An opportunity has arisen to appoint a Systems Administrator.

Skills and experience required

• Appropriate Degree/Diploma - B.Com/BSc Computer Science/Information Systems/Financial Information Systems;
• Above average communication skills (written & verbal);
• Experience in a systems analyst role;
• Confident & enthusiastic with an ability to adapt to a changing environment;
• Team leadership experience an advantage;
• Experience on Silica & Flexcube systems an advantage 
• 4+ years’ experience in systems support and administration 
• Experience in application implementations, as well as application deployment and/or distributed system implementation.
• Experience in writing complex SQL queries

Summary of the position

The primary responsibility for this position is to provide system-level support of multi-user applications, hardware and software tools, including installation, configuration, maintenance, and support of these systems. Identify alternatives for optimizing of application processes.

Outline of main duties and responsibilities

• Provide standby support to the 1st Level support team for the application systems;
• Analyze and evaluate existing or proposed systems and processes;
• Plan, install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain and upgrade of application systems;
• Analyze and evaluate present or proposed business procedures or problems to define data processing needs
• Prepare detailed documentation outlining systems capabilities and processes
• Work as a team member with other technical staff, such as networking to ensure connectivity and compatibility between systems.
• Write and maintain system documentation
• Document system problems and resolutions for knowledge management.
• Responsible for logging and tracking of errors/enhancements to Vendors;
• Analysis, escalation and follow up of technical incidents; 
• Responsible for month end runs – This includes working extended hours at month end;
• Interacting extensively within departments
• Focus on user experience to drive functional and technological changes;
• Support the system’s in-house user-base, applying COBIT/ITIL best governance practices;
• Manage and maintain security of system at all levels business units, security roles, access etc.

Send a detailed copy of your CV to Bonita (bonita(at)recru-it(dot)co(dot)za)

Should you not be contacted within 7 days, please consider your application as unsuccessful.