Job Advert Summary
The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
Maintain and support the Land Bank (Head Office and Branches) including data centre, server infrastructure and Patch Managegment on all IT related infrastrcture with respect to performance, availability and security. Responsibilities include administration and management of the following:, Wireless Infrastructure (i.e. Aruba environment and VMWare), Chassis/ Blade/ Storage infrastructure, Windows security related, Firmware, Active Directory, Windows, UNIX & Linux Servers, Print Services, Exchange Servers, Anti-virus, Skype for Business, and the Citrix environment. The job is also responsible for these aspects of Disaster Recovery.
Key Performance Areas
1. Ensuring Availability and Performance of the Server Infrastructure, Network Infrastructure
- Monitor server and network environment (LAN/WAN/SAN) to ensure optimum operation
- Ensure that the operating systems are correctly installed and configured and that all necessary patches are installed.
- Monitor current and anticipated system demand versus capacity and make recommendations concerning system expansion so that the organization has sufficient capabilities to meet business requirements.
- Ensure all software and firmware patches are applied according to the Land Bank patch management strategy - on all applications, operating systems and infrastructure.
- Monitor and report on patch roll-out.
2. IT Infrastructure Security
- To proactively monitor and maintain the active directory environment
- Ensure that all required security patches, antivirus and malware protection is in place and operating optimally.
- Conform to and apply accepted password protection processes.
- Ensure that all required security patches, antivirus and malware protection is in place and operating optimally.
- Conform to and apply accepted password protection processes.
3. Server Environment
- Configure and maintain data centre, branch and head office networking and equipment.
- Maintain data centre, branch and head office equipment.
- Ensure that the operating systems are correctly installed and configured and that all necessary patches are installed
4. Disaster Recovery
- Define, implement and test the efficiency of DR procedures to endure that systems can be recovered in the case of a disaster.
- Ensure that an effective backup strategy is implemented and followed to ensure adequate protection against loss of data and information.
- Ensure compliance to all relevant safety, risk and environmental policies and procedures
- Support the efficiency of DR procedures to endure that systems can be recovered in the case of a disaster.
5. Administration, Reporting and Documentation
- Develop and provide periodic reports to management on the availability and capacity of all servers, disk usage including associated or peripheral infrastructure and networks under your control.
- Ensure that all required system configuration and process documentation within area of responsibility is kept up to date.
- Recommend improvements to departmental policies and procedures so that all relevant procedural and legislative requirements are fulfilled.
- Identify and propose opportunities for improvements to IT infrastructure and operations
Preferred Minimum Education and Experience
- National Diploma in IT or equivalent
- MCSE Certification or equivalent
- ITIL Foundation Certification
- Microsoft Systems Administration (servers)
- MS Exchange
- Disaster Recovery
- HP Blade Server & C7000 Technologies
- Backup and Recovery (preferably HP Backup Exec/ Data Protector)
- Firmware Patching
Critical Competencies
- Microsoft Windows Systems Administration
- HP Blade Server Technology
- Anti-virus technology
- Patch Management
- Server Virtualization
- Citrix
- Patch Management
- Firewall Technologies
Additional Requirements
- Extended hours as and when required
- Travel as and when required
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