Ethiopian Commodity Exchange Vacancy
The vision of ECX is to become a leading and dynamic African Exchange of choice. ECX has a mission to provide a modern, efficient, transparent, and reliable market platform and warehousing service through the adaptation of technology, excellence in innovation, and integrity.
ECX is a unique partnership of market actors, Members of the Exchange, and its main promoter, the Government of Ethiopia. ECX represents the future of Ethiopia, bringing integrity, security, and efficiency to the market. ECX would like to promote motivated and qualified applicants for the following positions.
Position: System Administrator
Qualifications:
- MSc\BSc – Information Technology, Computer Science, and other related fields
- 2/4 years of relevant experience in System Administration, SAN administration, and Virtual systems administration-related work experience.
The purpose of the job is to provide tier III technical support for the overall Server and Storage Area Network (SAN) at the headquarters (HEAD OFFICE), Disaster Recovery (DR) site, HEAD OFFICE Trading Centre, and Regional Trading Centers. Administer and oversee the ECX Server and Storage Area Network.
SUMMARY OF MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Contributes to ensuring that the ECX Trading Servers, Clearing and settlement, AD, and all hardware and server resources are properly functioning, secured, and highly available.
- Contributes to ensuring the backup of all Critical systems, such as Application servers, Email, files, and other related systems
- Contributes to installing new/rebuilding/repairing existing or new servers.
- Monitors, records, analyzes, troubleshoots, and reports on system and application event logs
- Ensures the ECX’s Corporate messaging system is functioning, optimized, highly available, and secured
- Monitors and optimizes critical ECX core business applications running on administration blade servers and rack servers ( HEAD OFFICE and DR)
- Monitors and administers Microsoft and VMware Hypervisors, Virtual Machines. Maintains local documentation and auditing security, hosting business-critical applications and databases ( HEAD OFFICE and DR), Microsoft Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Web and File services( HEAD OFFICE and DR), Microsoft Exchange services( corporate email system) ( HEAD OFFICE and DR)
- Ensures the backup of all Critical systems, Databases, files, and folders of the Exchange. ( HEAD OFFICE and DR)
- Ensures the proper functioning of the ECX Server and Storage infrastructure at all times on working and non-working hours, locally and remotely ( HEAD OFFICE and DR)
- Coordinates information system administration and storage infrastructure of the Exchange and ensures all ECX’s externally accessed resources, such as Trading portal, Email, and others, are secured and functioning properly through Administering Gateway security products
- Ensures that all ECX employees are authenticated and authorized to access Server resources
- Participates in System and SAN Infrastructure projects from initiation to full implementation as assigned by the immediate supervisor
- Ensures storage area network is properly secured through zoning, masking, and other related technologies.
- Participates in system/project testing, rollout, and certification with other IT units;
- Closely works with the System, Network, Security, and Application Development teams to produce an optimal solution during new installations and troubleshoot problems;
- Ensures implementation of security and audit options;
- Configures storage devices, services, directories, and peripherals using established standards and requirements
- Performs other duties assigned by the immediate supervisor.
Location: Addis Ababa
Deadline: August 31, 2025.
How to Apply:
All interested and qualified applicants may send a cover/application letter and updated CV with the relevant documents via the Link below:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13HoNSdoY4VYydv4LEO5dnTVk2G7sTZEyA2ytynjxOdI/edit
On or before August 31, 2024.
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ECX is an equal-opportunity employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified female candidates. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
