Salary: R50k – R75k p.m., Neg., CTC incl. Benefits Package, Experience based.
Senior Position
 
A new division at a leading banking sector seeks an Infrastructure Architect IT (Linux) with 5 years working experience in the financial or IT industry.
 
Responsibilities:

• Producing and delivering engaging and informative presentations
• Developing and designing network and hardware infrastructure
• Ability to diagnose and identify system and infrastructure efficiency
• Must be proficient in Redhat Linux
• Ownership of IT infrastructure design for business projects
• Working closely with Technical Solutions Architect and Program / Project Management team
• Control of internal and external technical design consultants to ensure they are cost effective and deliver quality outputs related to network and hardware infrastructure
• Input to design and underpinning of infrastructure estimates for business cases
• To maintain an efficient core infrastructure design
• Design shape, integration and implement decisions
• Analyse and solve complex architectural problems; present options; prevent obstacles, objections and constraints
• Integrate and prioritise decisions and action needed
• Ensure that solutions follow guided principles

Technical Design:

• Standardise, simplify and rationalise operating systems across the board
• Engage and implement concepts and models from a deep technical perspective
• Articulate existing functionality and the value of re-using existing methodologies
• Create reusable patterns and practises
• Negotiate trade-offs and compromises
• Ensure all Infrastructure related systems are documented i.t.o. Design, Configuration and Administration

Qualification & Experience:

• 3 year degree or diploma with an Engineering discipline
• Experience with strong skills and live exposure in the following SAN, NAS and Cisco
• Experience with large-scale transformation and migration projects
• Detailed knowledge of Project Management Methodologies in order to complement project managers within the design stages of the project.
• High-level consultancy skills in network design in WAN, LAN, storage and server design.
• Experience of Business Continuity planning and Disaster Recovery and implementation
• Hands-on experience of WAN/LAN infrastructure coupled with diagnostic skills supported by detailed technical knowledge of protocols
• Experience on various hardware and software environments including virtualization, operating systems, application servers and databases
• Knowledge of Java and Jboss applications/systems

 
Essential Technologies:

• Linux experience,
• Agile methodologies  – 5 + years experience working on RHEL (Redhat) Linux, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, Java,
• DNS. TCP/IP networking,
• Remote Access Networking e.g. VPN.
• Virtualisation techniques, e.g. VMWare.

We are unfortunately not able to accommodate non-SA Citizens.
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