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