Specialist: Vas Support at Vodacom

The role of the Specialist: Vas Support is to in this role, responsible for all support, maintenance, patching, upgrading and installation of the RHEV/RHEL and SAN Storage environments. Provisioning and maintenance of hypervisors and virtual machines will also form part of the duties. The Specialist must also have workable knowledge of a SAN storage environment used by the VM’s. Mounting storage for VM’s will form part of the purpose of the role. Any Mobile Telecoms (GSM/SI P) and VAS knowledge and background will be advantageous.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership

• Provide high level support and uptime
• Maintain systems & systems availability
• Managed Change Management Procedures
• Ensure system security
• Managed system performance
• Managed hypervisor, VM and storage provisioning
   

Core Competencies, Knowledge And Experience

• Red Hat Linux
• RHEV & RHEL
• Hitachi (or other) SAN Storage administration knowledge
• GSM and Telecommunication knowledge will be BENE FICIAL
• TCP/IP knowledge
• Scripting/coding in any of the following will be beneficial: Bash, C, PHP, Perl etc

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent Experience
• 4 – 8 year experience on Linux/Unix based systems on a high level, preferably in a Cloud/hypervisor/VM environment
• Experience on the Microsoft Office package i.e. MS Word, MS Excel and MS Power Point is essential
• Any experience on VAS Messaging platforms (Voicemail, SMS, MMS) will be beneficial.
• GSM experience will serve as a major advantage