SARS Careers – Senior Specialist Systems Engineer

Job Description:

To be responsible for co-ordinating, programming, implementing and maintaining system architectures, including hardware, operating systems, and utilities, and related client services within the organisation and ensuring to meet service level agreements. To be responsible for identification and resolution of complex hardware and software technical problems and malfunctions related to network and related servers and makes decisions that are critical in the areas of performance analysis, problem solving, and infrastructure planning, with the potential to affect the successful execution of business transactions, ensuring a stable performance environment for the enterprise business processing system.

Job Responsibilities:

• Integrate business information, compare, analyse & produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies & inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
• Develop a single practice area in alignment with operational activity and procedural frameworks and ensure tactical implementation.
• Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
• Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; best practice implementation solutions.
• Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice area and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
• Plan for value-added, continuous practice & system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
• Makes decisions that are critical in the areas of performance analysis, problem solving, and infrastructure planning, with the potential to affect the successful execution of business transactions.
• Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes & systems across an internal value chain.
• Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area’s practice.
• Proactively researches and locates necessary tools and processes to identify and proactively avert troublesome trends as they develop.
• Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans
• Advising on programming, implementation and maintaining system architectures, including hardware, operating systems, and utilities, and related client services within the enterprise
• Advise on the identification and resolution of high-level hardware and software technical problems and malfunctions related to network and related servers

Job Requirements:

• Storage Knowledge
• Redhat Enterprise Linux
• Redhat Openshift
• Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server
• SuSE Linux
• Kubernetes
• X86_64, ppc64, ARM Hardware knowledge
• IBM AIX
• Mainframe

Qualification & Experience:

• Experience in working with Redhat, SuSE and Ubuntu systems.
• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND Relevant IT Qualification (s) / Certification (s), and 8-10 years’ experience in an IT engineering environment AND additional requirements specified in Min Functional requirements, where applicable.
• Knowledge of Linux Systems Engineering and Architecture including modern Docker, OpenShift, Kurbenetes and Cloud technologies
• Relevant Bachelor’s Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in IT or related field with 8-10 years’ experience an IT engineering environment, of which 5+ years ideally at operational specialist level.

Job Details:

Company: South African Revenue Service – SARS

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Pretoria, Gauteng, SA

Application Deadline: N/A

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