IT Systems Administrator

Truworths · Cape Town, Western Cape

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  • Truworths is looking for a skilled and experienced IT Systems Administrator who thrives on solving technical challenges, optimising infrastructure performance, and ensuring critical business systems operate seamlessly.
  • In this role, you will be responsible for the administration, monitoring, support, maintenance, and continuous improvement of enterprise systems and infrastructure services. This position requires a technically proficient professional with experience supporting workload automation platforms, SQL Server environments, and enterprise infrastructure within a high-availability production environment. The successful candidate will work closely with infrastructure, application support, database administration, service management, and vendor teams to ensure reliable service delivery and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

  • Administering, monitoring, and maintaining enterprise infrastructure and business-critical systems.
  • Providing operational support for Control-M workload automation, including job scheduling, workflow management, troubleshooting, and batch processing optimisation.
  • Provide operational support for Microsoft SQL Server environments in conjunction with Database Administrators DBAs and application teams.
  • Proactively monitoring system performance, availability, capacity, and service health to ensure operational stability and compliance with service levels.
  • Investigating and resolving system, application, scheduling, and database incidents, performing root cause analysis and implementing preventive measures.
  • Collaborating with infrastructure, application support, database administration, and vendor teams to deliver reliable and secure services.
  • Participating in incident, problem, change, and release management processes, ensuring adherence to governance and operational standards.
  • Maintaining operational documentation, support procedures, disaster recovery plans, and knowledge articles.
  • Driving continuous improvement through automation, process optimisation, and proactive service enhancement initiatives.
  • Participating in after-hours support and on-call rotations to ensure the availability of critical business systems.

Qualifications and Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline OR equivalent practical experience in systems administration, infrastructure operations, or enterprise support environments.
  • 3–5 years of relevant experience in IT operations, systems administration, production support, or infrastructure support.
  • Demonstrated experience in at least two of the following areas:
  • Workload scheduling and automation
  • SQL/database support
  • Windows, Linux, and Unix experience
  • Production support
  • Enterprise systems monitoring

Competencies

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent troubleshooting capability.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to perform under pressure in business-critical environments.
  • Strong organizational, prioritization, and time-management skills.
  • Detail-oriented with a proactive operational mindset.
  • Collaborative team player capable of working across technical and business teams.
  • Commitment to continuous improvement and service excellence.

Deadline:10th August,2026

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