Vacancy Announcement
ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY
Position: System Administrator
Term of Employment: One year with possibility of extension
Duty Station(s): Addis Ababa
Required Number: One
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
Application Deadline: March 25, 2019
BACKGROUND
The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) is a strategy and delivery oriented government agency created to help accelerate the growth and transformation of the country’s agriculture sector. The ATA envisions that, by 2025, smallholder farmers are commercialized with greater incomes, inclusiveness, resilience and sustainability, contributing to Ethiopia’s achievement of middle-income country status.
The agency focuses on two primary national approaches to catalyze agricultural transformation. First, we support the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Resources (MoALR), its affiliate institutions, and other partners to identify and address systemic bottlenecks within an Agricultural Transformation Agenda. Second, we support Regional Governments to accelerate development of high-priority commodity value chains in clearly defined geographic clusters, through the Agricultural Commercialization Clusters (ACC) Initiative.
Our major activities include conducting strategic and analytical studies, providing technical implementation support, coordinating platforms to better integrate partners and projects, and designing and directly leading a number of implementation projects. Our headquarters are in Addis Ababa, and we have regional offices in Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray regional offices, allowing us to work closely with a wide range of public, private and development sector partners across the country.
Our Culture
We have an exceptional team of highly competent employees with a proven track record of success in managing complex activities and achieving transformational results. Our culture is one where talented, dedicated and adaptable individuals are committed to doing their best and exhibit great team work to achieve excellent results.
At ATA, we provide an exceptional platform for people who want to achieve their highest potential and make a meaningful contribution in changing the country’s agricultural sector. We offer rewarding work in a young, fast-paced growing organization with passionate, committed, motivated colleagues and excellent career development and training. We recognize our most valuable assets are our staff and are committed to providing our employees with the tools, training and mentorships necessary to achieve their career goals.
POSITION SUMMARY:
System Administrator is responsible for the technical design, planning, implementation, and the highest level of performance tuning and recovery procedures for mission critical enterprise systems. S/he will serves as a technical expert in the area of system administration for complex operating systems. S/he recommends the redesign and configuration of operating systems and system applications.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
- Manage virtual and physical servers with Windows Servers ranging from 2008 – 2016 and RHEL operating systems.
- Manage Active Directory, Microsoft Office 365, and server and workstation patching with SCCM
- Ensure the security of the server infrastructure by implementing industry best-practices regarding privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
- Architecture: Design and implement Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services utilizing Microsoft Best Practices.
- Administration of E-mail messaging environment including SMTP and MAPI using Microsoft Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016
- Windows Server Administration in an Active Directory environment using Windows Server 2008 and 2012; including IIS, Terminal Services/Remote Desktop Services, and Certificate Services
- Supporting Domain networking services such as DNS, DDNS, DHCP, WINS, and WPA2.
- Supporting Internet and Intranet services including Internet Access, OWA, SharePoint Services, External Web Servers, and Intranet.
- Perform enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery practices for all systems and applications and test routine system backups and restores.
- Anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot, and correct hardware and software issues on servers, and workstations. Escalate incidents as necessary.
- Practice server asset management, including maintenance of server component inventory and related documentation and technical specifications information.
- Recommend, schedule, and perform software and hardware upgrades, patches and reconfigurations.
- Support Hyper-V environment
- Supporting a VMWare ESX Clustered Environment
- Support enterprise antivirus software.
- Proactive systems monitoring and maintenance with native and 3rd party applications (SNMP, Solar Winds, AD Manage, WSUS etc.)
- Provisioning and Maintaining Storage Area Network Equipment
- Developing scripting tools as necessary to automate or expedite administration tasks
- Installation and configuration of new physical and virtual server systems in standalone and high availability clustered configurations
- Troubleshooting and resolution of complex server, workstation, and application problems
- Supporting Internal IT Applications and problem ticket system
- Maintaining Detailed Documentation and Following a prescribed Configuration Management Process
- Develop required reports in response to business user and management needs.
- Manage the physical environment of the server racks including cable management, documentation, labeling, and configuration of KVM switching for console and remote access.
- Build and deploy new servers on the network as needed
- General user support
- Monitoring the use of the web by employees.
- Managing the organization’s website
- System Audit Logging
- Others as requested by the supervisor
Job Requirements
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- BSC in Computer Science, Computer engineering or related field
- Microsoft Exchange 2010 Certification preferred
- At least 6 years directly related experience supplemented with relevant industry standard certifications.
- Six (6) plus years of advanced Windows system administration
- Experience with medium (400+ users) Active Directory migration project a plus
- Four (4) plus years managing corporate E-mail systems (Exchange Migration a plus)
- Four (4) plus years’ experience in medium (400+ users) Enterprise environment
- Experience with internal IT SLA
Experience working in a virtualized environment
How to Apply
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
We invite all candidates meeting the required qualifications to send (i) a cover letter, (ii) CV (maximum 5 pages), and (iii) a completed ATA Application Form at http://apply.ata.gov.et
Also, please DO NOT submit scans of certificates with your application form.
Women are highly encouraged to apply.
- Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
More Information
- Job City Addis Ababa
