Regional Systems Administrator – Latin America
About the Organization:
FINCA International, one of the world's leading MFIs, provides financial services to over 950,000 clients through 21 wholly-owned and operated subsidiaries in Africa, Eurasia, Latin American, and the Greater Middle East.
About the Job:
FINCA International is looking for a Regional Systems Administrator – Latin America. S/he will be responsible for the technical administration of telecommunications, computer, and network systems.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Oversee the day to day activities for the system;
- Responsible for all applications present on the system;
- Administer related systems, including hardware, security, communications, software applications, outside communication links, licensing, and any other troubleshooting activities;
- Provide needed assistance to the process of preparation and optimization of logical and physical design of Data Center and affiliate technical infrastructure;
- Organize sufficient maintenance to all hardware, software and operating systems installed in the Data Center;
- Configure security settings on hardware, network devices and operating system levels in Data Center and affiliate in accordance with security and information protection procedures;
- Organize sufficient maintenance server hardware installed Data Center and affiliate related to core banking application and reporting, as well as other environments managed by regional IT team;
- Installation, update and support of anti-virus software in affiliate and data center on core banking application and reporting related servers. Monitoring and resolution of virus threats;
- Monitor and ensure connectivity between affiliate server room and Data Center, configure and support VPN tunnels, communicate with ISPs to push issue resolution;
- Configure CISCO network equipment (routers, switches, etc.) in Data Center, affiliates’ head offices and branches;
- Organize sufficient maintenance to the hardware and equipment installed in regional data center.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other technical field;
- Must have strong TCP/IP, datacenters and networking experience;
- Experience configuring with Cisco routers and switches;
- Proficient in managing and administering Windows Server, Linux;
- Proficient with datacenter virtualization and VMWARE;
- Experience with SANs (NetApp or EMC);
- Knowledgeable with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and Microsoft server products;
- Familiar with Firewall technologies such as Checkpoint;
- Excellent abilities of technical writing and documentation.
Closing Date: 31 Dec 2012
How to Apply:
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