South Africa: Specialist: Server Administration (Insurance) posted by AtripleA recruitment & temps

About the Role

Our Client in the Insurance sector is seeking a Specialist: Server Administration to join their team in Pretoria East. The ideal candidate will have the capability and understanding of applications such as VMWare 6 and Microsoft Server 2012 environments, to recommend and utilize appropriate toolsets based on business requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Install new/rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, storage.
• Design and support systems that provide easy and natural end-user access.
• Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created.
• Support production systems as required by optimizing performance, resolving production problems, and providing timely follow-up on reported problems.
• Repair and recover from hardware, software or networking failures.
• Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
• Resolve customer issues including complex technical scenarios.
• Establish performance standards and proactively monitors performance.
• Create and maintain system documentation.
• Establish IT policies, standards, practices and security measures to ensure effective and consistent information processing operations and to safeguard information resources.
• Work with existing systems to track and manage requests and issues.
• Familiarity with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Security, OS Internal concepts, IIS Administration experience.
• Experience with VMWare configuration and administration.
• Experience with Microsoft Management tools (SCOM, SCCM, SCSM, MS Orchestrator).
• Experience with Unified Messaging (MS Exchange 2016 and Lync/Skype for Business).
• Familiarity with networking tools (ping, tracert, tracemon, NetMon, wire shark, etc.).
• Familiarity with networking concepts including VIPs, NAT, DNS.
• Experience with scripting tools such as XML and PowerShell.
• Experience working with and maintaining MS SQL Server, including performance tuning.
• Server clustering experience.
• Experience with data reconciliation and migration between data environments (e.g. dev, test, staging, prod, etc).
• Experience with Virtualized storage including vendors like Dell, HP, Nimble and Microsoft. ISCSI and Fiber channel SAN – storage experience.
• MCSE Server Infrastructure.

Requirements

• Grade 12
• National Diploma in Information Technology
• A+ and N+
• MCSE 2012
• Exchange 2013
• Sharepoint 2013
• CCNA (Certified Cisco Network Administrator)
• ITIL V3 Foundation
• Drivers licence and own reliable transport essential
• 5 years’ experience as a network administrator
• 6 years’ experience in an IT environment

Qualifications

No qualifications mentioned.

Salary & Benefits

R40 000 – R43 000 ctc per month