Systems Admin at SportPesa

Role
Reporting to the System Manager, the person of the Systems Admin shall be responsible for

• Scheduling and Overseeing Preventive Maintenance of the Server/System Infrastructure
• Ensure 99.99% availability of the System Infrastructure
• Serve as a Level 1 escalation for all System incidents
• Serve as part of Resolution team for System Incidents
• Ensure System documentation is updated
• Manage System Inventory and spares
• Manage Configuration of all Systems (backup configuration and application of standardized configuration templates to Systems)
• Liaise with Service Providers to ensure agreed SLAs are maintained 100%
• Continues training/certification in relevant knowledge areas
• Liaise with the ITSM/Service Delivery manager to manage projects and IT&S processes and procedures.
• Ensure System licences are valid and initiate acquisition of the same before expiry
• Management and development of Microsoft and Linux environment including: IIS, SQL Server, Apache
• Active Directory, security, replication, back-up and virtualization
• Providing support to internal and external customers
• Development and maintenance of security protocols and controls
• Maintenance and development of business continuity solutions and disaster recovery (DR, back-ups, contingency planning)
• Perform regular audits and performance monitoring of mission critical infrastructure and processes

Requirements for Systems Admin Job

Education and experience

• Degree in Computer Science/Telecommunication or related degree
• 4-6 years’ experience managing Systems running on Linux and Microsoft, Minimum 2 years hands on systems administration experience
• IT project management experience
• Experience of Window IIS technologies including configuration, administration, monitoring and troubleshooting. Windows Servers 2008 onwards; networking, DNS, load balancing and performance monitoring tools
• RHCE or equivalent
• Setup and Management of load balancing solutions (NGINX, F5, Citrix)
• Microsoft System Administration
• Mail Server Setup and Administration (MS Exchange, postfix etc )
• Strong troubleshooting skills is key
• Ability to configure and administer IIS, SQL/MySQL/Oracle DB Server and Active Directory
• Experience implementing and managing hosted or web based systems within a Windows environment
• Experience of implementation and managing high availability and rapidly scalable environments
• Internet technologies – DNS, SMTP, Proxies, Cache
• Security best practices (hardening, vulnerability scans, DMZ etc.)
• Storage and back-up methodologies
• Team Player
• Highly motivated with demonstrable enthusiasm for role
• Telco / Service Provider experience is an added advantage