Technical Engineer - NOC
Content+Cloud
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
We are the tech company with people at heart.At Advania, we believe in empowering people to create sustainable value through the clever use of technology. As one of Microsoft's leading partners in the UK, specialising in Azure, Security, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365, we have a proven track record of success in delivering transformational IT services.Position Overview:
We have an opportunity for a Technical Engineer (NOC) to join our Security & Networks team in Cape Town.Responsibilities:
Working within our Managed Services team you will assume the function of a remote IT systems administrator for a wide range of clients who have outsourced their IT support to Advania UK. This includes
- Monitoring and management of client's infrastructure and backups, including routers, firewalls, servers, and device endpoints to ensure issues are handled proactively with minimal impact on the client
- Resolving issues efficiently, identifying, and correcting trends is a key part of the role.
- Taking ownership and performing prompt and effective incident investigation applying sound problem solving methods to determine scope, urgency, and potential impact across a wide range of IT systems
- Working with internal and external stakeholders to resolve network and security tasks and vulnerability compliance
- Strong Microsoft Windows server knowledge shown in incident troubleshooting
- Good technical ability and self-awareness of when to escalate to a senior resource
- Comfortable navigation within customer Azure tenancies
- Good working evidence across the following infrastructure platforms:
- Microsoft Servers 2012 - 2019
- Cloud - O365, Azure, AWS, Mimecast
- RMM and Professional Monitoring toolsets
- Communication Platforms Teams/Skype
- Backup solutions - Veeam, DPM, Azure Site Recovery, Backup Exec
- Basic knowledge and understanding across one or more of the following technology stacks:
- Firewalls: Fortinet, Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto
- Switching: Cisco, HP, Juniper, Meraki
- WAN/LAN networking related issues: TCP/IP, DNS, SNMP, VPN