IT Technician - Johannesburg, South Africa - The Recruitment Agency South Africa (TRASA)
Description
IT Technician (Infrastructure)
1. Job Summary
- Administer and maintain the infrastructure technology across the Affinity Enterprise branches and multiple
2. Key Performance Areas
- Maintain high availability infrastructure
- Conduct research on latest networking
- Perform general administrative functions
- Infrastructure projects
3. Key Tasks (By KPA for clarity)
Maintain high availability infrastructure
- Perform daily maintenance and upgrades of the Affinity/TMS branch offices and multiple data centre
- Manage and configure the Wide Area Network (WAN)
- Manage and configure the Local Area Network (LAN)
- Optimize service improvement within the infrastructure environment
- Conduct remote infrastructure support and troubleshooting within prescribed SLAs
- Manage IP addresses
- Maintain infrastructure security (e.g. through access controls, backups and firewalls)
- Monitor and maintain biometrics and smart numbers
- Develop and assist in Data Centre consolidations
- Cloud Services, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity connectivity design
- Collaborate and communicate with IT Support teams
- Provide assistance to IT Support teams
- Capacity management
- Reporting within the infrastructure, including monitoring and alerting
- Provide vendor, management and 3rd party partners support
- Establish and maintain a good working relationship with customers and other professionals
- Oversee telecommunications (i.e., IVR's and smart numbers)
4. Other requirements - Undertake crossfunctional tasks for, and provide assistance to, Network Administrators
- Occasional nighttime driving and working
- Liaise with third party providers in a professional manner.
- Undertake UPS operational/functionality checks per prescribed checklist(s)
- Check that OEM UPS suppliers' maintenance regimes are completed per SLA
- Process "first point of contact" calls for UPS and systems issues and/or failures
- Retrieve camera footage for managers'/supervisors' review
- Monitor and maintain camera hardware and cabling
5. Physical activities
- Able to lift/carry equipment minimum of 20Kgs
- Working at heights and in confined spaces
- Sharp and jagged finishes to infrastructure and equipment
6. When the job will be performed
- Typically, standard office hours (Monday to Friday 08:00 17:00)
- Occasional after hours call outs (including weekends and public holidays)
- Scheduled standby and call out shifts
7. Where the job will be performed
- Predominantly Benoni based
- When required Affinity data centres and other Affinity sites.
8. Essential Qualifications (Have-to-Have)
- Matric
- A+ Certificate
- N+ Certificate
- Linux
9. Desirable Qualifications (Nice-to-Have)
- CCNA
- Security+
- LPIC 1
MCSE
10.
Legal or Statutory Requirements:
- None
11. Essential Experience (Have-to-Have)
- 3 years in a similar role
- Computer network experience
- Desktop support experience
- Hardware maintenance experience
- Networking Devices experience
12. Desirable Experience (Nice-to-Have)
- Experience in DHCP, DNS and SMTP
- Experience in Firewalls and VPN Solutions
- Experience in Active Directory
- Experience with networking fundamentals and protocols
- 13. Knowledge and Skills
- Excellent listening and questioning skills
- Demonstrable knowledge in Monitoring tools e.g. Observium and netflow tools
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
14. Attributes
Able to work under pressure
Attention to detail
Able to prioritise
Self-motivated
Honest, hardworking and humble
Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent
Salary:
R20 000,00 - R30 000,00 per month
Application Question(s):
- Do you have 3 years plus experience as an IT technician ( Infrastructure )?
- Do you have:
- CCNA
- Security+
MCSE
- Do you have:
- Matric
- A+ Certificate
- N+ Certificate
- Linux
- Did you read the job spec and do you feel comfortable with the requirements?
- Do you live in or close to Benoni?
- Are you available immediately or when can you start working?
Education:
- Certificate (preferred)
Experience:
- IT
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