Supervisor, Systems Administration
Terms of Service: Permanent & Pensionable, upon successful completion of six (6) months probationary period.
Remuneration: As per KRA salary structure.
Job Highlights
The Senior Officer – Systems Administration reports to the Assistant Manager, Systems Administration
Job Summary
The jobholder shall be responsible for day-to-day installation, configuration and maintenance of ICT systems software to support the normal business operations of the Authority.
Duties and responsibilities
- Configure servers as per user requirements.
- Installs, configures and maintains software.
- Implement relevant software updates and patches and service packs on servers to ensure they are up to date.
- Monitor system performance and address potential issues to ensure services are available.
- Deploy application software releases as per deployment instructions.
- Maintain documentation for server parameters and system settings.
- Reviews documented processes and procedures including server inventory.
- Provides technical assistance and subject matter expertise to Authority applications developers and testers.
- Coordinate, monitor and tune to ensure availability of database system resources.
- Implement database interventions to resolve issues where applications cannot be used.
- Monitor and optimize performance of the database.
- Build new databases as per approved business requirements.
- Test, problem resolve and implement relevant software upgrades, patches and new installations.
Person specifications
For appointment to this job, the candidate must have:
- A Bachelor’s degree in IT/ Management Information Systems / Business IT/ Computer Science / Business Administration / Management Course or any other related course from a recognized institution
- Membership of ISACA professional body or any other relevant technical professionally recognized body.
- Certification in Red Hat/Unix/Linux Certified Systems Administrator/Microsoft Engineer.
- Minimum of 3 years work experience in a similar role.
Certification in any of the following, will be an added advantage:
- COBIT 5
- ITIL
- PRINCE2
- Web Application Servers i.e. Tomcat and JBOSS, Web Logic
- Virtualization software training i.e. VM Ware, Citrix, Hyper-
Job Application Guidelines
Registration:
- Go to https://erecruitment.kra.go.ke/login and then click on the ‘Register’ button to start the application process.
- After registration, you will receive an email enabling you to confirm your email address and complete your registration.
Log on:
- After registration go to https://erecruitment.kra.go.ke/login
- Key in your username and password then click on ‘Log in’ to access your account.
- After successful log in, the system will open the ‘Applicant Cockpit’.
Candidate Profile (To create or update applicant detail):
- On the ‘Applicant Cockpit’ page, go to the tab ‘Candidate Profile’.
- Click on ‘My Profile’ to create and update your profile.
- Follow the instructions to complete your profile.
- The process will end by clicking the tab “Overview and Release”.
- Ensure you click the check box on the page to complete the profile.
Application process:
- To view the open job postings, click on the tab ‘Employment Opportunities’ on the ‘Applicant Cockpit’ page.
- Under the heading ‘Job Search’ click the ‘Start’ button to view all available vacancies.
- Click on the Job posting to display the details of the position.
- To apply for the position, click ‘Apply’ button at the top of the page.
- Follow the instructions to complete and submit your application.
- Kindly note that all mandatory fields must be completed.
- To complete the process of application, click the ‘Send Application Now’ button after reviewing and accepting the ‘Data Privacy Statement’.
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Kenya Revenue Authority does not charge any fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, shortlisting, interviewing, and/or offer)
