Specialist: Systems Administrator (VMware Certifie

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). • Responsible for the overall infrastructure architecture, 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 schedule 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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