Systems Administrator Careers at International Medical Group (IMG)

  Information Technology (IT) and Data Jobs in Uganda, Uncategorized
Organisation: International Medical Group (IMG)
Duty Station: IHK, Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: IT Manager
About IMG:
International Medical Group (IMG)
constitutes an NGO, International Medical Foundation (IMF), a hospital,
International Hospital Kampala (IHK), a health management organization (IMC)
with a network of clinics upcountry and in Kampala. IMG is committed to making
a difference to healthcare in Uganda through education, innovation, applied
research, community outreaches.
Job Summary: The Systems Administrator
will be primarily responsible for the installation/configuration, operation,
maintenance of Linux & some Windows servers their hardware, software and
related infrastructure monitoring and managing. The primary role is to ensure
smooth running and availability of the applications on the servers. This
position employs the skills of the associate to implement, maintain, and
support a variety of applications and systems.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
  • Conduct
    daily systems monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all
    hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system
    and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs.
  • Perform
    regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions, also
    enrolling users and maintaining system security.
  • Perform
    daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system
    data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes
    or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as
    necessary.
  • Monitoring
    and management of OS, system hardware and applications performance.
  • Assist in
    upgrades of server OS.
  • Monitor
    and Maintain Linux and UNIX Operating System software.
  • Provide
    technical support to the Linux servers in a virtualized environment
    (Proxmox VE)
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The
    Systems Administrator should possess a good bachelor’s degree in Computer
    Science, Information Technology or a related field.
  • At least
    one to two years of system administration experience.
  • Possess
    excellent  inter-personal and
    communication skills
  • Ability
    to write basic system and user documentation.
  • Ability
    to work independently and resolve problems / issues;
  • High IT
    skill level with most Unix commands and utilities.
  • Good
    understanding and familiarity with most Linux system administration tools
    and tasks (Preferably Debian/Ubuntu).
  • Basic
    understanding of the functioning of the Linux operating system:
    understands job control, hard and soft linking, the difference between
    shell programs and kernel programs.
  • Possess
    the ability to perform most security audits, and protect the system
    against intrusion.
  • Familiarity
    with fundamental networking/distributed computing environments and
    concepts.
  • Can configure
    NFS and NIS, use nslookup or research to check information in the DNS.
  • Proficient
    at Windows systems administration.
  • Ability
    to write functional scripts in an administrative language (shell, Perl,
    Tk)
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested
candidates are required to send their applications including an updated CV
(including three professional referees), application letters to:
The Human Resource Manager
International Medical Group,
Plot 4686 St. Barnabas Rd, Kisugu, 
Namuwongo,
P.O. Box 8177, Kampala. Uganda
E-mail: hr@img.co.ug
Deadline: 4th February, 2014

For
More Ugandan Jobs, Please Visit https://www.theugandanjobline.com   or
find us on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/UgandanJobline

Related Jobs