Senior Network Administrator - Pretoria, South Africa - IntelliStaff

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Verified Company
Pretoria, South Africa

2 weeks ago

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Overview of the position|;

  • Establishes network specifications by conferring with users; analysing workflow, access, information, and security requirements
  • Day to day administration of Cisco, Fortinet firewalls, switches and routers, including interface configuration and routing protocols
  • Evaluating network performance issues including availability, utilization, throughput, and latency
  • Planning and executing the selection, installation, configuration, and testing of equipment; defining network policies and procedures
  • Establishing connections and updating firewall access list
  • Maintains network performance by performing network monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting network problems; escalating problems to vendor
  • Upgrades network by conferring with vendors; developing, testing, evaluating and installing enhancements
  • Maintains organisation data flow and network diagrams
  • Assists with and oversees the management of user access and maintaining related records
  • Secures network by developing network access, monitoring, control, and evaluation, maintaining documentation
  • Assists with and oversees the Data Centre operations and environment
  • Providing technical support to employees and 3dr Partys
  • Assists in overseeing the organisation and operation of the Network Operations Centre (e.g. monitoring temperature organising materials, ensuring availability of materials, etc.) for the purpose of ensuring efficient operations
  • Manages project migrations for hardware/software systems for the purpose of ensuring efficient operations
  • Researches trends, products, equipment, tests, etc. for the purpose of recommending procedures and/or purchases

Minimum Education

  • Matric or equivalent qualification recognised by the Department of Higher Education & Training
  • National diploma or degree in relevant field will be an advantage
  • Any network qualification (i.e. CCNA, CCNP, Arista ACE, Fotinet) would be an advantage

Knowledge, skills and experience

  • Ability to perform duties under tight deadlines
  • Strong knowledge and experience of Cisco firewall, router and switch technologies
  • Strong knowledge and experience of Fortinet firewall technologies
  • Strong knowledge and experience of Arista switch technologies
  • Strong knowledge of Windows operating system
  • Knowledge of Windows interoperability with LAN.
  • Knowledge of Security patch maintenance process on LAN environments
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills
  • Handson approach
  • Ability to manage SLAs with service providers
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