System Administrator

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Detail information about job System Administrator. Terms and conditions vacancy

The Company

KeepItSafe® is a premium, worldwide recognised brand of j2! KeepItSafe® has operations in major markets around the world, including North America and Europe. KeepItSafe is world leader in Cloud-based Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions with over 20+ years of experience, $1.2 billion in backing and 20+ data centre locations across three continents. Our experts protect more than 50 petabytes of critical data every year.

At KeepItSafe, we are on a mission to protect our customers' data, 24/7, from anything — natural disasters, cyber theft, human error, system corruption. If disaster does strike, we're there — at a moment's notice — to restore everything.

The Role:

We have an excellent opportunity for a System Administrator in our Freemans Bay office. The System Administrator will be involved primarily in ongoing architecture improvement projects as well as day-to-day operational requirements of KIS Cloud Backup infrastructure across New Zealand and Australia.

Position Duties and Responsibilities:

• Administer, maintain and perform on-site support of hardware, software and network devices at KeepItSafe's Data Centres and Offices.
• Participate in Service Desk request fulfilment, access management, monitoring and event management, incident management, and problem management (Tier 1 and Tier 2 resolutions) new Customer Provisioning, application support and operations issues.
• Monitor the availability and utilization of LAN/WAN and Server Infrastructure.
• Maintain network security and data integrity by monitoring authoritative security sources , ensuring compliance with IT policies and procedures and security settings and systems patches are proactively maintained.
• Create and maintain IT documentation, including employee self-help information, internal IT reference materials and best practices.
• Perform advanced administration, maintenance, setup, configuration, and troubleshooting of the storage arrays, servers, databases and network equipment and associated monitoring systems.
• Identify problem or IT risk areas, implement prioritized remediation projects.
• Proactively seek service improvements, innovations, and efficiencies within support and operations
• Assist in the maintenance of asset management registers and other record keeping activities.
• Assist the IT Operations & Infrastructure Manager with projects.
• Maintain an in-depth Knowledge of KeepItSafe’s products & Services projects.

Required Skills

• 5+ Years Experience in a similar role
• Current Microsoft MCSE or equivalent
• Deep understanding of backup’s infrastructure, and the ongoing management, monitoring, maintenance of the various environments to maintain uptime.
• Knowledge and experience with Ahsay, Asigra, RapidRecovery or Veeam
• Deep understanding and experience of local and network storage configuration (RAID, iSCSI, NFS)
• Linux, (CentOS/RedHat), systems administration gained in an enterprise environment.
• Strong Virtualization experience (Hyper-v and VMWare)
• Network experience, Switches, Firewalls, VLANs, VPN (pfsense, Cisco, Fortinet, HP, Extreme Networks)
• Remote management of servers (iLO, iDRAC, IPMI)
• Web Server, SSL knowledge.
• Strong Windows server knowledge, Active Directory, LDAP
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Zabbix configuration and deployment
• Experience in SMB and Enterprise IT
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• An ability to communicate technical problems to non-technical staff and customers
• Ability to work effectively in both project and operational environments

Desirable Skills:

• Tertiary Qualifications in Information Technology
• ITIL formal training and certification
• CoBit formal training and certification
• ISO27001 formal training and certification
• Knowledge of :
  • VOIP Technologies
  • Security, risk & IT governance. 
  • GDPR and HIPPA

If this sounds like you, apply now! for further company information please visit:

www.keepitsafe.co.nz and www.j2global.com