Job Purpose: Responsible for the administration of the bank’s corporate network and all infrastructure with the key aim of ensuring operational performance, capacity, and security and risk management.

Reports to : Head of IT

Key Responsibilities:
• Manage and set priorities for the design, maintenance, development, and evaluation of all infrastructure systems, including LANs, WANs, Internet, intranet, security, wireless implementations etc.
• Implement short and long term strategic plans to ensure infrastructure capacity meets existing and future requirements
• Test network and server performance; provide network/server performance statistics and reports to ensure proper maintenance of the network/Server infrastructure.
• Monitor bandwidth usage, analyze traffic patterns and volumes, and determine impact/implications of issues and thereafter make recommendations to management.
• Develop, Plan/schedule maintenance activities and communicate standards for use, and security of network in a timely manner.
• Come up with specifications of all new I.T equipment for Technical Services and recording and taking proper inventory of all Network & infrastructure assets of the Bank.
• Implements policies and procedures related to network hardware, use, support, security, and backup.
• Ensure that substantive Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans are in place, regularly tested and updated.
• Diagnose and resolve hardware failures, network operating system problems and other LAN/WAN related malfunctions.
• Develop and implement data security policies by ensuring that these are monitored, enforced, and that information is stored and retained correctly.
• Represent the Head of I.T on working groups and at other meetings whenever the need arises.
• Carry out regular security monitoring to detect any possible intrusions.
• Run End of Day, End of Month and End of year operations

Education
• A Bachelor’s degree in IT/Computer Science or other related field
• Relevant certifications in Cisco with a minimum of CCNA

Experience
• At least 4 years’ experience in similar role in a Supervised Financial Institution by Bank of Uganda.
• Knowledge of Server Operating Systems and administration

Skills and competencies.
• Good working knowledge of Financial Institutions Operations and Regulations of Supervised Financial Institutions in Uganda.
• Analytical and critical skills with problem solving.
• Highly organized
• Proactive and decisive
• Ability to influence others on control behaviors.
• Interpersonal and team player skills
• Stakeholder management capabilities
• Motivated and self-driven