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Job Title:  Unix Systems Officer

Organisation: Housing Finance Bank

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Manager IT Infrastructure

About US:

Housing Finance Bank, is a Commercial Bank and the leading provider of housing finance solutions with a vision to be the preferred consumer and business bank with a focus on housing finance.

Job Summary:   The Unix Systems Officer is responsible for setting up and maintaining the bank’s UNIX environment on all platforms. The officer is responsible for analyzing capacity usage, resolving problems, providing reports, and providing IT infrastructure advisory setup concepts.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Installs, configures, and maintains UNIX operating systems in line with the Bank’s operating policies and procedures.
• Monitors and maintains resources of the UNIX server environment. This is for the production and disaster recovery site.
• Actively and effectively resolves any UNIX OS issues with the support of service providers, ensuring that the IT environment is operating according to set standards for any application.
• Provide resource utilization reports and make budget requirements of any upgrades.
• Manage IT security Access rights to all UNIX and Windows operating systems.
• Support the application teams in generating and managing the Bank’s SSL Certificates on all servers.
• Implement and fix any other IT infrastructure-related issues.
• Implement approved changes control and customizations in the systems.
• Participate in the delivery of core applications training.
• Infrastructure capacity planning and management
• Provide out-of-hours support in response to incidents on an on-call rota basis.
• Support, configuration, planning, documentation, and projects for VMware and Oracle VM, OVM, and KVM virtual environment

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a Bachelor of Computer Science / Information Technology / Computer Engineering / Electrical and Electronic Engineering or its equivalent
• Open-Source Certified System Administrator level 1 & 2
• Red Hat / Solaris certified Systems Administrator
• ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service management
• CCNA
• VMware certification or equivalent
• Hands-on experience with enterprise-class server software and hardware.
• Experience of 2-4 years in a related field
• Operational knowledge of Oracle and MySQL.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools
• Ability to use professional knowledge to analyse information and resolve problems.
• Microsoft Windows / Unix server administration
• Computer Hardware Repair and maintenance
• Experience in WAN/LAN Networking skills
• Microsoft Windows/Unix Desktop OS installation, troubleshooting and administration.
• Service Desk Support
• IT infrastructure-related experience is an added advantage.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively, interpret documents, understand procedures, write reports and correspondence; speak clearly to third parties and employees.

Business Behaviours

• Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills
• Consistently approaches work with energy and positive, constructive attitude.
• Superior organization and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Strong attention to detail and skills in monitoring
• Positive and constructive attitude towards work
• Proven initiative, good judgement and confidence
• Ability to meet deadlines without close supervision.
• Total commitment to quality and attention to detail
• Impeccable integrity
• Team player and leadership skills.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified candidates should submit their applications with a recent CV, copies of all academic transcripts, certificates and testimonials, daytime telephone contact, postal and email address and three competent referees to Chief Human Resources Officer Housing Finance Bank, Investment House 4 Wampewo Avenue, Kololo. Uganda

Please take note that all applications should be sent by email to Recruitment@housingfinance.co.ug. Do Not Hand Deliver Your Application.

ONLY shortlisted candidates will be contacted and any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.

Guidelines for submitting Documents

Ensure that all your documents are scanned and submitted in 1 single batch using the following order:

• Application letter
• Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Academic Documents and Certificates

The maximum document size is 10 MB

One should have been in their current position for at least two years and above.

Please indicate the name of the position you are applying for in the subject.

Deadline: 30th November 2023 at 5:00pm

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