Thursday, April 11, 2013

System Administrator Job in Kenya

Are you looking to take your career to the next level? 
Our client is a fast growing enterprise in provision of digital content and mobile commerce experience for the African Market. 
We invite you to be part of that growth. 
We seek to recruit pro-active and self - driven individuals to fill the positions below;
System Administrator
A System Administrator main role will be to build, operate and maintain system and application Uptime and QoS.

Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Database replication.
  • System backups
  • Application/systems tuning and configuration
  • Application/system monitoring and reporting
  • Applications/systems failover and redundancy
  • Establishing and testing disaster recovery policies and procedures
  • Manage and document system configurations
  • Defining and implementing system and operational policies and procedures
Qualification and Experience:
  • A Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or similar
  • System Administration, Developing Standards, LAN Knowledge
  • Knowledge of company systems and applications
  • Systems: Windows, Cisco Systems, UNIX, Linux,
  • Programming languages C+, Java
  • Responsibilities may require evening and weekend work in response to needs of the systems being supported.
Required Skills
  • Strong coordination, organization, and communication abilities
  • Works well individually or in a group setting
  • Ability to provide a range of systems training
  • Ability to develop and write systems and applications documentation and guides for users.
  • Ability to develop systems solutions for operational problems.
  • Ability to work under pressure and time constraints
  • Successfully presents technical information
Key Performance Indicators / Deliverables
  • Reducing number of System and application – (in house application) related issues.
  • Identification of major (System + applications ) related issues in 5min
  • Develop automatic resolutions.
  • <=50% utilization of resources in all servers
  • Application failover in case of failure
  • Weekly and monthly reports, by C.O.B every Friday, First Friday of every month
Interested candidates are requested to submit their CVs and a convincing cover letter to pdc.recruitment@gmail.com indicating the job title applied for by 10th May 2013. 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.