IT Architect – Windows OS for Desktop
Location | Gauteng, South Africa |
Date Posted | August 14, 2022 |
Category |
IT / Information Technology
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Job Type |
Contract
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Currency | ZAR |
Description
Duties & Responsibilities
ROLE
- Take full ownership of the Windows OS for Desktop solution, act as the SME (subject matter expert) within other initiatives and projects
- Closely work with our offshore DevOps Provider to deliver a stable and secure solution.
- Design, Support, Maintain and Implement the Windows OS for Desktop computers solution
- Technology observation of innovations on Windows platforms
- Design, Support, Maintain and Implement a geographically distributed client infrastructure for more than 100.000 clients
- Keep track of all issues from patches, features, deployment, permissions
- Interact with various infrastructure teams for example Active Directory, Multifactor Authentication, Network, Client, Server and Hardware
- Have a close alignment with our business partners to understand their needs and to fulfil their requirements.
Desired Experience & Qualification
REQUIREMENTS:
- A university degree in a relevant field of study (e.g. computer science, engineering, sciences) or a comparable qualification.
- Strong analytical thinking (technical as well as product design)
- Excellent communication skills, concise, and targeted towards your audience: engineers, products or stakeholders.
- Interest in technology stacks and technology trends
- Strong written and spoken English skills are mandatory.
- Strong Documentation skills.
- Open to SA Citizens / Permanent Residents
- Willing and able to travel internationally
Technical / Functional skills
- Strong technical experience with Windows OS (Windows 10), Group Policy configurations, OS image engineering and deployment
- Strong technical experience with Windows OS Security and Patch Management process
- Expertise in the Windows Architecture and Windows 10 Modern Management.
- Project Management Skills (Rollout as well as Migrations)
- Knowledge in provider steering
- Knowledge in operations within a large corporate environment
- Knowhow of the agile methodology
Soft skills
- Strong team and communication skills (with both technical and non-technical colleagues / users)
- Strong ability to understand and interpret Business needs and requirements with the ability to move concepts through to proposal and finally successful implementation.
- Should be willing to deal with (talk to) our customers. In most cases they will be foreign customers and language barriers might exist.
- Ability to submit deliverables on time and in excellent quality.
- SELF STARTER.
- Ability and willingness to coach and give training to fellow colleagues and users when required.