Specialist: Server Administration; Insurance

Specialist:
Server  Sector

Location:

Pretoria

Salary: R40 000 (neg) with benefits

• 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 monitor 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, Net Mon, Wireshark, etc.).
• Familiarity with networking concepts including VIPs, NAT, DNS.
• Experience with scripting tools such as XML and Power Shell.
• 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).
• Experience with virtualised storage including vendors such as Dell, HP, Nimble and Microsoft; ISCSI and Fibre channel SAN storage experience.
• MCSE Server Infrastructure.

• Grade 12
• National Diploma in Information Technology
• A+ and N+
• MCSE 2012
• Exchange 2013
• SharePoint 2013
• CCNA (Certified Cisco Network Administrator)
• ITIL V3 Foundation

• 5 years' experience as a network administrator
• 6 years' experience in an IT environment

• Strong interpersonal skills - comfortable interfacing with all levels of company
• Excellent communication in English, both verbal and written
• Well presented
• Ability to prioritize and work under pressure
• Ability to work independently
• Positive attitude, portraying a professional image at all times
• Effective time management
• Ownership of tasks and using initiative
• Drivers licence and own reliable transport essential

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