Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, December 05, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The Kenya Education Network (KENET)is a not-for-profit membership organization that is also the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Kenya. It builds and operates a national broadband network that interconnects member institutions and provides access to the global Internet. KENET’s mission is to catalyse the transformation of education and research in Kenya using ICT.
KENET provides broadband Internet services, ICT capacity building, and community cloud services such as web hosting, Infrastructure as a Service and Video/Web Conferencing as a Service and advanced research services to member institutions that includes all the major universities and research institutions.
KENET promotes and supports research and education collaboration in all academic areas and conducts ICT in education research in partnership with faculty and researchers drawn from member institutions. This position reports to the Lead Network Operations Engineer and will join the core shared service technical team with the responsibility for deployment and support of shared and security services that KENET provides to member institutions. The candidate must be capable of working to accomplish both short term and long-term goals. .

Job Responsibilities: Not Specified
Job Skills: Not Specified

  Job Qualifications:
• An undergraduate degree in electrical engineering, computer science or information systems equivalent from a recognized university with proficiency in UNIX and at least one programming language.
• At least five years’ experience as a systems administrator in an organization with a large IP network and/or a large data center.
• At least five years experience in deployment and support of large information systems (ERPs); Management Information Systems and the technical implementation of information security policies in a medium to large organization
• Working knowledge in deployment and support of enterprise shared storage systems, enterprise virtualization technologies, open source virtualization and cloud platform technologies, containerized virtualization technologies and the technical implementation of information security policies in a medium to large organization
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server & LINUX operating systems; MS SQL Server and related Dababase management systems will be an added advantage
• Post-graduate degree with specialization in information systems or security will be an added advantage
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English language
• Ability to work with limited supervision and in a team of ICT professionals
• Demonstrated high ethical and moral standards

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified
Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

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Job application procedure
The applications should be submitted not later than December 14, 2015. Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted to attend interviews at KENET within one month from the deadline for applications date.
KENET is an equal opportunity employer and promotes diversity. Female candidates as well as candidates from marginalized or semi-arid areas are encouraged to apply.
A competitive remuneration package commensurate with the position shall be offered to the successful candidates.
NB: Applications submitted in hard copy format will not be considered.

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