About US:
Q Sourcing is an East African human resource consulting and outsourcing company, combining unparalleled experience and expertise across business functions.
Job Summary: The Senior Systems Administrator will be responsible for:
Administering Unix servers: Provide system management and administrative support of the production network in a 24 x 7 environment.
Storage, Backup, and Archive: Provide management and administration of the data media with regard to country specific information archiving requirements and OUL operating standards
Virtualization: Provide management and administration of the virtualization technologies.
Mail, DNS, NMS, Proxy Applications: Provide management and administration of Mail Servers, DNS Servers and Network Management System Servers.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Responsible for the installation, configuration and maintenance of the organization’s systems and all related software.
Maintain, tune and patch systems for optimum performance and security.
Ensure changes are planned and implemented in a sound low risk manner with minimal system outages.
Prepare and maintain key team support documents.
Provide on-call support and participate in 24 x 7 roster rotation groups.
Support in Service Management and Application teams in solving problems.
Provide solutions architecture advice (where qualified / experienced to do so).
Provide Technical Project Management (where experience and asked to do so).
Offer technical support for costing solutions (hardware, software, and implementation labour), where experienced and / or being coached in doing so.
Escalate problems and concerns to the manager.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
The Senior Systems Administrator should hold a Bachelor in IT or related field.
Possession of Certification on the storage media and OS tools.
Additional certification on Virtualization technologies.
At least two years’ in-depth technical knowledge of Unix, Linux and Solaris administration, configuration and troubleshooting experiences.
Installation, Configuration & Administration of Solaris 9, Solaris 10.
High availability hands on experience (Sun Clusters), knowledge of Domain systems, remote console access.
Working knowledge of NIS/NFS & TCP/IP Configuration.
In depth understanding DNS.
In depth understanding of all aspects of networking.
Firewalls and security.
Mission critical 24/7 environment.
At least a year’s experience of systems deployment, backup and recovery.
Deep knowledge on Backup and Storage Architecture.
Virtualization technologies.
Past experience in Telecom company or IT company is an added advantage.
Age: 25 years and above
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are invited to send a comprehensive CV by e-mail to recruitment@qsourcing.com.
Note: Kindly mark your application as “Application _Senior Systems Administrator” in the subject line of your email.
Deadline: 16th February, 2015 by 5:00 PM