Network Administrator

Our client is a well-established company that provides electronic funds technology solutions – is looking for a suitable person to fill the above position.

Please send your CV in word format. Also provide your current salary and benefits details!

The successful candidate will join a team responsible for building, maintaining, operating and improving secure local area networks that enable and wide area networks that provide redundant, secure access for the company continuously available, real time processing services, whether in data centres, or on-premise with clients throughout Africa. This involves working with products from Juniper, Cisco, Ubiquiti, and VMWare, and technologies such as WLAN, L2 and L3 connections, switching and virtual switching, site-to-site VPNs using GRE and IPSec, Dynamic VPNs, BGP, OSPF, NAT, PAT, Internet Access Control, Firewalling, and VoIP.

This role requires:

• Responding to, resolving and closing tickets for maintenance tasks, change management and routine activities;
• Designing, building, maintaining and extending LANs and WANs which are fit for use and purpose in accordance with Company standards and baselines;
• Maintaining and evolving those standards and baselines in response to changes in the IT landscape, adoption of new products and technologies, or to cater for vulnerability management;
• Following runbooks for routine daily, weekly, monthly, etc operations activities, and evolving the runbooks as necessary for continuous improvement or in response to changes in architecture and technologies;
• Maintenance of documentation and records of activity whether they be text documents, network diagrams, or information in OSS such as IPAM and other inventory systems;
• Planning and executing changes in accordance with company Change Management policy and procedures;
• Participating in Capacity Planning work;
• Participating in Vulnerability Management through remediations and standards-based practices;
• Contributing to planning for proposals, quotations and new solution designs.
• Completing timesheets or other required records that enable effective billing and costing;
• Understanding and complying with all Company policies, processes and procedures, including those for Information Security and Performance Management;
• Research, development and self-improvement;
• Working as part of a distributed team comprising other Network Administrators as well as Systems Administrators and LOB application specialists;
• Diagnosing and solving routing and connectivity problems and performance issues;
• Working with product vendors as needed to troubleshoot, upgrade or replace systems when required;
• Ensuring data protection and overall integrity through security practices, documented and tested backup strategies, redundancies and business continuity plans;
• Participating in audit remediation processes, as required;
• Participating in meetings and performing other duties as assigned by management;
• Some regional travel.

Candidates should:

• Have at least 3 years’ experience with performing most of the requirements described above;
• Be a dependable team member, attentive to detail, capable of meticulously accurate work, and have a service-oriented mind set;
• Have at least one of the following certifications (or better):  JNCIS-SEC, JNCIS-ENT;
• Have at least one of the following certifications (or better):  CCNP: Routing and Switching, CCNP: Security;
• Understand at least basic administration of Windows and Linux systems and how it relates to networking;
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills;
• Be fluent in using common applications such as Word, Excel, and Visio;
• Have a clean police record and a valid passport;
• Experience working in or with financial institutions would be an advantage;
• Be familiar with Information Security (ISO27001). Familiarity with working in accordance with PCI DSS would be an advantage;
• Be available to work at times outside of normal business hours.

Salary Negotiable

Email CVs to Mirriam Dzapasi: mirriam@valcol.co.zw