Company Profile
AVI LIMITED is home to many of South Africa’s leading and best-loved brands! Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and centred on the FMCG market, AVI’s extensive brand portfolio includes more than 50 brands. Our brands span a range of categories including hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, out-of-home ranges, personal care products, cosmetics, footwear, accessories, and fashion apparel. We have a well-developed Shared Services structure spanning: International, IT, Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Procurement and Field Marketing, that allows us to take advantage of our scale. Our single-minded purpose is our brands growth and development.
Duties and Responsibilities
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:Installing, configuring, maintaining, and optimizing all infrastructure components such as server hardware, storage systems, virtualisation platforms, software automation and monitoring and supporting software systems. Perform close monitoring of the systems using the relevant monitoring tools and react quickly to alerts as well as resolve complex problems as they occur. Install, configure, administer and maintain SAP and other business-critical systems to OS level (which include but is not limited to: SAP ERP, CRM, Solution Manager, MS SQL, MSBI)
FURTHER RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:Implement changes/upgrades where appropriate in line with the change management procedures in placeAdminister and maintain the system monitoring and management platformsPlay a key role in upskilling first-line support team members to ensure they understand the systems infrastructure landscape and how these could affect the performance of the AVI Client base.Mentor and cross-skill members of the Infrastructure teams (SD, Field Engineers and SD agents)
Competencies
Thinking analyticallyBuilding relationshipsStaying composedEmbracing ChangeAttention to detailPlanning and OrganisingKeeping CommitmentsTaking initiative
Experience Required
2 years Microsoft systems administration including Windows Server, Active Directory and MS Exchange2 years of Enterprise storage administration (TinTri, Dell, HP)2 years of Enterprise server administration (Dell and HP)2 years of Virtualisation administration (VMWare)2 years SCCM, SCOM, SCSM and EMS administration2 years of Backup-to-disk systems and associated software and processes
Minimum Qualifications Required
QUALIFICATIONS:MatricTertiary Degree or Diploma in IT and/or Engineering
CERTIFICATIONS: Valid CCENT/N+ (Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician)Valid MTA (Microsoft Technology Associate)Valid MCSEValid [URL Removed]MS System Centre (SCCM, SCOM, SCSM, Orchestrator)MS Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS – RMS, ATA)RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator)DCA (Dell Certified Associate) – PowerEdgeDCP (Dell Certified Professional) – PowerEdgeDCA (Dell Certified Associate) – StorageDCP (Dell Certified Professional) – SC Series StorageVMCE (Veeam Certified Engineer v9+)TinTri-U
Knowledge Required
LAN and WAN and IP Telephony technologiesWi-Fi technologies and infrastructureProtocols such as HTTP, DNS, SMTP, SNMP and other web-based protocolsNetworking principles – TCP, UDP, FTP, firewall technologies (e.g. Fortigate)