Manager: Linux - Johannesburg, South Africa - Affirmative Portfolios

Affirmative Portfolios
Affirmative Portfolios
Verified Company
Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Thabo Mthembu

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

beBee Recruiter
Description

Information Technology

JHB North
***:
Manager:
Linux / Unix Systems - Sandringham - R pa - Permanent position

Key Job Responsibilities:


  • To manage the LINUX/UNIX team in order to ensure the smooth operation, installation, support and maintenance of LINUX/UNIX systems including related hardware.
  • To train and manage staff to ensure that they have the skills required by the organization/department and are able to achieve their performance objectives
  • To manage the storage are network administration, management of backup and data recovery environments.
  • To liaise with customers and related departments to resolve service related queries and provide advice in order to ensure effective service delivery
  • To manage third party suppliers and service level agreements in order to ensure costeffective delivery of services.
  • To contribute to the IT strategy and budget development to ensure that it is line with the business need
  • To contribute to the development of IT policies and develops and implements SOP's accordingly in order to ensure compliance with policy and regulations
  • To manage the LINUX/UNIX environment and patches in order to ensure security, reliability, capacity and availability of systems for end users.
  • To produce system usage statistics and highlight areas of concern.
  • To maintain the system documentation in order to ensure business continuity and continuous operations
  • To manage internal IT projects in accordance with business needs in order to ensure effective service delivery

Minimum requirements:


  • National Diploma in IT (NQF Level 6)
  • Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)/ Red Hat Certified Administrator (RHCA)
  • 8 years relevant experience with 5 years in a supervisory/ project management or team lead capacity
  • Storage Area Network Certification (desirable)
  • VMware certified professional (desirable)
  • Oracle Linux certification (desirable)
  • Veeam certified Engineer (desirable)
  • Valid driver's license

Key Competencies:


  • Experience with fibre channelbased storage (HP3par or similar)
  • Solaris LDOM's/ Solaris Zones Experience provisioning and configuring Solaris cirtual servers using logical domains and zones.
  • Hands on cluster experience, preferable with Veritas Cluster Suite or Veritas Infoscale, Linux based cluster
  • Project management
  • Scripting skills, the most important being KORN, BASH and PERL
  • Knowledge of VMWare based systems and related virtualization tools.
  • Knowledge HPBlade server environment
  • Knowledge with software and hardware RAID, logical Volume Manager
  • Knowledge of networks and routing, including security tools such as firewalls and intrusion detection
  • Trouble shoot skills of performancebased problems quickly and effectively on all Unix platforms and have working knowledge of "nix based performance tools
  • Server hardening techniques including IPtables, Firewalls, SElinux and SSH.
  • Knowledge of databases (Oracle/ MySQL/ DB2 or similar) (desirable)
  • Oracle Secure Backup experience (desirable)
  • Understanding DR processes
  • Scripting skills, the most important being KORN, BASH and PERL
  • Knowledge of VMWare based systems and related virtualization.
More jobs from Affirmative Portfolios
See all jobs of Affirmative Portfolios