IT Site Engineer - Soweto at Clinix Health Group (Pty) Ltd

Job Summary:

To take responsibility for designing, organizing, modifying, installing and supporting the company’s computer systems and designing and installing LANs, WANSs, internet and intranet systems, and network segments.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience:

• Grade 12.
• Certificate in MCSE.
• Degree in Information Sciences advantageous.
• 2 years’ experience working in a similar environment.

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
• Contribute to and maintain system standards.
• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks.
• Identify approaches that leverage resources and provide economies of scale.
• Install and support LANs, WANs, network segments and internet and intranet systems.
• Install and maintain network hardware and software.
• Monitor networks to ensure security and availability to specific users.
• Evaluate and modify system’s performance and identify user needs.
• Determine network and system requirements.
• Maintain integrity of the network, server deployment, and security.
• Ensure network connectivity throughout the company's LAN/WAN infrastructure is on par with technical considerations.
• Design and deploy networks and perform network address assignments.
• Assign routing protocols and routing table configuration.
• Assign configuration of authentication and authorization of directory services.
• Maintain network facilities in individual machines, such as drivers and settings of personal computers as well as printers.
• Maintain network servers such as file servers, VPN gateways and intrusion detection systems.
• Administer servers, desktop computers, printers, routers, switches, firewalls, phones, personal digital assistants, smartphones, software deployment, security updates and patches.
• Inform users of system failure and take measures to solve problems timeously.
• Provide support per request from various stakeholders and investigate and troubleshoot issues.
• Repair and recover from hardware or software failures and coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
• Maintain operational configuration, or other procedures.
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.