Location, Stellenbosch, Cape Winelands, Job Type Full-Time, Blue Desk Vacancy: Senior ICT Support Engineer – Linux & Security. Salary R60-R70K per month + brilliant benefits. Offices located in Stellenbosch Cape Winelands area. Urgent position. Full JD on request.

Purpose of the Position: The successful incumbent will be part of the ICT team to service the ICT requirements of the organization as a whole as well as the ICT related needs of the respective development programmes.

Requirements: Relevant tertiary IT qualification. Strong troubleshooting skills. Redhat and CentOS skills. 5+ years’ experience and working knowledge of Linux. 5+ years hands on firewalling/security experience. 1+ years’ Fortigate UTM appliances or Mikrotik firewall. 1+ years’ experience with virtualization e.g. VMware, KVM. Experience with performance optimization and capacity planning of virtualized environments. Advanced knowledge of networking fundamentals. Solid experience of LAN / VLAN / Wireless /VOIP and WAN. Solid experience firewalling and traffic management. Exposure to SAN storage environment administration.

Exposure to backup products: Backup Exec and Veeam Backup and Replication.

Responsibility: Report to Manager ICT and provide input and support on ICT projects. Support and maintain Linux Server environments and Open Source Platforms/Tools. Support and maintain firewall, UTM, IDS and IPS systems. Improve the overall effectiveness of security safeguards and controls. Respond to threats of targeted attacks, organized crime, ransomware etc. Implement new and maintain existing cyber security initiatives and provide input into internal IT Security standards, and implement control and risk procedures.

Advise on the installation, configuration and upgrade servers in line with policy and system requirements. Suggests areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions. Installing and configuring tools for event monitoring, capacity planning, performance monitoring, etc. Support ICT governance initiatives and provide input into policy/procedure development.

Constant monitoring and notifications of open source vulnerabilities in our applications through the use of Nexus Repository and Nexus Lifecycle. Skills and Knowledge that would be an advantage.

Certifications: Linux, RHCE/RHCSA. IT Security assessment/Ethical hacking experience advantageous. Security related certification advantageous .e.g. CEH, Security + Experience with managing a Microsoft Active Directory Environments. Experience with penetration testing, cybercrime countermeasures and cyber security assessments. Experience with maintaining a Microsoft Exchange Server Environments. Scripting – PHP, Bash, Pearl & Python. Monitoring solutions such as Nagios, Zenoss, Zabbix. Automation/deployment tools such as Ansible. Rolling out and support of open source solutions. Familiarity with Cobit/ITIL/ISO 27001. Salary: R90000

Send CV to: melissa@bluedesk.co.za