Systems Administrator - Cape Town, South Africa - ESET

ESET

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Cape Town, South Africa

2 weeks ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Description

The Company:4D Innovations Group (Pty) Ltd t/a
ESET Southern Africa

Role Name:
Systems Administrator

Department:
IT

Location:
Belmont Square, Rondebosch, Cape Town

Type of Position:
Full-time

Hours of work:
Monday - Friday, 08:30 to 17:00

Role summary:

Educational qualifications:

Any completed tertiary education would be beneficial:

BSc in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related discipline;
Professional certification (e.g. Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA))

Requirements:

Proven 5 years of experience as a System Administrator, Network Administrator or similar role
Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration.
Working knowledge of administrating of Type 1 Hypervisors and related virtualization
Strong knowledge of networks (LAN, WAN, NAT, VLANS, Tunnels)
Experience using RADIUS AAA.
Experience using databases.
Ability to use a wide variety of opensource technologies and cloud services (experience with AWS is required).
A working understanding of code and scripting languages (bash, PowerShell, Python, Perl, etc).
Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in a secure, alwaysup, alwaysavailable service.
Knowledge of system security (e.g. intrusion detection systems) and data backup/recovery
Resourcefulness and problemsolving aptitude, and ability to selfupskill
Excellent communication skills
Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) beneficial
Knowledge of AWS beneficial

Daily Responsibilities:

Career Path Core competencies

Communication

Listens to others and accepts input from team members.
Clearly articulate ideas and thoughts verbally.
Accurately prepare written business correspondence that is coherent, grammatically correct, effective and professional.
Ability to formulate & present reports pertaining to all duties and responsibilities.

General Objectives for position

Install new or rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
Contribute to and maintain system standards.
Research, recommend and develop innovative, automated approaches for system administration tasks.
Research and recommend best practices to mitigate all technical risk areas to the business (including but not limited to appropriate DR and BC plans, systems and procedures).
Always ensure practical but highest levels of technical security for the group.
Actively identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.
Actively look for more costeffective tech options that do not compromise on quality or security.

Group-Partner Relationship Management

Maintain relationships with Suppliers: Building maintenance, Generator maintenance, software/hardware providers, Internet providers, Telephone provider, cloud service providers

Operations and Support

Maintain shared physical Group facilities: Network, and when necessary, Meeting Rooms and Powerdistribution.
Perform regular backup operations and implement appropriate processes for data protection, disaster recovery, and failover procedures
Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary.
Assist, when necessary, with creating, changing, and deleting user accounts per operational requirements.
Assist, when necessary, with administering thirdparty cloud services, maintaining user access and permissions.
Provide Tier III (OR VIP) support per request from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
Troubleshoot hardware and software errors by running diagnostics, documenting problems and resolutions, prioritizing problems, and assessing impact of issues
Configure outbound and inbound firewall rules.
Configure switches, APs, and VLANs for internal and external routing.
Develop expertise to train colleagues on new technologies
Create and/or maintain technical documentation, manuals and IT policies
Develop and integrate automation processes.

Maintenance

Maintain operational, configuration, or other procedures.
Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
Perform ongoing performance tuning, and resource optimisation as required.
Assist with documentation and technical specifications for planning and implementing new or upgrades of IT infrastructure.
Maintain server room equipment and related items.

Professional Qualities

Teamwork