System Administrator

About FMFB-A:

As a background, FMFB-A started its operation in 2004 and is part of the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM), which has financial institutions operating in different countries throughout the world. It is affiliated with the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a group of development agencies working in health, education, culture and rural economic development.

Job Summary:

The system administrator will work on a wide variety of technologies. System Administrator will provide technical and engineering expertise in the areas of systems-related project planning, design, and engineering of systems, including system performance management, security audit and remediation, and performs other related duties as assigned.

Job Details:

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for secure design of systems and security baselines,
• Solves complex problems and takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions,
• Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations,
• Works with multiple platforms, conducting performance tuning, capacity planning, detailed monitoring and reporting – more engineering work and less day-to-day configuration work,
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot, new and existing servers, storages, application and firewalls,
• Maintain high availability (HA) vCenter Server, vSphere Operations Management, VMWare, vSphere clusters, VMware update manger, virtual distributed Switch,
• Identify potential virtual system configuration issues and proactively perform maintenance to resolve or improve system performance,
• Manage virtualized servers hosted by VMware and oracle Virtualization and deploy new VMS when required,
• Troubleshoot problems reported by users and analyze issues to prevent it in future,
• Regularly administer, monitor evaluate all the physical and logical program related systems and infrastructure,
• Maintain the integrity and availability of application, servers, storage infrastructure and devices,
• Perform daily system administration and monitoring tasks,
• Perform regular, period off, and on-site backup operations,
• Ensuring that all the required and critical systems, data are successfully backed-up and/or replicated to disaster recovery site,
• Regularly administer and monitor integrity of all relevant physical and logical program infrastructure,
• Ensure systems are protected against any potential breaches,
• Ensure timely installation of patches, upgrades and updates when required,
• Regularly research and perform hardware and software performance tuning, upgrades and resource optimization,
• Recommend timely improvements, upgrades inn all program related physical and logical infrastructure and system,
• Perform any other relevant tasks and responsibilities assigned by the supervisor,
• Perform security monitoring to identify possible security risks, take steps to mitigate the security risks,
• Manage and Maintain enterprise level servers and infrastructure,
• Manage system hardware, including routine maintenance and return materials Authorization (RMA)/replacement of failed hardware and
• Manage configure and trouble shoot CRM.

Job Specifications:

• Having a bachelor degree in computer science or related to IT from a recognized university,
• At least 5 years of experience in managing/ supporting the network infrastructure of a big organization with multiple branches, preferably in a banking environment,
• The experience be in Solaris / Linux-based VPN clients, firewalls, intrusion detection systems,
• In dept experience with VMware ESXI administration, Oracle Virtualization installation, and advanced troubleshooting,
• Having at least one of the following certifications would be a plus point: MCSA, RHCE,
• Having knowledge of data center infrastructure, system hardware and operating systems.

Submission Guideline:

If you meet the above requirements, we are encouraging you to apply for this position. Please send us your CV along with a cover letter via email (vacancies@fmfb.com.af).

Please make sure that your email includes the vacancy ID as the subject line.

Note that, only the candidates who meet the requirements of the position will be shortlisted.