Client: Border Management Authority 

Purpose: 

Virtualisation engineers designs, implement and monitor virtualisation solutions for the organisations. In addition, an engineer who is well-versed in virtualisation, networking and compute and help
design versatile systems that are easy to use. Professionals must be knowledgeable of multiple
operating systems, applications, and hardware components.
 
Backup engineers designs, implement and monitor backup solutions for the organisations. In addition,
an engineer who is well-versed in backups and computing. Also help to design versatile systems that
are easy to use. Professionals must be knowledgeable of multiple operating systems, applications,
and hardware components
 
Storage engineers design and monitor information storage systems solutions for organisations. In
addition, an engineer who is well-versed in storage, networking and compute and help design
versatile systems that are easy to use Professionals must be knowledgeable of multiple operating
systems, applications and hardware components.

Qualifications: 

• Tertiary Qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field or equivalent experience required.
• Storage/Backup/Virtualisation certification or 5 years’ demonstrable experience
• 5-8 years’ experience in a related field

Other Requirement:

• Must be a South African citizen with a clear criminal record.
• Valid driver’s license and own reliable transport.
• Able to obtain and retain high level security clearance.
• Ability to travel extensively nationally and work after hours as and when required.

Skills, Competencies and Experience

• Exposure in setting up frameworks and structures
• Design, planning, hardware/software installation, operations, maintenance, and upgrades to UNIX, VMware, HP, IBM and EMC systems and infrastructure systems.
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of IT operations and processes and of applicable infrastructure deployments, applications, and scripting languages.
• Thorough knowledge of best practices related to virtualisation administration and documentation.
• Experienced in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Technical Services supporting backup and restore of data, business continuity methods and policies, system High availability and Disaster Recovery strategy and testing Experience configuring and tuning HBA’s to work with virtualised environments on Linux, Windows and ESX hosts.
• Thorough understanding of Multipath high availability storage configuration
• Linux, Scripting, and server optimization.
• VMware vSphere Client.
• Hyper-V.
• Windows Server 2012, 2012R2.
• Windows Server 2008, 2008R2.
• Server Hardware Break/fix/Installation/Decommissioning.
• Linux OS and software installation Ubuntu, SUSE, Debian, RHEL
• Technical understanding of VMWare and PowerShell
• Clustering Services
• Supporting HP, EMC, or similar high-end and mid-range Disk Arrays including LUN allocation/masking, performance and capacity management and administration
• Have broad experience with a variety of storage technologies including Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), and Tape Backup/Restore technology in a mission
• 4 years of experience in the design, implementation, administration and troubleshooting of a multi-site enterprise backup/ recovery environment.
• 4 years of experience with Veritas NetBackup and Veritas OpsCenter
• Proven experience in the integration of Veritas NetBackup and snapshot technologies
• Proven experience with backup processes associated with Windows, Linux, UNIX, VMS, database platforms (MSSQL, IBM DB2, Cache, Sybase, and Oracle), Veritas Enterprise Vault, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, and NDMP
• Have broad experience with a variety of storage technologies including Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), and Tape Backup/Restore technology in a mission

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring alignment to group data policies, strategy, data management and governance frameworks and practices.
• Assess current alignment to group data policies and strategies, data management and data governance frameworks and practices and in conjunction with data stewards define the required processes and frameworks.
• Design virtualisation systems that are cost effective and meet the performance and availability requirements defined by the business.
• Plan roll-out of new virtualisation hardware and system releases and make sure that they are properly tested before deployment to production to minimize the impact of change-related incidents.
• Develop comprehensive operational procedures for on-going support, change management, incident, and problem management.
• Conduct capacity planning, process and resource analyses of the virtualisation environments and recommend performance improvement options.
• Create and maintain documentation for existing and new virtualisation systems using detailed diagrams.
• Provide on-call support in a customer centric environment and resolve the more complex problems, including the resolution of complex performance and availability problems occurring within the virtualised systems.
• Monitor health and performance of key virtualisation systems daily; develop and implement moderately complex virtualisation monitoring tools and verify that service levels are being met and communicated to the various business owners.
• Monitor security forums and vendor mailing lists, make sure that all virtualisation systems are up to date with patches and not vulnerable to attacks.
• Perform considerably complex troubleshooting of virtualisation systems in collaboration with other teams, ensures complete resolution of incident and customer satisfaction or escalates to more senior level staff.
• Participate in various projects as a technical resource.
• Maintains current knowledge of the organisation’s IT infrastructure and operations.
• Installation and configuration of hardware components in our data centres.
• Perform any other duties as required to deliver exceptional service and to support DHA’s business goals