Purpose of Role
To manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure. Installing, configuring, testing
and maintaining operating systems, application software and system management tools. Ensuring
the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
Key Performance Areas & Indicators
Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure
to ensure highest levels of availability
- Monitoring tooling, drilling into transaction details and able to identify possible issues.
Maintain security, back up and redundancy
strategies
- Give feedback and implement security, backup, and redundancy strategies defined by more
senior colleagues
Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system
efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks
- Be comfortable with automation & orchestration tools to write and maintain basic scripts to
increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time.
Participate in the design of information and operational
support systems
- Participate in the design of information and operational support systems
Provide 2nd and 3rd level suppory – Liase with vendors and
other IT personnel for problem resolution
- Provide 2nd and 3rd level support - Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem
resolution
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Ability to manage ambiguity & time horizons
- Analytical skills
- Structured Query Language (SQL)
- Relational Database Management Systems experience
- Coding / Scripting concepts
- Release Engineering
- Infrastructure architecture ("- AWS Environment (VPC, Subnets, Instances, etc.)
- Security practices in place
- Infrastructure, Image Configuration & Management tools
- Kubernetes, Terraform, Chef etc.
- Bachelor’s degree required, with a major in a quantitative subject
- 3 years of experience in an software engineering role
To apply for this awesome opportunity please send us your CV (maximum 3
pages) and
portfolio to: recruitme@travelstart.com.
The reference
for this opportunity is “Intermediate Systems Engineer”. Please insert this
into the subject
line of your
email application. Any applicants not meeting the minimum requirements will not receive a
response. Please
note
that we reserve the right to amend, freeze the role or not hire. The final appointment will be
at the
discretion
of Travelstart.
Travelstart is committed to transformation and redressing of past inequalities. Our employment
equity
goals will be taken into account in our selection process.
Good luck!
