Specialist: Server Administration - Menlyn at Assupol

• The Server Administrator will be responsible for the design, provision, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure.
• Install new/rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, storage.
• Designing and supporting systems that provide easy and natural end-user access.
• Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media.
• Support production systems as required by optimizing performance, resolving production problems, and providing timely follow-up on reported problems and incidents.
• Repair and recover from hardware or software failures.
• Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
• Resolving customer issues including complex technical scenarios.
• Establish performance standards and proactively monitors performance.
• Creating and maintaining system documentation.
• Establish IT policies, standards, practices and security measures to ensure effective and consistent information processing operations and to safeguard information resources.
• Working with existing systems to track and manage requests and issues.
• Familiarity with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Security, OS Internal concepts, IIS
• Administration experience.
• Experience with VMWare configuration and administration.
• Experience with Unified Messaging (MS Exchange 2019 and Exchange Online)
• Familiarity with networking tools (ping, tracert, tracemon, NetMon, wire shark, etc.).
• Experience with scripting tools such as XML and PowerShell.
• Experience working with and maintaining MS SQL Server, including performance tuning.
• Server clustering experience.
• Experience with data reconciliation and migration between data environments (e.g. dev, test, staging, prod, etc).
• Experience with Virtualized storage including vendors like Dell, HP, Pure and Microsoft. ISCSI and Fiber channel SAN - storage experience.
• Experience with Azure cloud and Office 365.  Deployments of Azure resources, policies and security.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Matric
• National Diploma/Degree in Information Technology
• Office 365
• MCSE 2016
• Exchange 2016 or 2019
• Sharepoint 2016 or 2019
• Azure Administrator
• ITIL V3 Foundation

Experience

• 5 years’ experience as a server administrator
• 6 years’ experience in an IT environment
• Driver’s licence and own reliable transport essential