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Senior Systems Administrator

JOB SUMMARY

Company Esoko
Industry ICT
Category I.T.
Location Accra
Job Status Permanent
Salary GHS
Education Qualified
Experience N/A
Job Expires May 12, 2021
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Company Profile

Esoko is building Africa’s leading community management platform for the delivery of digital services to the rural areas in Africa. We have been a pioneer in the mobile for Agriculture space in Africa and are positioning ourselves to become the leading community platform for rural transactions. We see ourselves as building a kind of “CRM” for rural Africa.  We therefore require the services of an experienced technical person to lead and support the evolution of Esoko’s technology platform in pursuit of the company’s strategic direction.

We’re a highly motivated group of 30 based in Accra, Ghana.

The Esoko Product

Esoko has been helping enterprises manage rural communities since 2008. Traditionally focussed on content services to farmers, the platform now provides powerful data collection tools, biometric profiling, analytics, as well as communication services. The short to medium term goal of the company is to help our partners solve fundamental flaws linked to paper-based data collection systems. Our solution combines mobile 

Job Description

JOB PURPOSE
To maintain, upgrade and manage our software, hardware and networks. To diagnose and resolve problems quickly; To ensure that our technology infrastructure runs smoothly and efficiently.  You should have the patience to communicate with a variety of interdisciplinary teams and users. You will essential be responsible for production servers, development servers and office network and workstations.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
You will drive and be the key owner to the following responsibilities:

  • Install and configure software and hardware.
  • Manage servers (cloud and on-premises) and technology tools.
  • Manage and Monitor company network and implement measure to ensure high availability.
  • Set up accounts and workstations and provide user support.
  • Monitor performance and maintain systems according to requirements.
  • Troubleshoot issues and outages.
  • Ensure security through access controls, backups, and firewalls.
  • Upgrade systems with new releases and models.
  • Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management.
  • Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools to support development team.
  • Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation.
  • Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible.
  • Develop expertise to train staff on new technologies.
  • Managing stakeholders and external interfaces.
  • Build an internal wiki with technical documentation, manuals, and IT policies.

Required Skills or Experience

  • Proven experience as a System Administrator, Network Administrator or similar role
  • Experience with databases, networks (LAN, WAN) and patch management
  • Knowledge of system security (e.g. intrusion detection systems) and data backup/recovery.
  • Experience working on Linux based infrastructure.
  • Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services (experience with any of these:  AWS, Rackspace, Google cloud), container concepts/technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Ability to create scripts to automate work.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Proven experience in Configuration and managing databases such as PostgreSQL, Mongodb.
  • Resourcefulness and problem-solving aptitude. (Resourcefulness is a necessary skill in this role)
  • Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles

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