Resident Engineer (Systems, Yearly contract)
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Responsibilities:
- Handles the technical aspects of patch deployment and system updates.
- Ensures that patches are tested, scheduled, and deployed with minimal disruption to system availability.
- Responsible for testing patches in a controlled environment before deploying them to production systems.
- Verify that patches do not introduce new issues or conflicts.
- Regular scanning and analysis.
- Scheduled and controlled patch deployment.
- Perform risk-based prioritization.
- Rigorous testing in a controlled environment.
- Collaborate with customer’s IT team for user acceptance testing.
- Emergency response for critical vulnerabilities.
- Understand the customer’s infrastructure and become familiar with the Customer’s infrastructure environment and support processes and procedures to ensure supporting customer with proper SLAs.
- Troubleshoot production issues to fix any user related issues and work with principal vendors and customer to provide the resolution within the proposed timelines.
- Be available for customers’ questions in assisting their needs to support any issues and monitor customer’s environment leveraging appropriate monitoring tools as well for special scheduled activities performed during non-business hours or public holidays due to system upgrades.
The Individual and their Experience:
- Linux OS patching
- MySQL system and patching knowledge
- MSSQL system and patching knowledge
- Maria DB system and patching knowledge
- Eagerness and willingness to pick up & adapt new skills and automation.
Our customers span across industries such as financial services, TMT (Telecommunications, Media and Technology), Education, Healthcare, Retail, Government, Manufacturing and Professional services. Our focus is to engage in the dynamics of our customers’ vertical markets and apply the skills of our employees in modernizing key digital pillars, Data centres and Cloud services, Security and Network Infrastructure, Workspace communications and collaboration, Data and information strategies, and IT operations modernization.
Logicalis Group has an annualized revenue of over $1.7 billion, from operations in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific and Africa. It is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, with revenues of over $4 billion.
Interested applicants please submit your application with your expected salary and notice period to be considered for the role.
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