ICT Officer at Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD)

a) Duties and Responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail the following:

1. Monitor the Institute’s backup, virus protection and security procedure, note risks to ICT systems and suggest precautions

2. Back up files and archiving materials where appropriate and ensuring that copyright and data protection laws are upheld

3. Manage and control key web portals of the Institute:- KICD website, Elimika and Kenya Education Cloud and ensure their integrity, accuracy and security backup is up to date;

4. Respond to ICT support requests in a timely fashion to ensure minimum disruption to staff at all times;

5. Install, configure and maintain the acceptable standards for server installations and applications;

6. Support, maintain and monitor all networked, software and communication servers in the KICD intranet; and

7. Ensure uptime of the google corporate E-mail server and Internet request for the staff and other stakeholders

b) Requirement for Appointment For appointment to this grade an applicant must have:

(i) Diploma in Information technology/computer science or higher with at least 2 years experience directly related work experience

(ii) Hands on professional experience with Enterprise class firewalls (Huawei firewalls, cyber roam firewalls, CISCO ASA), routers and network switchers;

(iii) Working knowledge of network security, intrusion detection systems, authentications mechanisms, encryption technologies, and networking protocols including SMPT,HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, AND SNMP; and

(iv) Professional certification in either vendor specific or industry standards will be an added advantage.