Security Specialist - Onsite Bryanston

Role: Security Specialist

Type: Permanent

Working Environment: Onsite

Location: Bryanston, Johannesburg

Skills and Competencies required

• LPIC (Essential)
• Fortinet NSE 6 (preferable)
• CCSA/CCSE

Technical requirements of the role

• Linux server administration
• Administration and Support of Antivirus Solution (Symantec Endpoint)
• Samba management, configuration and troubleshooting
• Configuration of Samba and Windows integration
• Troubleshooting Windows server AD and Linux server trust relationship
• Determine and configure hardware settings
• File management: creation, permissions and removal
• Troubleshooting Kernel faults and bugs
• Installing kernel patches
• Custom configuration or solutions on client request
• Advanced Disk and RAID management and troubleshooting
• Troubleshooting system resource usage
• Server Recovery
• Setup and installation of new system (Proxmox)
• QC of newly setup servers (Proxmox)

• General technical support
• Provide full hardware level support on Servers
• Troubleshooting of Server failures and escalation to server team as required
• Creation of users on both Windows and Linux platforms
• Troubleshooting of any active Linux Service
• Configuring VPN Server
• Restoring of Backups for clients.
• Monitor health of Server whenever connected
• Understanding and designing of scripts for automation of tasks

• Networking & connectivity
  • Configuration of routers
  • Configuration of wireless access points with VLANs
  • Configuration of managed switches
  • Troubleshooting of physical network failures
  • Troubleshooting of network Routing and Mail flow
  • Configuration of VLANs on Linux servers
  • Troubleshoot failover faults
  • Troubleshoot connectivity faults
  • Troubleshooting and tracing network faults
  • Configuring firewall rules
  • Configuration of network and routing scripts
  • Configuration of failover scripts

Other administrative requirements of the role

• Ticket management
• Tickets are to be updated daily with work notes or discussions with the client
• Time spend to be recorded accurately on every ticket
• Billing notes to be done accurately, and professionally
• Ensuring that all communication is checked to spelling and grammar mistakes
• Ensuring tickets are addressed before the specified time to ensure that tickets dont exceed the SLA threshold and breaches occur
• Configuration files to be updated with every change on the clients network and saved within the company record on ConnectWise