System Engineer – Capitec Bank Ltd

Purpose Statement

To engineer, implement, maintain and support the Capitec server and storage product offering and environment, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the reliability, security, and performance of systems and networks. The Systems Engineer is responsible for troubleshooting issues, optimizing performance, and implementing new technologies to support business operations and acts as escalation for level 2 engineers on at least 1 technology and acts as escalation for level 1 engineers on multiple technologies.
Initiate, plan and deliver product improvements based on customer needs. Coaching and mentoring of level 2 system engineers in the team.
Liaise with vendors to maintain relationships and level of service.

Experience:

7+ years’ experience as a Systems Engineer or similar role, with a strong background in system administration, network management, server/storage engineering and administration and IT operational support capacity
Experience with server/storage equipment and technologies.
Mentoring and coaching experience.
System planning and design experience.
Experience with performance monitoring and optimization tools, troubleshooting methodologies, and incident management.

Knowledge:

Expert knowledge of networks, security, virtualization, hardware, cloud and systems development processes.
(Windows/Linux) Server & storage systems administration
Business continuity
IT Operations
Sound understanding of automation and devops practices

Capitec is committed to diversity, applications to this position will strictly be considered in support of our employment equity goals.