Hardware & Network Support Specialist

Lets Write Africa's Story Together!

Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.

Job Description

This role is individually accountable for supporting the smooth running of the production applications and infrastructure.

• Setting up, developing, maintaining, documenting, and enforcing system standards

• Design and implement new solutions and improve resilience of the current environment

• Maximise infrastructure performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting, scheduling upgrades, and collaborating with network architects on network optimization

• Undertake infrastructure fault investigations in local and wide area environments

• Secure infrastructure systems by establishing and enforcing policies, and defining and monitoring access

• Report infrastructure operational status by gathering and prioritizing information and managing projects

• Upgrade infrastructure equipment to the latest releases

• Provide remote support to on-site/off-site engineers and end users/customers

• Undertake capacity management and audit of infrastructure devices in the offices and within data centres

• Liaise with project management teams, third-line engineers and service desk engineers on a regular basis

• Configuring user workstations and managing infrastructure inventory

• Implementation and management of AWS infrastructure and integrations

• Provide disaster recovery capabilities for all critical platforms and applications.

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Skills

Accountability, Capacity Management, Design, Disaster Recovery (DR), End Users, Infrastructure Management (IM), Network Optimization, Network Support, Performance Monitoring, Remote Support, Service Desk (Inactive), Teamwork, Troubleshooting, Waterfall Model

Competencies

Collaborates

Communicates Effectively

Drives Results

Ensures Accountability

Plans and Aligns

Tech Savvy

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science (BCoSc) (Required), Bachelor of Engineering (BEng): Information Technology And Computer Science: Information Technology Management (Required)

Closing Date

29 July 2026 , 23:59

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