Systems Engineer - Mr Price Group

Mr Price Advance supports the Mr Price Group, providing business intelligence and automation solutions across all our Divisions.

We're looking for a Systems Engineer that's focused on Azure or cloud solutions and monitoring our BI systems.

a day in your life?

• Hands-on management of enterprise cloud storage infrastructure.
• Configures, upgrades, installs and manages server and storage diagnostic, configuration and management tools (Cloud and on premise).
• Capacity Management and Planning and ensuring scalability of the server and storage environment.
• Troubleshoot and resolve software, hardware, configuration and operational problems.
• Manage and report on new implementations, lifecycle management, patch management, optimisation and service improvement initiatives.
• Work with vendor technical support to facilitate analysis of and resolution of technical issues.
• Participate in the design and engineering of secure server and storage environment and delivery of business intelligence projects.
• Follow and enforce established change management processes in alignment with ITIL.

• Ensure systems administration and documentation are kept up to date to ensure compliance with operational standards.
• Participate in business continuity and disaster recovery infrastructure planning, building, and testing.
• Configure and manage Snowflake and Tableau servers, integration between on-premises and cloud applications and Azure DevOps.
• Configure, manage, and monitor the data replication, workflow orchestration and Azure data center.

Requirement

• Grade 12
• Relevant IT Bachelor’s Degree, Diploma or Complete Microsoft Certifications (Azure Preferable)
• A minimum of 5 years in a technical role (design, implementation and maintenance of servers and storage)
• Strong knowledge of enterprise and mid-range storage, file system, cloud infrastructure and virtualisation technologies.
• Experience with and monitoring of data Replication Tools, Cloud warehousing, and Orchestration Tools
• Experience in installation, upgrade, patching of server hardware and platform software.
• Expert knowledge of hardware platforms, converged infrastructure, networking, SAN, NAS and subsystems.
• Experience in recovery design, monitoring implementation, troubleshooting, performance tuning and optimization.