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Operating the largest fleet of ATR 72-600 series in the region. We are committed to providing affordable world class experience with value fares and unbeatable cargo rates, ensuring reliable and safe on time service to our valued customers and stakeholders\n\nSystem Administrator\n\nThe IT Division is seeking to recruit a qualified System Administrator based in Port Moresby. The L2 Data Centre System Administrator owns PNG Air's data centre and DR end to end: servers, storage, virtualisation, backup, databases and the business and enterprise applications that run on them. The role also runs Microsoft 365, Exchange and Active Directory, and keeps every certificate, licence and subscription renewed on time. It takes escalations from the Service Desk and delivers changes under change control.\n\nKey responsibilities include the following:\n\nData centre and disaster recovery\n\nOwn the end-to-end operation of the primary data centre and DR site: servers, storage, power, UPS, cooling, environmental monitoringand physical access.\n\nMaintain the DR plan, replication and failover runbooks; run DR tests at least twice a year and report RTO/RPO results.\n\nPlan capacity, hardware refresh and lifecycle for compute and storage.\n\nVirtualisation\n\nAdminister the virtualisation platform (VMware today, plus any replacement such as Hyper-V, Proxmox or Nutanix): hosts, clusters, VMs,templates, snapshots and resource allocation.\n\nLead or support the migration off the current virtualisation platform with minimal downtime.\n\nBackup and recovery\n\nRun backup and restore across servers, databases, M365 and applications, including ransomware-safe offline and tape backups.\n\nVerify backups daily and perform scheduled test restores.\n\nServers and operating systems\n\nAdminister Windows Server and Linux (Ubuntu) servers: builds, patching, hardening, performance and Docker-based workloads.\n\nManage file, print, DHCP, DNS and other core infrastructure services.\n\nDatabase management\n\nAdminister SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL: installation, upgrades, user access, backups, performance tuning and integrity checks.\n\nApplication management\n\nSupport business and enterprise applications (e.g. crew management, HRMS, finance, ITSM and in-house apps): installation, upgrades,integrations, access and vendor coordination.\n\nOwn the master register of SSL/TLS certificates, software licences, domains and subscriptions; renew all before expiry with alerts in\n\nMicrosoft 365, Exchange and Active Directory\n\nAdminister Microsoft 365 and Entra ID: users, licences, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, conditional access and MFA.\n\nManage on-prem Exchange and support migration of remaining mailboxes to Exchange Online.\n\nAdminister Active Directory: users, groups, OUs, Group Policy, AD Connect sync, DNS and domain controller health.\n\nSecurity, monitoring and change\n\nApply patches, hardening and vulnerability fixes in line with ISO/IEC 27001 controls; manage endpoint protection and privileged access.\n\nMonitor servers, storage and applications in Zabbix and act on alerts before they become outages.\n\nResolve L2 incidents within SLA, create RCA reports for P1/P2 and recurring incidents, and raise changes through Change Managementwith tested rollback plans.\n\nDocumentation and team\n\nCreate SOPs, HLDs, LLDs, runbooks and project reports; keep server, application and asset inventories accurate and audit-ready.\n\nCoach L1 and graduate team members through hands-on knowledge transfer; 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