- Professional
- Office in Sunninghill
This role is responsible for the design, provision, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
Azure:
- Cloud Infrastructure Design/Architecture definition.
- Estimation of Architecture Costs.
- Customer Environment Deployment.
- Customer Support on Environments.
- Cyber Security Regulations.
- Customer Cloud Infrastructure maintenance.
- Performance Monitoring, proactive management, and Reporting.
- Server Administration.
- Actively participate in Continuous Improvement initiatives.
- This person is expected to work with business users, analysts, and peers to provide solutions following a defined Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) process. The person is expected to be a Mid to Senior Level Microsoft Engineer and has the capability and understanding of other
- applications such as Microsoft SQL, and Microsoft Server environments in order to recommend and utilize appropriate toolsets based on business requirements.
- The incumbent may be asked to perform other duties as apparent or assigned.
- The job requires standby duties to be performed after hours on a rotation basis.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Qualifications and Experience
- Senior Certificate or NQF 4 equivalent.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent is an advantage.
- 3 – 5 years’ experience in Large Microsoft Enterprise environments
- Relevant and Current Azure Certifications
Skills required
- Strong Industry knowledge
- Strong business process knowledge
- Strong Technical Skills
- Strong hardware and software knowledge
- Strong networking infrastructure knowledge
- Excellent writing skills (English)
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Excellent Analytical Skills
- Excellent time management
- Excellent training skills
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to visualize the big picture and manage minute details.
- Motivated and strong work ethic.
- Collaborative personality with excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to interact effectively with all levels in the organization.
Knowledge
- Familiarity with Active Directory, Security, OS Internal concepts, IIS Administration experience.
- Experience with Hyper-V configuration and administration networking.
- Experience with Microsoft Management tools (SCOM, SCCM, SCSM, MS Orchestrator (Opalis)).
- Familiarity with networking tools (ping, tracert, tracemon, NetMon, wire shark, etc.).
- Familiarity with networking concepts including VIPs, NAT, DNS.
- Advanced experience with scripting tools such as XML and PowerShell.
- Experience working with and maintaining MS SQL Server, including performance tuning.
- Experience configuring and maintaining MS Azure PaaS & IaaS & SaaS offerings.
- Server clustering experience.
- Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions Certification.
- Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions Certifications.
- Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Certification
- Understanding of security and segregation of duty requirements for an enterprise system.
