Unix Administrators
Job Ref: I.T 15/2014
The Position:Reporting to the Senior Manager, Banking Systems
Operations, the role will ensure the system health and optimization of the core
banking system infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities- Administer the T24 HP/UX Unix servers and the
High availability clustering solution and ensure system availability
within the required RTO (Recovery time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point
Objective)
- Installation, configuration and upgrading of
T24 application environments as and when required.
- Perform T24 application tuning and performance
monitoring
- Coordinate extraction of business/MIS reports
and ensure distribution to relevant 3rd party systems such as Data
warehouse in addition to availing the same to respective business units
- Administer the T24 data storage and clustering
infrastructure and formulating disk space management policies
- T24 application tuning and performance
monitoring.
- Upgrades, patch release implementation and
software development into the production environment.
- Provide T24 test environments on request to
various departments in the bank.
- Troubleshoot, escalate and follow up
resolution of errors warnings generated by the T24 Unix servers, T24
application, NetApp disk storage and the backup system.
- Coordinate with the T24 operators in resolving
T24 operational and COB related issues
The Person
- A Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology
or related field from a University recognized by Commission for University
Education. An MBA will be an added advantage
- Must possess certification in Unix
administration
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of and high
regard for T24 as a business delivery channel for both bank corporate and
retail customers.
- Effective leadership skills
- Exceptional planning and organizing skills
- Excellent problem analysis and attention to
detail
- A minimum of 4 years’ experience in I.T, with
hands on experience in:
- T24 application management & close of
business processes.
- Web Sphere and Message Queuing setups.
- Systems development life cycle.
- Oracle administration
The above position is demanding for
which the bank will provide a competitive package for the successful
candidates.
Oracle Database Administrator
Job Ref: IT 16/2014
Job Ref: IT 16/2014
The Position: Reporting to the Senior Manager, Data Base
Administration, and the successful candidate is expected to ensure the health
and optimization of all oracle data based applications
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and support high performance, highly
available and mission critical database platforms for the Core Banking and
other systems.
- Review and design database structures to
support business requirements including logical and physical database
modeling.
- Install, configure and maintain database
instances, creates various database objects, create users with appropriate
roles and levels of security.
- Implement database security policies that are
consistent with laid security guidelines.
- Implement and perform database backup and
recovery strategies that meet recovery and availability requirements.
- Implement best practices and incorporate them
in DBA procedures.
- Manage and support Enterprise Data warehouse
including the development of reports from the data warehouse
platform
The Person
- A Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology
or related field from a University recognized by Commission for University
Education. An MBA will be an added advantage
- Must possess Oracle OCP certification
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of Oracle
RAC and Oracle Data Guard
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of Unix
- A team player with Effective leadership skills
- A minimum of 5 years’ hands on experience in
Oracle administration
- A minimum of 3 years’ hands on experience in
- Data warehousing, data mining and business
intelligence
- Unix platforms HP/Solaris/IBM AIX
- Knowledge of administration in the following
areas will be an added advantage
- T24 core banking systems
- Web sphere and MQ series
- Self-driven with highly innovative skills
The above position is demanding for
which the bank will provide a competitive package for the successful
candidates.
If you believe you can clearly
demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please submit your
application with a detailed CV, stating your current position, remuneration
level e-mail and telephone contacts quoting the job title/reference in the
subject field to recruitment@kcb.co.ke
To be considered your application must be received by Sept. 26, 2014.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
To be considered your application must be received by Sept. 26, 2014.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.