Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, October 20, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Post Systems Administrator - Directorate Of Ict Support
Closing Date 2022-10-31
Reporting To Principal Systems Administrator
Job Purpose: Provide expert to all core/ central information systems viz: (academic, research and administrative). Perform system tuning and recovery procedures for the university critical centralize systems and ensure high uptime, performance and security of the systems.

Key, Duties and Responsibilities
1. Plan and coordinate ICT training requirements for staff in their respective units in line Installation, management and maintenance of application servers and related university systems;
2. Investigate and analyse the feasibility of system requirements and develop system specifications to prevent problems and to improve systems performance;
3. Maintain operating systems, business applications and security tools;
4. Evaluate related hardware and software products and make recommendations for adoption;
5. Plan and recommend the redesign and configuration of operating systems and system applications;
6. Implement system installations, expansion, upgrades and improvements;
7. Automate tasks through scripting and adoption of software/hardware tools;
8. Undertake periodic internal audits of all university systems;
9. Organise and schedule External system Audits;
10. Provide expert support for the information system applications in the respective units;
11. Participate in developing internal local software in liaison with the systems Manager;
12. Backup and restore University systems;
13. Analyse system logs and identify potential risk issues with University systems;
14. Trouble shoot any reported problems with University systems;
15. Set up and implement security policies for users of all university core systems.

Required Qualifications
i. Master’s degree in Information Systems, Software Engineering or Computer Science;
ii. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Software Engineering;
iii. An Oracle Certificate Association (OCA);
iv. Certification in UNIX systems administration
Experience: Minimum of three (3) years working experience in administration and management of Information Systems open source platforms for systems, networks and databases
Skills/Competences
i. Knowledge of relevant programming languages particularly for web-based systems;
ii. Knowledge in Systems auditing and evaluation;
iii. Knowledge in other relational database management systems (MYSQL, POSTGRESS and MS SQLServer);
iv. Interpersonal &communication skills;
v. Good conceptual skills
vi. Ability to initiate change
Tenure of Appointment 4-year Contract
Age Limit APPLICANTS SHOULD NOT EXCEED FIFTY-FIVE (55) YEARS OF AGE AT THE TIME OF APPLICATION.
Remuneration M6.2

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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