Safaricom Ethiopia External Vacancy Annnouncement
Job Position 1 – Database Administrator
Required Qualification and Experience
Education: Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technology or Electrical Engineering Field.
Experienc: With at least 3 years’ hands on Experience in managing busy database environments.
Experience: 3+ Years Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and MSSQL database administration required and other Opensource Databases.
Experience in Oracle RAC, Dataguard, RMAN and Engineered systems.
Experience in Linux/Unix and Windows Server Operating system.
Database Systems Administration Techniques – understanding of DB Performance tuning on various Operating Systems, good troubleshooting skills, Database Migration, and ILM techniques.
Attention to details and analytical thinking.
Ability to organize and plan work independently.
Strong written and oral capability.
Desired
3+ years of EXADATA administration
Team Player
Ability to work under no supervision.
Willing to learn about new technologies.
Knowledge about Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, OCI &/or Azure)
Place of Work: Addis Ababa
Job Position 2 – System Engineer
Required Qualification and Experience
Education:Graduate/Degree in computer science/Information Technology or Engineering.
Experience: 3+ years’ experience in Windows, Linux server and Cloud Infrastructure environment administration.
Exposure to Cloud Infrastructure monitoring solutions i.e. Splunk, ELK, Prometheus and grafana & others.
Good understanding of System Administration Techniques – e.g. OS Performance, Windows, Virtualization, Linux enterprise, server/ storage and cloud infrastructure, Virtual Network Functions and Container Network Functions.
Experience in Systems, Infrastructure and application monitoring and performance tuning.
Experience in backup operations, strategies and BCP policies.
Knowledge of networking and troubleshooting (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, firewalls, traceroute etc).
Good understanding of agile principles and methodologies.
Strong understanding of IT management best practice frameworks, such as ITIL.
Strong oral, written, interpersonal communication and leadership skills.
Desired
Good problem-solving Skills
Team Player
Ability to work under no supervision.
Willing to learn about new technologies.
Knowledge in Cloud Infrastructure domain
Job Position 3 – Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Required Qualification and Experience
Education: Graduate/Degree in computer science/Electrical Engineering /Information Technology or Engineering.
Experience: 3+ years’ experience in Windows, Linux and cloud Infrastructure environment administration.
Certification in RedHat Linux- RHCSA or RHCE.
Certifications in VMware DC- VCP.
Certification on Kubernetes (CKA)
Good understanding of System Administration Techniques – e.g. OS Performance, Windows, Virtualization, Linux enterprise, server/ storage and cloud infrastructure.
Experience in Openstack and contarization platiforms.
Experience with Container/PaaS orchestration/management platforms such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, CloudFoundry and Tanzu.
Extensive knowledge of Virtual Network Functions
Experience in Brocade SAN Platforms (SAN Switches and Storage).
Experience in Cloud and Infrastructure environments.
Good knowledge of Agile and its working ways.
Strong oral, written, interpersonal communication and leadership skills.
Place of Work: Addis Ababa,
Job Position 4 – Data Center and Campus Networks Engineer
Required Qualification and Experience
Education:Degree in Information Systems and Technology, Electrical, Electronics, Telecommunication Engineering, IT Computer Science or a closely related course.
Above 3 years’ experience in a busy I.T or Telecommunications environment –Involved in strategy modeling, planning, design, implementation, optimization and support of Datacenter and Campus Networks environment.
In-depth understanding of Arista and Cisco networks environments is an added advantage.
Router, Switches and NG firewall configuration and troubleshooting skills (Cisco, FortiGate, Checkpoint and Huawei)
Load balancer configuration and troubleshooting skills (F5, Radware and Citrix)
Mastery of IPsec Configuration and Troubleshooting Skills
Network design and implementation experience, including working knowledge of IP addressing, TCP/IP Protocols, LAN, and WAN configurations.
Knowledge in telephony systems for Voice and Video Communications.
CCNA or HCNA Network Certifications in any line (RS, Security, Wireless, Voice) is desirable.
Place of Work: Addis Ababa,
Job Position 5 – Senior Database Administrator
Required Qualification and Experience
Education:Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technology or Electrical Engineering.
Certified Database Administration on Oracle, MsSQL and Postgre.
Experience: With at least 5+ years’ hands on Experience in Database Management in a busy environment.
Experience: 5+ Years Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL and other Opensource database administration experience.
Experience in Oracle RAC, Dataguard, RMAN and Engineered systems.
Experience in Linux/Unix and Windows Server Operating system.
Database Systems Administration Techniques – understanding of DB Performance tuning on various Operating Systems, good troubleshooting skills, Database Migration, and ILM techniques.
In depth knowledge on Opensource Database platforms preferably Mongo DB, Cansandra, Postgre DBs.
Attention to details and analytical thinking.
Ability to organize and plan work independently.
People leadership and management skills.
Strong written and oral capability.
Desired
5+ years of Oracle EXADATA administration
Team Player with team leadership
skills.
Ability to work under no supervision.
Willing to learn about new technologies.
Knowledge about Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, OCI &/or Azure)
Place of Work: Addis Ababa,
Job Position 6 – Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Required Qualification and Experience
Education:BSc Degree in Computer science, Computer Technology/ Electrical engineering.
Experience: 5+ years’ experience in infrastructure support and/or planning in an environment with mixed VMware, Redhat virtualization.
Cloud Infrastructure Certifications i.e. VMWare Data Center Certifications, RHCSA, RHCE
Experience: 4 years experience in Virtualization and Cloud platforms with exposure to Telecom Virtualized functions.
Experience in Openstack and contarization platiforms.
Experience with Container/PaaS orchestration/management platforms such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, CloudFoundry and Tanzu.
Extensive knowledge of Virtual Network Functions
Extensive knowledge of enterprise Linux and windows Operating Systems.
Extensive experience on Cloud and Infrastructure Operations Activities.
Extensive experience on Cloud Applications operations and Managements.
Experience in backup Strategies and BCP policies.
Experience in Database Operations and Management
Good Knowledge on Vendor Management and SLA enforcement.
Experience with Configuration Management eg Chef, Ansible.
Good understanding of build tools, CI/CD, Devops and Agile principles
Cloud knowledge and integration models.
Strong oral, written, interpersonal communication and leadership skills
Job Position 7 – Senior Data Center and Campus Networks Engineer
Required Qualification and Experience
Education: Degree in Information Systems and Technology, Electrical, Electronics, Telecommunication Engineering, IT Computer Science or a closely related numerate discipline.
Experience: Above 5 years’ experience in a busy I.T or Telecommunications environment –Involved in strategy modeling, planning, design, implementation, optimization and support of Datacenter and Campus Networks environment.
In depth knowledge on Data Center and Campus Networking platforms and other Data Center Infrastructure solutions.
Good Skills on Team leaderships and people /Vendor managements.
In-depth understanding of Arista and Cisco networks environments
In-depth Router, Switches and NG firewall configuration and troubleshooting skills (Arista, Cisco, FortiGate, Checkpoint and Huawei)
In-depth Load balancer configuration and troubleshooting skills (F5, Radware and Citrix)
Mastery of IPsec Configuration and Troubleshooting Skills
Expertise in network design and implementation, including expert knowledge of IP addressing, TCP/IP Protocols, LAN, and WAN configurations.
Deep knowledge of telephony systems for Voice and Video Communications.
Deep Data Center Cloud networking experience including NSX-T
Expertise in end-to-end network support and monitoring
In-depth experience with Data Center Interconnect solutions
Expertise in corporate internet edge and DMZ connectivity
In-depth knowledge of running network RFPs to get the best possible solution.
CCNP or HCNA Network Certifications in any line (RS, Security, Wireless, Voice) is an added advantage.
Fortinet NSE training, Fortinet Certified Associate, or any equivalent firewall training is an added advantage.
Citrix Certified Associate training/certification in App Delivery and Security or equivalent Application Delivery Controller training is an added advantage.
Place of Work: Addis Ababa
