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IT Infrastructure Specialist – Johannesburg
An IT Infrastructure Specialist position is available in Midrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
A leading South African manufacturer and marketer of Traditional Sorghum Beer and alcoholic beverages is looking for an IT Specialist: Infrastructure to join their successful team.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Reporting to IT Operations Manager, the role will be responsible for planning, implementing, overseeing, and maintaining server and network infrastructures and projects.
The successful incumbent will collaborate with the IT support, collaborations and applications teams during design, development, and business as usual phases to provide guidance, interpretation, engineering expertise and support.
Top Accountabilities:
- Design: Ensure that services such as Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange are designed to best practice standards for resilience and availability to ensure the highest SLAs are maintained
- Availability: Ensure that uptime SLAs are met every month for systems that you are responsible for by managing and resolving issues logs; performing scheduled maintenance to minimise disruption
- Performance: Ensure that performance SLAs are met every month for systems that you are responsible for by monitoring system performance, capacity, and growth; suggesting and implementing performance improvements and hardware/software refreshes.
- Information Security: Ensure that the network and systems are internally and externally secure by following existing policies and procedures and documenting for audit purposes as required; implementing security controls and remediations; completing risk assessments and build guides for new and existing systems.
- Business Continuity: Ensure that data is secure and backed up by ensuring that regular backups and made and are tested; participating in yearly BCP & DR tests; ensuring that any new build is in line with company requirements and departmental policy for resilience and availability; documenting resilience and backup plans for all new builds.
- Training: Develop professional and technical knowledge and skills. Provide technical advice and mentoring within the team and organization
- Project Work: Implement new projects to meet project timelines and deadlines
- Budget: Recommend changes to the manager that could reduce costs in your areas of responsibility
Experience & Qualifications:
Qualifications:
- Grade 12
- Diploma/BTech/BSc/ qualification in Information Technology or any IT-related tertiary qualification
International certifications are an advantage (MCSE, A+, N+, CCNA, Security+, ITIL, Server+, etc.) - Driver’s license
Experience:
- 3-5 years proven post qualification experience working with IT infrastructure
- 2 years’ experience in managing networks and communication systems: WAN, LAN, Wi-Fi, VOIP
- 2 years’ experience managing and administering Microsoft Windows servers
- 2 years’ experience managing and working on Azure/AWS cloud platforms
- 2 years’ experience in managing Active Directory, DHCP, DNS and Group policies
- 2 years’ experience in the administration of backup solutions
- Experience of working within tight SLAs/OLAs and deadlines
- Previous experience of patch management solutions in an enterprise environment
- Experience with MECM (Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager) is preferred
- Managing server virtualisation technologies like VMWare Server/ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V/Virtual
Server
Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Customer-orientated
- Oral and written communication skills
- Learning skills
- Problem analysis
- Problem-solving
- Adaptability
- Team interaction
- Planning and organising
- Attention to detail
- Solution oriented
- Consistently deliver great performance
- Ability to work effectively under pressure
- Ability to work independently
- Effective judgement and demonstrated ability to take initiative when required
- Pro-active problem-solving approach
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