System Administrator- Identity Management

at  ADvTECH

Responsible for administration, the co-ordination, configuration programming, installation, and management of ADvTECH IT architectures and related services with the enterprise. Responsible for administration, building, implementing and supporting system architectures, and for the identification and resolution of high-level hardware and software technical problems and malfunctions related to the network and related servers.
Advises team leader in the areas of performance analysis, problem solving, and infrastructure planning, with the potential to affect the successful execution of business transactions. Ensures a stable performance environment for the business processing system.
Participates in various ICT projects intended to continually improve/upgrade the system infrastructure, ensuring change management procedures and methodologies are implemented and followed.
Proactively researches and locates the necessary tools and processes to identify and avert troublesome trends as they develop. Ensures a stable performance environment for the business processing system. Participates in various IT projects intended to continually improve/upgrade the system infrastructure. Establishes systems programming standards and documentation requirements.
Provides reports and metrics to improve system availability and performance relating to overall systems health, thus providing an holistic management view with recommendations to alleviate or curb any current or prospective issues.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

5 years LAN / WAN
5 years ICT industry experience
5years Systems Administration
5 years Problem Managemen

Output 1 - Applications & Systems (New Systems, Changes and deployments):

• Administrate, manage, and implement Systems and Applications changes.
• Administrate, manage, and maintain various environments for systems and Applications.
• Ensure adherence to quality assurance steps for systems changes and deployments.
• Ensure conformance with SDLC and take responsibility for the deployments of applications & systems changes to operations. Liaise with various teams to ensure handover procedures to operations are followed.
• Ensure maintaining applications & systems architectural standards
• Ensure adherence to release management procedures
• Ensure sufficient capacity planning for applications & systems by liaising with Infrastructure teams to commission resources
• Ensure systems configuration changes are handled without adversely affecting operation

Output 2 - Business Systems and Identities Management:

• Ensures applications/systems. systems integrations are operating at agreed SLAs (Uptime) to facilitate the successful execution of business transaction.
• Ensures a stable performance environment for the business processing system.
• Identification and resolution of applications and systems problems.
• Lead out troubleshooting and resolution of Major Incidents. Facilitate maximum Incident Response procedures.
• Carry out performance analysis on systems and analysis and ensure systems maintain acceptable performance levels
• Proactively researches amd locates necessary tools and processes to identify and avert systems and applications service depletion. Ensure continuous optimization of systems performance.
• Ensure systems errors are detected, logged, and resolved timeously.
• Administer and optimize ADvTECH Identities and integration services
• Assist System Team lead with Identity management and report on system performance and stastitics.

Output 3 - Project Participation:

• Participates in various IT projects intended to continually improve/upgrade the systems and applications.
• Plan and assist with IT and systems projects to ensure optimal delivery and minimal disruption and or downtime.
• Liaise with other teams and team members within AIT to ensure the delivery of- projects are done on time and within the parameters of best practice set out by AIT and governance.
• Participate in change control and other project-based governance forums to ensure AIT standards are followed and adhered to.
• Compile project reports to respective stakeholders outlining the status of tasks in a project and report on these in monthly reports