About US:
Yo Uganda Limited (Yo!) is a technology solutions company based in Uganda. Yo! develops solutions geared at delivering significant operational benefits to our customers such as increased efficiency in processes, reduced costs, accelerated growth, increased profitability. Our solutions leverage various mobile platforms such as Mobile Money, SMS, USSD and IVR to deliver value to our customers.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
In charge of setting up and maintaining VPN connections with partners
Responsible for implementing a Centralized System for Monitoring Server Resources, with alerts for critical server resources
Responding to and Resolving Service Outage Alerts in the Shortest Time
Carry out Server Configurations
Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our resources.
Carry out 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 backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system 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.
Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary.
Create, change, and delete user accounts per request.
Repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted parties.
Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary.
Regularly respond to reported system emergencies in a timely fashion regardless of the day or time, and have the ability to put in the required time to resolve such emergencies.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
The Systems Administrator should have a minimum of three years’ experience in a similar role in a busy environment;
Significant experience in installing, managing, configuring Linux systems;
Highly proficient with Linux operating system tools such as text editors and various command line tools;
Previous exposure and experience with shell scripting (awk / bash) is desired;
Programming experience is an added advantage
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and ointerested candidates should send their updated CVs and salary expectations to: jobs@yo.co.ug
Deadline: 26th February, 2016