UCSF Tanzania New Job Vacancy

UCSF Tanzania is currently seeking for a eligible candidate to fill the vacant position of Regional Linux Servers Administrator.

UCSF Tanzania New Job Vacancy 

UCSF Tanzania New Job Vacancy 

New Job Opportunity at at UCSF Tanzania - Regional Linux Servers Administrator

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) 

Regional Linux Servers Administrator

UCSF Tanzania

JOB DESCRIPTION

About The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) 

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Tanzania through its affiliate international NGO Global Programs Training (GP) is engaged in several projects in Tanzania, Namibia, Kenya, the Caribbean region, Uganda, and Burundi that are funded by the U.S. Government to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Health and its partners. The Health Information Systems(HIS)that are used in these projects need to be deployed, secured, improved and maintained by a fully qualified and experienced server administrator.

The Regional Linux Servers Administrator Position

Under the supervision of the Information, Communication & Technology (ICT) Manager the Regional Linux Servers Administrator will oversee administering and maintaining the Linux installations for University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Global Strategic Information (GSI) Projects in Tanzania, Namibia, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Cambodia, USA and Jamaica. The specific roles will be:

Roles and responsibilities:

• Designing and maintaining critical infrastructure for GSI systems. Coordinate with compliance specialists to document, isolate, and resolve any breach in server security.

• Technical advisory on specific solutions based on requirements for each country’s server needs.

• General Linux server administration and management

• Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hot fixes on servers.

•  Manage and implement best security practices including encryption on Linux servers.

• Always be aware of newly discovered server, infrastructural or system vulnerabilities and plan for immediate remedies.

• Ensure high server availability and continuously review and implement redundancy plans

• Install software and databases services required on the servers e.g. NGIX, APACHE, TOMCAT, DJANGO, MySQL etc.

•  Manage users, permissions, and secure access to the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) systems.

•   Proactively monitor system performance, log faults, analyze and resolve performance exceptions and document solutions.

•  Work with HIS developers and other constituents for server capacity planning.

•  Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks.

•  Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the server environment.

• Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes.

•   Document and maintain SOPs for server management.

• Support international projects through close coordination with local teams, on-site travel, and capacity building as needed at University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

•  Maintain inventory of all server and software installations done for each country and ensure timely upgrades and decommissioning of servers and resources.

• Assist the ICT manager in maintaining Windows servers, Microsoft SQL servers, and Power Bl servers.

•   Any other related duties assigned by the supervisor at University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

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The Person

Minimum requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field with sufficient training in server administration disciplines

•  At least four years of working experience managing multiple Linux servers or a server firm.

•  Demonstrable expertise in securing Linux servers

•  Demonstrable experience in server diagnostics and troubleshooting 

Interested?

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)offer an attractive package commensurate with qualifications and experience. The closing date is 16th June 2022. Email your CV and application letter to [email protected]

Only electronic CV’s will be accepted.

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