Specialist: Systems Administrator

Duties and Responsibilities

• Administer and manage processes as part of a systems administration team and be responsible for selected processed in the data-centre;
• System administration skills required will create a balanced team combination with cross-functional skills and experience to be able to support the following systems and components in the data-centre:
• SCCM
• SCOM
• VMWare
• Active Directory and DNS
• Back-ups and archiving
• Veritas
• Storage including a storage area network (SAN)
• Symantec
• Patch management
• Server management (Microsoft Windows)

• Server hardware and software support;
• Provide support to provincial and municipal offices;
• Manages and monitors anti-virus products across organisation;
• Manages and monitors patch management across organisation;
• Resolves third level support problems;
• Maintains 99.999% uptime of data-centre operations;
• Server maintenance and monitoring including knowledge of SCOM;
• Monitors and maintains the load balanced internet information servers (IIS);
• Is responsible for the overall infrastructure architecture, including compliance with the Electoral Commissions enterprise information architecture;
• Knowledge of security Firewalls;
• Knowledge and experience in Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG), formerly known as Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server);
• Knowledge and experience in virtualization technologies, with special focus on VMware;
• Coordinate and support team members of systems administrators;
• Reviews change requests for completeness and analyses, prioritises, categorises, approves, and schedules change requests;
• Monitors the successful completion of all change requests, including change planning, building, testing, and implementation to ensure that these processes follow the change schedule;

Skills Required: Deep skills and experience in Microsoft Operating Systems and Applications with the following certifications:

• MCSE, MCSD, MCSA, etc.;
• MCITP Enterprise Administrator (Microsoft Certified IT Professional) on Windows Server;
• VMWare Certified Professional 6 Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV)
• MCDBA will be an advantage

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