Tertius Stander

• Day-to-day operational support and maintenance of Unix related platforms with specific focus on Hosting and Mail
• Perform system optimization, capacity planning and improvement
• Perform advanced Unix troubleshooting and scripting
• Escalation of critical outages to direct Line Manager
• Deployment, upgrading, monitoring and administration of MWEB Core UNIX infrastructure
• Patching of OS and applications as per Unix best practices
• High availability and disaster recovery planning and execution
• Centos/Redhat/FreeBSD/Debian/Ubuntu # Installation, maintenance, monitoring and troubleshooting of Operating Systems, Web Server Applications (Apache), DNS Servers, mail servers (EXIM/Postfix)
• Standard system and internet services and protocols # Shared Web Hosting with CPanel, Mysql, etc
• Security best practices and implementation of System Security
• VMWare/SAN environment
• Agile environment working with tools such as Jira and Confluence (Scrum Methodology)

• VMware (hardware, software, configuration, deployments, high availability, optimization)
• HPUX (hardware, software, patch management, support)
• Red Hat/Oracle Enterprise Linux (hardware, software, configuration, deployment, support)
• Enterprise Unix/Linux environment monitoring, troubleshooting, assistance and support
• Enterprise hardware, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting and escalation
• Enterprise backup management using HP Data Protector and relevant backup components
• Assist various departments from Analytics(IBM SPSS) to Oracle Products/Tiers (DBA,WLS,OHS,SQL) with understanding, deploying, automating, scaling, optimization, troubleshooting and escalation to relevant vendors and/or partners
• Enterprise SAN storage management, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting and escalation (HP 3PAR, HP EVA, HP P2000)
• Enterprise auditing and licensing management and compliance

• - IT Management, Administration, Support -
• Networking (assistance, operational infrastructure, improvements, expansion, administration)
• Security (identify risk, reacts to breaches, policies)
• Internal systems (oversees, disaster recovery, expert support)
• Management (improvements, contact, client satisfaction)
• Telephony (oversees and improvements)
• Help-desk administration (oversees, incident response, support)
• Asset management (vendor relationships and management)
• Communication (meetings, delegation, liaison)
• Research and development (sourcing, implementation, deployment)
• Team development (assistance, encourage, training, responsibilities)
• - Bureau Management, Administration, Support -
• Management (improvements, assistance, client satisfaction)
• Communication (support and liaison)
• Administration (data capturing, auditing, pre and post installation configuration)
• Help-desk administration (oversees, incident response, support)
• Internal systems (oversees, improvements, support)
• Operations (oversees, data provisioning, reports, maintenance, assist)

• Hardware and software consulting
• IT Support and sales services
• Web hosting, design and development

• Telephony recording products preparations
• Electronics technician and manufacturing
• IT Support
• Gopher
• Odd duties

Grade: Undergraduate (WIP)