System Administrator - Civil Construction
Location: Nairobi
Salary: Open
Our Client an international construction company that specializes in large
scale housing and commercial building, construction of roads, tunnels, bridges,
airports and other infrastructure related projects seeks to recruit a Systems
administrator who will be responsible for effective provisioning,
installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and
software and related infrastructure.
Duties and
Responsibilities:
System Administration
Engineering and Provisioning
- Engineering
of SA-related solutions for various project and operational needs.
- Install
new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals,
services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with
standards and project/operational requirements.
- Install
and configure systems such as supports GIS infrastructure applications or
Asset Management applications.
- 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.
- Participate
in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation
within the infrastructure.
Operations and Support
- 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.
- Provide
Tier III/other support per request from various constituencies.
Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
- Repair
and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and
communicate with impacted constituencies.
Maintenance
- 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.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor
Degree in Computer Science
- Proven
Network Administration skills
- Proven
Microsoft SQL Server Administration skills
- Proven
windows servers and Windows OS Administration skills
- Over 3
years of practical working experience in a similar role
- Must be
30 years and above
- Additional
skills: MicrosoftAccess, Microsoft Office Administration, Programming
Skills
- Additional
Certificates: MCSA, MSCE, CCNA
If you meet the above requirements send your CV only, to
jobs@corporatestaffing.co.ke, indicating the title System Administrator – Civil
Construction on the subject line before 26th September, 2014
We do not charge for interviews.
We do not charge for interviews.
Kindly indicate your last salary on your CV.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.