Systems Administrator – Nairobi – Cellulant Corporation

The System Administrator role is to ensure that all Cellulant Operating System Stack & External application / Tools are Optimized and Maintain uptime as per Cellulant’s SLA.

This role ensures the integrity of Cellulant’s Systems.

Responsibilities:
Systems Design, Planning & Setup.
Capacity Planning
Systems Architecture Design
Systems Setup, tuning & Configurations
System resilience & Failover Design & Planning
Systems backup
Catalogue System backups
Scheduling of backups
Verifying & Testing of Backups
System monitoring.
Setup & Configuring Systems monitoring tools
Administration of the Monitoring tools
Systems Utilization & Capacity Monitoring
Systems SLA tracking
System Replication, fail over and redundancy.
Replication verification
Schedule replications
Perform Systems failover Drills
Setup Systems Redundancy
System Documentation.
Maintain Systems Inventory
Systems Architecture Diagrams
Maintain & Review Old documentations
Systems configuration Documentation
Systems tool documentation
Defining and implementing Policies and Procedures.
Define & implement Systems Design policy
Define & implement Systems Setup policy
Define & implement Systems Access Policy
Define & implement Systems Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
Systems troubleshooting & problem resolution.
Fault diagnosis
Problem resolution
Liaise with service providers for problem resolution
Follow up on Systems Reason for Outage with MNO’s & Partners

Required skills:
Degree in IT, Computer Science or related fields of study.
A minimum of 3 years’ experience in Linux Systems Administration environment.
Exposure in design and Capacity Planning for Web Service Systems Environment.
Experience in backend Shell Scripting e.g. Bash, SH, TSH e.t.c
Experience in Managing and administration of at least 1 database systems e.g. MySql (Prefered), Oracle, Postgresql, SQlite, MS-SQL e.t.c
Experience in data and database design standards and processes
Experience in customer engagement and Issue resolution.
Experience in Office Tools for Reporting, publishing and presentation preparation. In depth understanding of spreadsheet manipulation and reporting.

What do we offer you?
When working at Cellulant*, you can expect to work on a diverse range of problems, with inspiring and creative colleagues.

You will have ample opportunities for growth and career development, and we highly value continuous learning.

We offer you a challenging position in which you will be rewarded for performance.

Apply now!
Are you interested in this position and do you meet the minimum requirements?

Apply by sending an e-mail with your CV and a convincing cover letter to Jobs@cellulant.com

The selection process entails an oral interview stage, followed by a case study presentation and a final interview.

The deadline for application is 3rd April, 2015

Due to the high volume of applications received only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Do you have questions about this vacancy?
Visit our website at www.cellulant.com

Please do not hesitate to contact us by e-mail or telephone: jobs@cellulant.com or 0202606696.

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