Job Description
Position: Systems Administrator
Focus
This individual participates in technical research and development
to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure.
This individual ensures that system hardware, operating systems,
software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values,
enabling staff, volunteers, and Partners.
This individual will assist project teams with technical issues in the Initiation and Planning phases of our standard Project Management Methodology.
This individual will assist project teams with technical issues in the Initiation and Planning phases of our standard Project Management Methodology.
These activities include the definition of needs, benefits, and
technical strategy; research & development within the project life-cycle;
technical analysis and design; and support of operations staff in executing,
testing and rolling-out the solutions.
Participation on projects is focused on smoothing the transition
of projects from development staff to production staff by performing operations
activities within the project life-cycle.
Job Duties
- Install
new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals,
services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with
standards and project/operational requirements.
- Develop
and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
- Contribute
to and maintain system standards.
- Research
and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for
system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our
resources and provide economies of scale.
- Perform
daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all
hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system
and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as
backups.
- Perform
regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions
- Perform
daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system
data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes
or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as
necessary.
- Perform
regular file archival and purge as necessary.
- Create,
change, and delete user accounts per request.
- Repair
and recover from hardware or software failures.
- Apply
OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative
tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary.
- Maintain
operational, configuration, or other procedures.
- Perform
periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
- Perform
ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization
as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.
- Maintain
data center environmental and monitoring equipment.
- Upgrades
system by conferring with vendors and services; developing, testing,
evaluating, and installing enhancements and new software.
Knowledge and skills
- Windows
Server OS & Linux OS
- IIS
& WAMP
- Microsoft
Exchange, Active Directory, Enkompass cPanel
- Virtualization
Educational Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor
degree, with a technical major, such as engineering or computer science.
- Systems
Administration/System Engineer certification in Linux and Microsoft.
- Three
to four year’s system administration experience.
Interested persons should send their resume to
alfreds@tracesoft.co.ke