Vision Institute of Professionals
Job Title: System Administrator
The System Administrator (SA)
directly reporting to the Head of ICT is responsible for the administration,
installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and
software and related infrastructure of the Institute.
Primary Responsibilities- Ensure server performance and maintain
application on servers
- Administer and maintain the operation of all
campuses local area network
- Install, configure, troubleshoot, and maintain
server-based applications running
- Back-up and restores files on servers; provide
reliable back-up procedures, and operation plans for network/server
environment; and monitor daily back up activities.
- Establish and safeguard network traffic within
all campuses’ local area networks and source off external connectivity.
- Manage access to network resources including
network accounts, mailboxes, etc.
- Manage the traffic on the network to ensure
proper allocation of resources as needed.
- Diagnose network or server malfunction and
prepare and execute solutions with minimal interruption to basic server
requirements
- Monitor and adherence to business continuity
through disaster recovery plan and other exceeded.
- Provide enterprise network security support
services on all three campuses’ firewall in a complex inter-networking
environment.
- Monitor adherence to disaster recovery plan
and other contingency plans
- Provide accurate specifications for electronic
resources related to this position
- Recommend and implement changes to improve
network security, reliability and performance
- Recommend information security policy and
procedures.
- Troubleshooting of common problems arising
with computers, printers and networking equipment
- Install new / existing servers and configure
hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories.
- Install, configure and maintain the
Institute’s resource planning systems
- Develop and maintain installation and
configuration procedures.
- Network administration, configuration and
maintenance.
- Perform daily systems monitoring, verifying
the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems
and key processes for all three campuses,
- Reviewing system and application logs, and
verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
- Performing routine audit of systems and
software
- Perform regular security monitoring to
identify any possible intrusions and Repair and recover from hardware or
software failures
- Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware
upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU,
memory, and disk partitions as required.
- Any other duties assigned.
Knowledge/Skills
- A Minimum of Diploma in IT and or Computer
Science.
- CCNA/MCSE Highly recommended
- Minimum of 2 years’ work experience in a
similar position.
- Demonstrated technical expertise
Kindly apply via email: jobs@vision.co.ke
latest by 13th February 2015
