Summary
Date Posted: 24th May 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced persons for the demanding position of Senior System Engineer. of the Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU).
RENU is a not-for-profit organisation that encourages ICT-enabled collaboration among Ugandan researchers and the higher education community by linking linen: to their peers and partners, nationally within Uganda, regionally within Africa and internationally to the global Research and Education (H&E) communities..

Duties and Responsibilities
As Senior Systems Engineer, the person will plan, install and maintain all RENU services and data centers, participate actively in the planning and delivery of REN services needed by member institutions over and above connectivity, participate in capacity development activities for member institutions, and contribute to innovation tor new sen/ices needed by member institutions.

 Experience
• At least 2 years oi experience with 0penStack and other Cloud infrastructure implementations.
• Knowledge of federated identity technologies and architectures.
• Experience with open source relational databases, such as MySOL and PostgreSQL.
• Programming experience in any two of Python, PHP, Java, Perl, Ruby.
• Linux shell scripting.
• Mail sewer configuration and administration using open source tools.
• Web sewer administration.
• Knowledge of LAMP installations and configurations tor website hosting.
• Knowledge and experience in open source monitoring tools such as Cacti, Nagios, LibreNMS and Nfsen.
• Knowledge on SSL certificates and deployments.
• Knowledge on security implementations for all systems listed above.

Qualifications
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Electrical/ Telecommunications Engineering.
• A Master's degree in the above fields is an added advantage.
• At least two certifications in Linux.
• A certification in database administration and management is an added advantage.

Job Skills: Not Specified
Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

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Job application procedure
Send application to: hr@renu.ac.ug
The application should be accompanied by a complete up-to-date CV and copies of academic documents contactable reference.
The cover letter should be addressed to: The Human Resource Manager, Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU)
Closing date: Friday 7th June, 2019 at 5pm Uganda time.
Only shortlisted candidates will he communicated to.

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