Specialist: Systems Administrator (VMware Certified)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Administer and manage processes as part of a systems administration team and be responsible for selected processed in the data-centre.
• System administration skills required will create a balanced team combination with cross-functional skills and experience to be able to support the following systems and components in the data-centre.
• SCCM
• SCOM
• VMWare
• Active Directory and DNS
• Back-ups and archiving
• Veritas
• Storage including a storage area network (SAN)
• Symantec
• Patch management
• Server management (Microsoft Windows)
• Server hardware and software support.
• Provide support to provincial and municipal offices.
• Manages and monitors anti-virus products across organisation.
• Manages and monitors patch management across organisation.
• Resolves third level support problems.
• Maintains 99.999% uptime of data-centre operations;
• Server maintenance and monitoring including knowledge of SCOM.
• Monitors and maintains the load balanced internet information servers (IIS).
• Responsible for the overall infrastructure architecture,  enterprise information architecture.
• Knowledge of security Firewalls.
• Knowledge and experience in Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG), formerly known as Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server).
• Knowledge and experience in virtualization technologies, with special focus on VMware.
• Coordinate and support team members of systems administrators.
• Reviews change requests for completeness and schedule change requests.
• Monitors the successful completion of all change requests, including change planning, building, testing, and implementation to ensure that these processes follow the change schedule.

Skills Required:

Deep skills and experience in Microsoft Operating Systems and Applications with the following certifications:

• MCSE, MCSD, MCSA, etc.;
• MCITP Enterprise Administrator (Microsoft Certified IT Professional) on Windows Server;
• VMWare Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV)
• MCDBA will be an advantage