Provide expert support to all core/central information systems viz: (academic, research and administrative). Perform system tuning and recovery procedures for the university critical centralized systems and ensure high uptime, performance and security of the systems.

Key, Duties and Responsibilities
• Plan and coordinate ICT training requirements for staff in their respective units in line Installation, management and maintenance of application servers and related university systems.
• Investigate and analyze the feasibility of system requirements and develop system specifications to prevent problems and to improve systems performance;
• Maintain operating systems, business applications and security tools;
• Evaluate related hardware and software products and make recommendations for adoption;
• Plan and recommend the redesign and configuration of operating systems and system applications;
• Implement system installations, expansion, upgrades and improvements;
• Automate tasks through scripting and the adoption of software/hardware tools;
• Undertake periodic internal audits of all university systems;
• Organize and schedule External System Audits;
• Provide expert support for the information system applications in the respective units;
• Participate in developing internal local software in liaison with the Systems Manager;
• Backup and restore University Systems;
• Analyze system logs and identify potential risk issues with University systems;
• Troubleshoot any reported problems with University Systems;
• Set up and implement security policies for users of all university core systems.

Required Qualifications
• Master’s degree in Information Systems, Software Engineering or Computer Science.
• Bachelor’s, degree Computer Science, Information Systems or Software Engineering
• An Oracle certificate Association (OCA);
• Certification in UNIX Systems administration.

Experience
Minimum of three (3) years working experience, in administration and management of Information Systems, open source platforms for systems, networks and databases

Skills/Competences
• Knowledge of relevant programming languages particularly for web-based systems;
• Knowledge in systems auditing and evaluation
• Knowledge in other relational data base management systems (MYSQL, POSTGRESS and MS SQL Server)
• Interpersonal & Communication skills;
• Good conceptual skills;
• Ability to initiate change