Vacancy: Systems Administrator
Summary: Our client is an international health and
wellness company dealing with Health products in the range of: Skin care, Home
care, Food and Health fitness equipment.
The system administrator shall be responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, maintenance, performance, security and availability of systems hardware, software and related infrastructure.
Key
Responsibilities
- User
accounts management, manage the email web server as well as internet
service
- Determines
and initiates appropriate and immediate actions needed to restore normal
services with minimal down time.
- Investigates
recurring and related operating system failures/inefficiencies by
reviewing system logs, dumps and other information
- Support
server, network and desktop hardware, software and applications.
- Train
end users with simple network troubleshooting techniques.
- Assess
and recommend appropriate security tools and products.
- Perform
tracking and reporting of information systems audit issues.
- Contribute
to and maintain system standards.
- 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.
- Upgrades
system by conferring with vendors and services; developing, testing,
evaluating, and installing enhancements and new software.
- Install
new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals,
services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with
standards and project/operational requirements.
Education and relevant skills
- A
Bachelors Degree Computer Science, Computer Engineering, ICT, IT or
related field
- CCNP
qualification
- 3-4
years experience in Systems Administration
- Sound
business ethics, including the protection of proprietary and confidential
information
- Demonstrated
outstanding level of professionalism in providing administrative support,
including ability to exercise good judgment, discretion, tact, and
diplomacy
How to Apply:
Send your application
including a cover letter indicating your desire to work with our client; a
detailed CV highlighting relevant experience, details of current and expected
salary, a daytime phone contact, email address, and the names of three
professional referees by close of business Friday 22nd August 2014
Adept Systems
Management Consultants
P O Box 6416,
Adept Systems
Management Consultants
P O Box 6416,
Nairobi, GPO 00100
Email: recruit@adeptsystems.co.ke
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Please note that we do
not charge fees for receiving or processing job applications.