Server and Storage Specialist at South African Reserve Bank

Job description

Brief description

The main purpose of the position is to plan, design, implement, configure and provide defined levels (lines) of support for all server and storage infrastructures ensuring sufficient capacity and performance to meet business demand and ensure availability as per approved Service Standards.

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Define own work plan and deliverables with guidance from the Team Lead: Servers and Storage, and prioritise delivery of own outputs against the agreed work plan.
• Design, test and implement scalable, redundant, server and storage infrastructure solutions and related technologies (HO and AS) according to documented business requirements and aligned with industry best practise standards.
• Provide support on deployed server and storage infrastructure.
• Provide technical server and storage expertise as part of ICT infrastructure projects and participate in other departmental/divisional projects in order to contribute towards business objectives.
• Identify and implement opportunities for integration, consolidation and enhancements to ensure cost-effective and optimal use of server and storage resources and technology.
• Research, design and evaluate alternative server and storage architectures and related technologies in relation to the Bank’s business needs (POC and Technical Assessments) and aligned with the BSTD strategy, vision and roadmap.
• Create and maintain technical server and storage topology diagrams. (SARB Group footprint) and provide structured documentation and procedures to the Production Support Section on solution hand-over - where relevant.
• Keep abreast of new and changing server and storage architectures and technologies, and liaise with vendors for purposes of product and technology review, coordinating vendor presentations where relevant.
• Provide input into the development of server and storage related Policies and Standards in accordance with Corporate Governance standards including the Bank’s policies, procedures and other legislative requirements.
• Act on management requests to address or mitigate risks in the server and storage environment as identified by the internal or external auditors and other governance related assessments (including sanctioned penetration tests).
• Enhance disaster/business continuity procedures and assist in exercising those procedures

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must have:

• A minimum of a B degree / Advanced Diploma in ICT OR a combination of IT training (including applicable industry certification(s)) and job related experience.
• A minimum of 6-8 years of job-related experience

Job-related knowledge should include:

• Expert knowledge on the design, deployment and maintenance of IBM AIX and Power Server technologies.
• AIX Performance Analysis;
• AIX Security feature implementation;
• Korn and Bash Shell Programming;
• IBM PowerVM;
• IBM Power 7/8 technologies;
• Advanced NIM use for system recovery, installation and migration.
• Power Systems for AIX LPAR configuration, planning and problem determination;
• PowerHA planning, Implementation and Administration;
• IBM HMC implementation, administration and support;
• Live Partition Mobility, CPU sharing and Memory expansion.
• Optional job-related knowledge that will provide an added advantage:
• Knowledge on the design, deployment and maintenance of IBM Storage technologies.
• IBM XIV;
• IBM V7000/V5000;
• IBM SAN (Brocade);
• IBM Spectrum Scale;
• IBM XIV data protection and business continuity.
• Lenovo server hardware and related technologies
• xClarity;
• Flex and rack mount Systems
• VMWare Virtualisation technologies.
• vSphere;
• vCenter Server;
• vSAN;
• Site Recovery Manager;
• Nutanix;
• VMWare Horizon 7.
• Red Hat and Suse Linux
• IBM Bigfix lifecycle Management.
• Data backup and recovery
• IBM Spectrum Protect;
• Veeam Backup and Replication;
• IBM TS4200 Tape Library.