Description Managed Talent Solutions, a division within Datacentrix, is looking for X10 IT Infrastructure Systems Administrators for one of their clients based in Centurion. This is a month contract. The Systems Administrators will be required to do maintenance, management, and support of the company's data centre infrastructure. Qualifications and Skills Required: Matric plus Diploma in Information Technology or related field Certifications: MCSA, MCSE or MCSD Certification: MCITP Enterprise Administrator (Microsoft Certified IT Professional) on Windows Server Certification: VMWare Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV) Certification: MCDBA Software Patch management, uptime monitoring, and top-tier support Extensive knowledge and experience on virtualization technologies (VMWare and Hyper-V) Networking skills, configuration of switches, IP ranges, and VLANs (VPN, Cisco routers, Satellite networks, Switches, VLANs, VOIP, etc.) Skills and experience in data-center hardware and software support and installation Good knowledge of backup solutions (e.g. Veritas NetBackup, Enterprise Vault, etc.) Responsibilities: Administer and manage processes as part of a systems administration team and be responsible for selected processes in the data-center 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-center: SCCM SCOM VMWare Active Directory and DNS Back-ups and archiving Veritas Storage including a storage area network (SAN) Symantec antivirus Patch management (Ivanti) Server management (Microsoft Windows) Server hardware and software support; Provide support to provincial and municipal offices; Manages and monitors anti-virus products across the organisation; Manages and monitors patch management across the 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); Is responsible for the overall infrastructure architecture, including compliance with the company’s 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 analyses, prioritises, categorises, approves, and schedules 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; Reviews and evaluates the change process; Manages and monitors data storage using storage area network (SAN) technologies; Knowledge of Microsoft Clustering services Manages the VMWare environment; Schedule and perform maintenance of systems; Provisioning of datacenter infrastructure; Evaluates new technologies and prepares documentation #J-18808-Ljbffr