Systems & Networks Administrator

One of our clients is looking to hire a Systems Administrator to join their growing team, reporting directly to the Security & Network Engineer. You will be responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure. In more detail, you will be involved in:

• Managing and monitoring all installed systems and all IT infrastructure including network and telephony
• Delivering day-to-day IT and desktop support via telephone, email, remotely or on-site
• Responsible for various systems setup, maintenance and troubleshooting
• Ensuring that the overall IT infrastructure is working efficiently and according to strict quality and security standards
• Supporting roll-outs of new applications
• Managing systems and applications backups
• Prioritising and managing multiple open cases at one time
• Mitigating of IT risks, aiding in setting up mechanisms to avoid/neutralise threats to the IT infrastructure
• Assisting in rollouts of new Environments
• Assisting the Security and network engineer with security-related tasks

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree/ Diploma in IT or IT certifications
• Have a minimum of 3 years working in the IT field with a minimum of 1-year experience in a similar post
• Experience with both Server and Network Configuration, with a preference on Networking
• Experience in Firewall configuration
• Experience in Linux, MS Windows Server Administration and VMware virtualisation platform would be preferred
• Knowledge in scripting and apache administration would be considered an asset
• Have experience with Networking and Networking technologies and protocols
• Have practical knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory, DFS, IIS and WSUS
• Have practical knowledge of Microsoft Server and desktop environments 
• Have practical knowledge of Microsoft O365 environments
• Other non-Windows environments, such as Red Hat Linux and other variants of this OS is a must
• Knowledge of Apache HTTPD server
• Knowledgeable on storage technologies and configurations
• Knowledgeable of backup technologies mainly focusing on Veeam
• Knowledgeable with scripting languages, particularly Windows PowerShell and Linux Bash
• Knowledge of monitoring solutions such as Nagios will be considered an asset but not a requirement
• Have knowledge of the entire TCP\IP, OSI network protocol stack, such as (IP\TCP, ICMP\UDP\SMTP\POP3\HTTP\FTP\SSH)

Skills:

• Good troubleshooting, capable of analysing a problem and finding a long-term working solution
• Passion for automation
• Security aware
• A great team-player
• Excellent time management, task planning and prioritising
• Very good written and verbal communication

It's OK to NOT know each and every technology. If you have the main skillset, please apply and let's discuss.

This role is within the banking industry.