IT Infrastructure Systems Administrators X10 at Datacentrix

Managed Talent Solutions a division within Datacentrix is looking for X10 IT Infrastructure Systems Administrators for one of their client 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 on virtualization technologies (VMWare and HypeV)
• 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 Nedbackup, Enterprise Vault, etc.)

Responsibilities:

• Administer and manage processes as part of a systems administration team and be responsible for selected processed in the data-center
• System administration skills required will create a balanced team combination with cross-functional skills and experience to be able 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;
• Manages and monitors anti-virus products across organisation;
• Manages and monitors patch management across organisation;
• Resolves third level support problems;
• Maintains 99.999% uptime of data-centre operations;
• Server maintenance and monitoring including knowledge of SCOM;
• Monitors and maintains the load balanced internet information servers (IIS);
• Is 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;
• Reviews change requests for completeness and analyses, prioritises, categorises, approves, and schedules change requests;
• Monitors the successful completion of all change requests, including change planning, building, testing, and implementation to ensure that these processes follow the change schedule;
• Reviews and evaluates the change process;
• Manages and monitors data storage using storage area network (SAN) technologies;
• Knowledge of Microsoft Clustering services
• Manages the VMWare environment;
• Schedule and perform maintenance of systems;
• Provisioning of datacenter infrastructure;
• Evaluates new technologies and prepares documentation