County Systems Admin Jobs In Kenya

IT Officer Systems Administrator Jobs at County Government Of Kakamega, Kenya
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An officer at this level will be responsible to the Senior ICT Officer, Systems Administration and Service Delivery, Responsible for provision of ICT Services to ministry and department in the County through effective management of service, Digitisation, storage and security of data and overseeing administration of CGoK database servers.

Duties and Responsibilities

Oversee administration of County Government of Kakamega servers and its services including planning, designing, installation and maintenance of web server, proxy server, DNS, FTP, Mail and any other relevant server services.

Design and implementation of security systems e.g. firewalls and gateways

Perform 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.

Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary.

Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.

Configuring CPU, memory and disk partitions as required

Monitor the quality of document management services

Ensure that County Government of Kakamega records are digitised as appropriate

Develop and monitor/review County Government of Kakamega data and information management strategy, including data protection, data consistency and record management policy

Ensure compliance with adopted recognised data security standards

Facilitate access to Government data by authorised users

To liaise with technical staff and Information Security Division to ensure technical measures are implemented to conform to information security requirements and access rights

Monitor and report on trends of disclosures including data access/protection complaints, proposing, agreeing and implementing corrective actions

Produce information, data and statistics including the analysis of such, across a range of subjects as required

Assists in Ensure that ICT standards & guidelines for human resource, infrastructure, processes, systems and technology for the public office and public service

Assist to facilitate and regulate the design, implementation and use of ICTs in the public service

Assist in the design and maintenance of formal Government Enterprise Architecture which isthe main design document that specifies the function, scope and organisation of Government

ICT systems and infrastructure; and

Any other duties as maybe assigned from time to time
Requirements for appointment of IT Jobs in Kenya


Be a Kenyan citizen;

A university degree in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) or in any other

ICT related discipline from a recognised institution;

Systems Administration/System Engineer certification in Unix and Microsoft;

Professional qualification in database packages ;

General computing skills, especially in Excel and Access;

5 years relevant experience

Experience in managing various servers and databases

Good communication skills, and problem solving skills; and

Planning and organizational skills , and people management experience;

Note

Applicants for the above positions are required to get clearance from the following Institutions to meet requirements of chapter six of the Constitution of Kenya 2010:

Kenya Revenue Authority

Higher Education Loans Board

Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission

Criminal Investigation Department

Credit Reference Bureau

Copies of the clearance must be attached to the applications.

How to Apply
All applicants should submit their applications together with copies of detailed curriculum vitae, academic and professional certificates, national identity card or passport, and any other supporting documents. The positions applied for should be indicated on top of the envelope.
Kakamega County residents will be required to indicate the Constituency of origin

Applications should be submitted to:

The Secretary
County Public Service Board
P.O. Box 458-50100
Kakamega

Hand delivered applications should be submitted at the County Public Service Board’s Reception located at Former Provincial Headquarters, Block “B” 2nd Floor.
All applications should reach this office on or before 6th August 2015.
County Government of Kakamega is an equal opportunity employer. Female, persons with disability and the youth are encouraged to apply.

Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.
SECRETARY/CEO
COUNTY PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD

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