Systems Support Engineer

Job Category: Skilled
Job Type: 12 Months Contract
Location: Umhlanga

PREFERENCE- AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Requirements

Qualifications:

  • BSc Data Science & Microsoft SQL Qualification (Compulsory)
  • Maximo or CMMS experience preferred
  • Birt/Cognos Reporting
  • Power BI knowledge & experience
  • SharePoint administration

Experience:

  • At least 2-4-year experience in a data driven environment utilising Microsoft SQL.
  • Experience in managing, maintaining, and monitoring installed systems and infrastructure.
  • Installing, configuring, and testing operating systems, application software and system management tools.
  • Ensuring the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.

Skills:

Behavioural
  • Drive to achieve results through self and others
  • Ability to work together with the other departments to achieve the best result for the company
  • Critical thinking, take ownership and maintains high ethics standards
  • Seek, organize, and exchange information for decision making and problem solving
  • Ability to create a climate of open communication on personal and professional issues
  • Ability to work autonomously, prioritizing tasks and activities in line with business objectives
  • Quality and environmental awareness and managing according to quality standards and procedures
  • Innovation, vision, creativity, taking initiative, problem solving and decision making
  • A pro-active approach to planning and decision making
  • Ability to build effective relationships with key stakeholders
Language
  • English Language: excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
  • Afrikaans/Zulu is an advantage.
IT & Systems
  •  Computer literate: must have a high degree of skill in Business Computing Applications such as Databases, Word Processors, Spreadsheets, PowerPoint, and Enterprise Resource Planning applications (Maximo/ SAP or equivalent)

Key Responsibilities

  • Administer all installations and maintenance of Maximo, Eclipse, Sun Systems, Eta Pro, SharePoint & other business-related software.
  • Design and implementation of new applications within the systems listed above.
  • Design and configure reports (Power BI & BIRT/Cognos) extracting data from the different systems for end users.
  • Fault finding and diagnostics on all systems. Provide investigation and RCA reports for all incidents on systems.
  • Implementation of System upgrades & patches.
  • Ensuring Back-ups are being performed and available.
  • Provide end-user support and training for the different system.
  • Managing external resources.
  • Be the single point of contact for all systems.
  • Document all processes and workflows in the business systems.
  • Drawing-up training material and ensuring all training material is up to date.

Queries

For more information regarding the position, please contact:

Nolonwabo – 083 651 0569

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