Kenya Commercial Bank Limited is registered as a non-operating holding company which started operations as a licensed banking institution with effect from January 1, 2016. The holding company oversees KCB Kenya – incorporated with effect from January 1, 2016 – and all KCB’s regional units in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and South Sudan.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for systems support including but not limited to availability, performance and reliability of all on-premise IT systems infrastructure.
• Provide systems infrastructure team leadership.
• Responsible for infrastructure optimization of all IT infrastructure to ensure optimal infrastructure performance, including right methodologies and tools for efficient monitoring.
• Provide leadership and guidance on automation intiatives for managing systems.
• End to end leadership on patch management for Linux, Windows and Storage Systems.
• Administration duties including Windows Active Directory object maintenance, complex troubleshooting and repair tasks on Active Directory, Windows Server 2012-2022, Domain Controllers, DNS, user authentication and other operational systems as needed.
• Automation of Directory Services to provide Identity Management and User/Group management tools utilizing Active Directory and Redhat IdM as the backbone for the Identity Access Management implementation.
• Establishes service specifications to other systems including permissions modification, deletion, role definitions, reclassification and other similar access management related functions.
• Service Quality Management by ensuring systems Infrastructure platforms perform within or exceed KPIs, ensure ability of the system to support specific forms of traffic, and to support end user experience. The same should be tracked using SLAs.
• Service Quality Management: Ensure IT and Infrastructure platforms perform within or exceed KPIs, ensure ability of the system to support specific forms of traffic, and to support end user experience. The same should be tracked using SLAs.
• Resolve faults on all systems deployed for IT infrastructure and Cloud platforms.
• Implements best practice security measures to ensure the integrity and continuity of systems services and information and continuously monitor security compliance.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in ICT-related field or Electrical Engineering.
• Professional Qualifications Required: VMware (VCP), Storage certification, Microsoft Professional certification in systems.
• RedHat Certification (RHCE, RHCSA) – Added advantage.

Experience:

• Minimum 7 years of total experience
• 7 years of experience in Operating Systems Administration (Linux and Windows).
• 5 years of experience in Redhat/Linux Administration.
• 5 years of experience in Storage Administrations.
• 5 years of experience in Virtualization administration on VMware and RedHat.