Systems Administrator I at Kenya Power
Kenya Power
- Kenya
- Permanent
- Full-time
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- Location: Kenya
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- Job type: Full-Time
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- Implement policies, procedures, and technologies to ensure application system security through secure system access, monitoring, control, and routine security evaluations.
- Perform standard configuration, management, and maintenance tasks for applications systems and underlying server infrastructure.
- Perform and test system configuration backups and restores to ensure system recovery from error or outage.
- Perform and test data backups and restores to ensure disaster recovery.
- Review and deploy application and operating system releases and vendor-supplied patches according to best practices.
- Anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware and software problems on all systems.
- Monitor, test, and tune system performance; preserve and provide system log files as needed.
- Develop and implement contingency plans to guarantee systems operations during emergency situations.
- Develop and implement efficient preventative maintenance schedules for servers, consoles and peripherals.
- Participate in and support capacity planning and the development of long-term strategic goals for systems and software in conjunction with end-users and department managers
- Coordinate with network engineers and database administration functions to implement systems that utilize industry best practices to meet corporate objectives
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical & Electronics Engineering or related field from a recognized Institution
- System Administration or equivalent certification in Unix and Linux
- Microsoft operating system certifications will be an added advantage
- Good understanding of Oracle and MS-SQL databases
- Five (5) years relevant working experience in System Administration.
- Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining UNIX servers, networks, and clusters/server farms including cloud deployment.
- Good technical knowledge of current server, storage and network hardware and standards, including clustering, cloning, virtualization and thin provisioning /orchestration
- Hands-on hardware and software troubleshooting experience on engineered systems.
- Understanding of best practice in systems administration and trend
- Excellent planning, presentation, evaluation skills
- Creativity and innovation
- Drive for results and achievement
- Insightful, proactive and future focused
- Demonstrates high level of integrity
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