ICT Support Engineer (Linux / Security)
| Location | Cape Winelands, South Africa |
| Date Posted | April 19, 2021 |
| Category |
Engineering
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| Job Type |
Full-time
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| Currency | ZAR |
Description
Based in Somerset West, this global technology organization focuses on big and complex applications for large government projects.
A very secure and highly successful organization who prefer hiring perm staff and in return offer very good benefits and long term stability.
As a culture, the focus is on holistic modernization and continuous improvement.
Description
Responsibilities:
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- Providing input and support on ICT projects where required.
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- Supporting / maintaining:
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- Linux Server environments and Open-source platforms / tools.
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- Firewall, UTM, IDS and IPS systems.
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- Supporting / maintaining:
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- Communicating areas for improvement to management.
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- Responding to emerging threats and other forms of targeted attacks.
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- Implementing and maintaining new / existing cyber security initiatives.
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- Advising on installation, configuration and upgrading of servers.
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- Suggesting areas for improvement in internal processes.
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- Admin of tools for event and performance monitoring & capacity planning.
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- Providing input into policy / procedure development.
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- Constant monitoring and notifications of open-source vulnerabilities.
Profile
Qualifications:
- Relevant tertiary IT qualification
- Certifications: Linux | RHCE / RHCSA
- Security related certification advantageous .e.g. CEH, Security +
Skills / Experience:
- 5+ years’ experience and working knowledge of Linux.
- 5+ years hands on firewalling / security experience.
- 1+ years’ experience in the following:
- Fortigate UTM appliances or Mikrotik firewall.
- Virtualization e.g. VMware, KVM.
- Redhat and CentOS skills.
- Performance optimization and capacity planning of virtualized environments.
- Advanced knowledge of networking fundamentals (all OSI layers).
- Strong hands-on experience / knowledge of the following:
- LAN / VLAN / Wireless /VOIP and WAN technologies.
- Firewalling and traffic management.
- Exposure to backup products (Backup Exec / Veeam Backup and Replication).
- Exposure to SAN storage environment administration.
- IT Security assessment / Ethical hacking experience advantageous
- Experience with the following:
- Managing Microsoft Active Directory Environments advantageous
- Penetration testing, cybercrime countermeasures and cyber security assessments.
- Maintaining Microsoft Exchange Server Environments.
- Scripting - PHP, Bash, Pearl & Python.
- Monitoring solutions such as Nagios, Zenoss, Zabbix.
- Automation / deployment tools such as Ansible.
- Familiarity with Cobit / ITIL / ISO 27001.
We offer
Competitive Salary