Systems Engineer (INFRA / OS)

Systems Engineer (Infra / OS)

Location: Midrand

Contract duration: 12 month

Description:

• This is a very technical, hands-on opportunity and the employee will be part of the HUB Infrastructure/OS Delivery team responsible for delivering advanced technical projects as part of a Paas (Platform as a Service) solution.
• Services include technologies related to infrastructure Server and FC Storage hardware, Network and FC switches, Network Load Balancers, Operating Systems, Virtualization and Backup and Recovery strategies.

Main Responsibilities

• The Systems Engineer will be required to compile granular deployment plans containing step by step technical detail for change implementations.
• Successful implementation of the self-compiled or alternate engineer compiled deployment plans.
• The applicant will become involved in delivery & support of cutting-edge projects within the telecommunications industry and will assist within the team with the analysis and design of new and enhanced rollouts of the latest PaaS / Cloud delivery solutions.
• Implementation and Maintenance of existing and new monitoring and alerting tools to ensure our 24/7 standby personnel are informed of any alerts generated on customer sites.
• The role also requires the applicant to become part of the 24/7 standby roster which is comprised of both the delivery and ops teams.

KPIS

• Projects - Ensuring project timelines are met
• Change control
• Ensuring deployment plans are submitted on time
• Ensuring deployment plan implementation is completed correctly and on time
• Task Tracking & SLA fulfilment
• Maintain and resolve Service Desk tickets as per the designated priority assigned
• Time logging
• Ensuring all work log detail and time spent reflects correctly using Remedy, Jira, ManageEngine Service Desk

Qualifications and Experience

• Senior Certificate
• Relevant IT Qualifications (Diploma or Degree)
• Advanced *NIX (Linux / Unix) certification or relevant experience
• *NIX scripting experience advantageous (Bash / Perl / Python )
• Advanced VMWare VCP certification or relevant experience
• Extensive experience within FC/SAN technologies (HP MSA / 3PAR / Brocade)
• f5 Big-IP LTM certification or relevant experience
• Fortigate firewall certification or relevant experience
• HP network switch experience
• Knowledge of backup technologies advantageous (Symantec / EMC / HP
• Knowledge of Oracle ASM / RDBMS advantageous
• Oracle EXADATA certification or relevant experience

Key competencies and skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Creative approach to problem solving
• Exposure to/understanding of GSM technologies