration of switches, IP ranges, and VLANs (VPN, Cisco routers, Satellite networks, Switches, VLANs, VOIP, etc.)
• Skills and experience in data-center hardware and software support and installation
• Good knowledge of backup solutions (e.g. Veritas NetBackup, Enterprise Vault, etc.)

Responsibilities:

• Administer and manage processes as part of a systems administration team and be responsible for selected processes in the data-center
• System administration skills required will create a balanced team combination with cross-functional skills and experience to support the following systems and components in the data-center:
• SCCM
• SCOM
• VMWare
• Active Directory and DNS
• Back-ups and archiving
• Veritas
• Storage including a storage area network (SAN)
• Symantec antivirus
• Patch management (Ivanti)
• Server management (Microsoft Windows)
• Server hardware and software support
• Provide support to provincial and municipal offices
• Manage and monitor anti-virus products across the organization
• Manage and monitor patch management across the organization
• Resolve third-level support problems
• Maintain 99.999% uptime of data-center operations
• Server maintenance and monitoring including knowledge of SCOM
• Monitor and maintain the load-balanced internet information servers (IIS)
• Responsible for the overall infrastructure architecture, including compliance with the company’s enterprise information architecture
• Knowledge of security Firewalls
• Knowledge and experience in Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG), formerly known as Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server)
• Knowledge and experience in virtualization technologies, with special focus on VMware
• Coordinate and support team members of systems administrators
• Review change requests for completeness and analyze, prioritize, categorize, approve, and schedule change requests
• Monitor the successful completion of all change requests, including change planning, building, testing, and implementation to ensure that these processes follow the change schedule
• Review and evaluate the change process
• Manage and monitor data storage using storage area network (SAN) technologies
• Knowledge of Microsoft Clustering services
• Manage the VMWare environment
• Schedule and perform maintenance of systems
• Provisioning of datacenter infrastructure
• Evaluate new technologies and prepare documentation

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