Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Purpose
Provide expert to all core/ central information systems viz: (academic, research and administrative). Perform system tuning and recovery procedures for the university critical centralize systems and ensure high uptime, performance and security of the systems.

Key, Duties and Responsibilities
• Plan and coordinate ICT training requirements for staff in their respective units in line Installation, management and maintenance of application servers and related university systems
• Investigate and analyse the feasibility of system requirements and develop system specifications to prevent problems and to improve systems performance;
• Maintain operating systems, business applications and security tools;
• Evaluate related hardware and software products and make recommendations for adoption;
• Plan and recommend the redesign and configuration of operating systems and system applications;
• Implement system installations, expansion, upgrades and improvements;
• Automate tasks through scripting and adoption of software/hardware tools
• Undertake periodic internal audits of all university systems;
• Organise and schedule External system Audits;
• Provide expert support for the information system applications in the respective units;
• Participate in developing internal local software in liaison with the systems Manager;
• Backup and restore University systems;
• Analyse system logs and identify potential risk issues with University systems;
• Troubleshoot any reported problems with University systems;
• Set up and implement security policies for users of all university core systems.

Required Qualifications
• Master’s degree in Information Systems, Software Engineering or Computer Science;
• Honour’s Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Software Engineering
• An Oracle Certificate Asscociation (OCA);
• Certification in UNIX systems administration.

Experience
Minimum of three (3) years working experience in administration and management of Information Systems, open source platforms for systems, networks and databases

Skills/Competences
• Knowledge of relevant programming languages particularly for web-based systems;
• Knowledge in Systems auditing and evaluation;
• Knowledge in other relational database management (MYSQL, POSTGRESS and MS SQLServer;
• Interpersonal and Communication skills;
• Good conceptual skils;
• Ability to initiate change.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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