Pretoria: Systems Engineer – Hybrid

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Systems Engineer to join our team in Pretoria on a permanent contract, with a hybrid work arrangement that includes half-week remote working and five days at the office. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the stability, integrity, and efficient operation of our in-house information systems, which support core organisational functions as well as all business operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with network staff to ensure smooth and reliable operation of software and systems for fulfilling business objectives and processes.
• Work with executive team members, decision makers, and stakeholders to define business requirements and systems goals, and to identify and resolve business systems issues.
• Conduct research on software and systems products to justify recommendations and to support purchasing efforts.
• Document procedures
• Communicate with stakeholders to identify what they want a system to accomplish.
• Develop system designs and then use modelling techniques to evaluate how they might perform in the real world.
• Deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems.
• Install, configure and test hardware, operating systems, application software and system management tools.
• Create, test and maintain backup and recovery policy and procedures.
• Test the system to ensure that it accomplishes what it is supposed to.
• Identify any problem areas.
• Existing systems must be tested regularly.
• Create reports and other documentation outlining findings and solutions.
• Provide support to users of a system.
• Maintaining, and optimizing all infrastructure components such as server hardware, storage systems, virtualization platforms, software automation.
• Implementing changes/upgrades where appropriate in line with the change management procedures in place.
• Be up to date on the latest patches and apply the correct distribution when applicable.
• Ensure security through access controls.
• Continuously ensure that security measures are in place on all servers and services.
• Test all measures to ensure a stable and secure environment.
• Monitor the system’s operations and performance, then troubleshoot problems that arise and ensure that the systems run smoothly.
• Monitor system logs for preventative maintenance.
• Ensure that the BCP strategy is monitored and tested on a continuous basis.

Requirements

• Min 5 – 10 yrs Experience as a System Engineer
• Red Hat RHCE certification is highly desirable
• Linux/Unix Kernel experience
• Knowledge of web components such as Apache and Tomcat is essential
• High Availability / Clustering technologies are highly desirable
• Storage technologies (like SAN, multipathing, iSCSI, LVM)
• Networking concepts and protocols LDAP, Kerberos, Samba, Active Directory
• Container technologies such as Docker/Kubernetes are highly desirable
• Working knowledge of load-balancing devices is highly desirable.
• Cloud certification (Azure / AWS) will be an advantage
• VMware vRealize Operations certification will be an advantage.

Qualifications

No formal education or certifications mentioned in the original job description.