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Specialist Systems Administrator (VMware Certified)
Job Location:
Job Location:
Pretoria - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
29 September 2026 (Yesterday)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
27 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
We are sourcing for a Specialist: Systems Administrator on a 6 Months contract with potential of an extension.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Deep skills and experience in Microsoft Operating Systems and Applications with the following certifications:
- 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.
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
Required Experience:
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