Officer IT Infrastructure (Unix admin)

The Officer - IT Infrastructure is responsible to perform thorough testing before installing software, apply patches/upgrades, manage file systems, monitor performance and troubleshoot alerts from commercial, open source and locally developed monitoring tools.

The Officer - IT Infrastructure is responsible to perform thorough testing before installing software, apply patches/upgrades, manage file systems, monitor performance and troubleshoot alerts from commercial, open source and locally developed monitoring tools.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform thorough testing before installing software, apply patches/upgrades, manage file systems, monitor performance and troubleshoot alerts from commercial, open source and locally developed monitoring tools.
• System failure analysis and recovery
• Hardware/software configuration and management.
• Technical support and general troubleshooting.
• Administer high availability/cluster architecture (Veritas Infoscale etc.).
• Administer storage and NetBackup
• Space capacity planning on storage/servers.
• Manage and lead hardware and software migration and upgrade efforts of varying size and complexity
• Manage IBM WebSphere
• System Access Review
• Technical Project Management

PREREQUISITES:

• University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar field
• Required experience as UNIX AIX and/or Solaris and/ or RedHat Linux system administrator (minimum 1 years)
• Experience in the following areas is an advantage.
  • Storage replication
  • Experience in IBM p series
  • Oracle RDBMS/ MS SQL rdbms

 SKILLS:

• Knowledge of UNIX and LINUX operating systems, storage environments, file systems, network protocols.
• Familiarity with UNIX, and LINUX shell scripting
• Desirable experience with Oracle Database Server, MS SQL Server (Always on Availability Groups etc.), Mongo DB or MySQL
• Understanding database design, implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance will be a plus
• Good Understanding of backup procedures and storage management.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Team player