Terms of Service: Permanent & Pensionable, upon successful completion of six (6) months probationary period.
Remuneration: As per KRA salary structure.
Job Highlights
The Senior Officer – Systems Administration reports to the Assistant Manager, Systems Administration
Job Summary
The jobholder shall be responsible for day-to-day installation, configuration and maintenance of ICT systems software to support the normal business operations of the Authority.
Duties and responsibilities
- Configure servers as per user requirements.
- Installs, configures and maintains software.
- Implement relevant software updates and patches and service packs on servers to ensure they are up to date.
- Monitor system performance and address potential issues to ensure services are available.
- Deploy application software releases as per deployment instructions.
- Maintain documentation for server parameters and system settings.
- Reviews documented processes and procedures including server inventory.
- Provides technical assistance and subject matter expertise to Authority applications developers and testers.
- Coordinate, monitor and tune to ensure availability of database system resources.
- Implement database interventions to resolve issues where applications cannot be used.
- Monitor and optimize performance of the database.
- Build new databases as per approved business requirements.
- Test, problem resolve and implement relevant software upgrades, patches and new installations.
Person specifications
For appointment to this job, the candidate must have:
- A Bachelor’s degree in IT/ Management Information Systems / Business IT/ Computer Science / Business Administration / Management Course or any other related course from a recognized institution
- Membership of ISACA professional body or any other relevant technical professionally recognized body.
- Certification in Red Hat/Unix/Linux Certified Systems Administrator/Microsoft Engineer.
- Minimum of 3 years work experience in a similar role.
Certification in any of the following, will be an added advantage:
- COBIT 5
- ITIL
- PRINCE2
- Web Application Servers i.e. Tomcat and JBOSS, Web Logic
- Virtualization software training i.e. VM Ware, Citrix, Hyper-
Job Application Guidelines
Registration:
- Go to https://erecruitment.kra.go.ke/login and then click on the ‘Register’ button to start the application process.
- After registration, you will receive an email enabling you to confirm your email address and complete your registration.
Log on:
- After registration go to https://erecruitment.kra.go.ke/login
- Key in your username and password then click on ‘Log in’ to access your account.
- After successful log in, the system will open the ‘Applicant Cockpit’.
Candidate Profile (To create or update applicant detail):
- On the ‘Applicant Cockpit’ page, go to the tab ‘Candidate Profile’.
- Click on ‘My Profile’ to create and update your profile.
- Follow the instructions to complete your profile.
- The process will end by clicking the tab “Overview and Release”.
- Ensure you click the check box on the page to complete the profile.
Application process:
- To view the open job postings, click on the tab ‘Employment Opportunities’ on the ‘Applicant Cockpit’ page.
- Under the heading ‘Job Search’ click the ‘Start’ button to view all available vacancies.
- Click on the Job posting to display the details of the position.
- To apply for the position, click ‘Apply’ button at the top of the page.
- Follow the instructions to complete and submit your application.
- Kindly note that all mandatory fields must be completed.
- To complete the process of application, click the ‘Send Application Now’ button after reviewing and accepting the ‘Data Privacy Statement’.
In case of any challenges, please send your email query to isupporthr@kra.go.ke
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Kenya Revenue Authority does not charge any fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, shortlisting, interviewing, and/or offer)
