ICT Officer (SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR/DEVELOPER) JG 'K’ at Taita Taveta County Public Service Board

ICT Officer (SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR/DEVELOPER) JG ‘K’ 

IT Job Responsibilities 

• Oversee administration of County Government of Taita Taveta and its services including planning, designing, installation and maintenance of web server, proxy server, DNS, FTP, Mail and any other relevant server services;
• Design ,Develop and implement application systems;
• Design and Implementation of security systems e.g. firewalls and gateways;
• Perform daily system 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 such as backups;
• Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions;
• Perform daily back up operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or 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;
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities, configure/add new services as necessary;
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required, configure CPU, memory and disk pertitions as required;
• Configuring CPU, memory and disk partitions as required;
• Monitor the quality of document management services;
• Ensure that County Government of Taita Taveta records are digitized as appropriate;
• Develop and monitor/review County Government of Taita Taveta data and information management strategy including data protection data consistency and record management policy;
• Ensure compliance with adopted recognized data security standards;
• Facilitate access to Government data by recognized users;
• To liaise with  technical staff to ensure technical measures are implemented to conform to information security requirements and access rights;
• Monitor and report on trends of disclosures including data access/protection complaints proposing agreeing and implementing corrective actions;
• Produce information data and statistics including the analysis of such across a range of subjects required;
• Assist to facilitate and regulate the design implementation and use of ICTs in the Public Service;
• Assist in the design and maintenance of formal Government Enterprise Architecture which is the main design document that specifies the function, scope and organization of Government;
• ICT systems and infrastructure; and any other duties as may be assigned from time to time. 

Qualifications For IT Job  

• Be a Kenyan citizen;
• A University degree in Information and Communication Technology ( ICT) or in any other ICT related discipline from a recognized institution;
• Microsoft professional certification preferable;
• Good in reporting especially with BI and crystal reports is an added advantage;
• At least two(2) years relevant experience in active software development environment;
• Good communication skills and problem solving skills
• Planning and organization skills and people management experience;
• Strong grasp of security principles and how they apply to E-commerce applications;
• Analytical skills; able to evaluate information and situations and take sound decisions;
• Project management skills and ability to prioritize;
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills;
• Proven leadership skills.