Officer: Service Monitoring Agent

Location: Centurion

Salary: R434 656.00 per annum, negotiable

Purpose of the Job

Reporting to the Lead: Service Monitoring, the successful incumbent is responsible for incident management, request fulfilment, event management and monitoring of the assigned critical applications and Infrastructure using various monitoring tools and techniques.

Duties & Responsibilities

Systems Monitoring and Event Management

• Configure and manage performance thresholds on assigned infrastructure components.
• Asses the true states of systems instantly and receive alerts at certain thresholds so that they can be actioned.
• Monitor the health of assigned IT Services and Systems
• Logging, tracking, escalating, communicating, and closing critical alerts and incidents.
• Provide data on components or service trends that can be used to optimise the performance of IT services.
• Perform trends analysis on events received.

Incident Management and Request Fulfilment

• Logging, tracking, escalating, communicating, and closing of incidents and Service requests.
• Incident’s detection and recording, initial user support, investigation and diagnosis, resolution and recovery of service, incident closure, incident ownership, monitoring and communication.
• Prioritisation of calls or speedy response on urgent matters.
• Provide assistance by trouble shooting users problems.
• Utilise ICT knowledge base to help Users step by step.
• Monitor incidents/request according to priority. Knowledge Base/ Library.
• Ensure that information captured from the 2nd line is relevant to call/ problems logged.
• Manage the integrity of information captured.
• Constantly update of the knowledge database.
• Maintain a Knowledge Library of incidents resolved.

Stakeholder Management

• Assist with inquiries and requests for information from both internal and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to the maintenance of relationships with vendors, service providers or procurement teams and ensure that all relevant procured items are invoiced and paid on time.

Reporting

• Generate regular reports on alerts and incidents reported and documented solutions developed.
• Reporting on your calls logged to measure oneself.
• Reporting on service provided by external service providers to aid in management of SLA.

Desired Experience & Qualification

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology related qualification.
• ITIL V3 Foundation will be an added advantage.
• Relevant 3 years’ experience in a Service Monitoring environment.
• Experience in utilization of the Active Directory tool.

Technical and behavioral competencies required

• Planning, organising and coordinating.
• Personal mastery.
• Judgment and decision making.
• Ethics and values.
• Client service orientation.
• Understanding of systems monitoring concepts and management.
• Ability to collate and interpret data from various monitoring tools.
• Good technical documentation skills.
• Good Communication and Telephone etiquette.
• Basic network trouble shooting skills.
• End user devices troubleshooting skills.
• Microsoft Office Applications.
• SCOM and Manage Engine.

Package & Remuneration

Total cost to company applicable to this position is minimum R434 656.00 per annum, negotiable.

NB: “RAF offers Total Employment Cost packages with no additional contributions from the Employer, successful candidates are required to structure their packages in a manner that will suit their needs”.

Interested?

• The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.
• Applicants who have not received any correspondence from us within six weeks from the closing date can consider themselves unsuccessful
• Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees.
• It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation

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