The Ugandan Jobline

• Administering Unix servers: Provide system management and administrative support of the
  production network in a 24 x 7 environment.
• Storage, Backup, and Archive:  Provide management and
  administration of the data media with regard to country specific
  information archiving requirements and OUL operating standards
• Virtualization: Provide management and
  administration of the virtualization technologies.
• Mail, DNS, NMS, Proxy Applications:  Provide management and
  administration of Mail Servers, DNS Servers and Network Management System
  Servers.

• Responsible for the installation, configuration and maintenance of
  the organization’s systems and all related software.
• Maintain, tune and patch systems for optimum performance and
  security.
• Ensure changes are planned and implemented in a sound low risk
  manner with minimal system outages.
• Prepare and maintain key team support documents.
• Provide on-call support and participate in 24 x 7 roster rotation
  groups.
• Support in Service Management and Application teams in solving
  problems.
• Provide solutions architecture advice (where qualified / experienced
  to do so).
• Provide Technical Project Management (where experience and asked to
  do so).
• Offer technical support for costing solutions (hardware, software,
  and implementation labour), where experienced and / or being coached in
  doing so.
• Escalate problems and concerns to the manager.

• The Senior Systems Administrator should hold a Bachelor in IT or
  related field.
• Possession of Certification on the storage media and OS tools.
• Additional certification on Virtualization technologies.
• At least two years’ in-depth technical knowledge of Unix, Linux and
  Solaris administration, configuration and troubleshooting experiences.
• Installation, Configuration & Administration of Solaris 9,
  Solaris 10.
• High availability hands on experience (Sun Clusters), knowledge of
  Domain systems, remote console access.
• Working knowledge of NIS/NFS & TCP/IP Configuration.
• In depth understanding DNS.
• In depth understanding of all aspects of networking.
• Firewalls and security.
• Mission critical 24/7 environment.
• At least a year’s experience of systems deployment, backup and
  recovery.
• Deep knowledge on Backup and Storage Architecture.
• Virtualization technologies.
• Past experience in Telecom company or IT company is an added
  advantage.

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