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Vacancy Announcement

ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION INSTITUTE

Position:                                Senior System Administrator

Term of Employment:        One year with a possibility of extension

Duty Station(s):                    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Required Number:                One

Application Deadline:         November 30, 2024  

Background

The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI), formerly known as the Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA), is a strategy and delivery-oriented government institute created to help accelerate the growth and transformation of Ethiopia’s agriculture sector, which is a key contributor to the country’s GDP, exports, and workforce. The ATI’s work is centred on improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers (SHFs) across the country for improved income, inclusiveness, resilience, and sustainability.  The ATI works to transform the agriculture sector in Ethiopia by conducting policy and analytical studies, providing technical implementation support and capacity building, coordinating platforms to better integrate partners and projects, and designing and directly leading several innovative/pilot interventions. The Institute joins forces with various stakeholders, including policymakers, researchers, farmers, and development partners, to support the implementation of agricultural development programs and initiatives. In addition, the ATI collaborates with national and international partners to facilitate knowledge exchange and learning opportunities. The Institute plays a crucial role in generating and disseminating information to support evidence-based decision-making in Ethiopia’s agricultural sector.

Our Culture

We have an exceptional team of highly competent employees with a proven track record of success in managing complex activities and achieving transformational results.  Our culture is one where talented, dedicated and adaptable individuals are committed to doing their best and exhibit great teamwork to achieve excellent results. At ATI, we provide an exceptional platform for people who want to achieve their highest potential and make a meaningful contribution in changing the country’s agricultural sector.  We offer rewarding work in a young, fast-paced growing organization with passionate, committed, motivated colleagues and excellent career development and training.  We recognize our most valuable assets are our staff and are committed to providing our employees with the tools, training, and mentorships necessary to achieve their career goals.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain and support the administration of corporate email and Exchange application’s environment, which comprises Exchange on-prem and O365 services.
• Create and maintain daily/weekly/monthly operational checklists and operational reports.
• Manage virtual and physical servers with Windows Servers ranging from 2008 – 2016 and RHEL operating systems.
• Ensure the security of the server infrastructure by implementing industry best-practices regarding privacy, security and others & manage server and workstation patching with SCCM.
• Design and implement Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services utilizing Microsoft Best Practices.
• Windows Server Administration in an Active Directory environment using Windows Server 2008 through 2019; including IIS, Terminal Services/Remote Desktop Services, and Certificate Services
• Management of O365 identities and license assignments
• Maintain and manage the health of office 365 tenant and manage the license and subscription in the tenant.
• Administration, support, and configuration of the Exchange Online/Outlook platform for staff
• Administration, configuration, and maintenance of Office 365 security tools, such as email spam security, data loss prevention, and information protection.
• Ensuring the operational health of Office 365 apps Online environments including security, availability, performance, interoperability, and reliability.
• Maintenance of Groups and access control to SharePoint sites and subsites, lists, libraries, and content.
• Governance and administration of SharePoint sites, Groups, Security Groups, and Distribution Lists.
• Troubleshooting various Office 365 related issues, including features, connectivity, and mobility.
• Administration, support, and configuration of Office 365 integrations, certificate authentication, mobile device management, and Active Directory.
• Training and educating users on O365 capabilities and collaboration tools (including OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, OneNote, Outlook, etc.)
• Developing automations and flows among Office 365 and external cloud applications
• Creating and maintaining documentation on processes, procedures, configurations, and user guides
• Supporting Domain networking services such as DNS, DDNS, DHCP, WINS, and WPA2.
• Supporting Internet and Intranet services including Internet Access, OWA, SharePoint Services, External Web Servers, and Intranet.
• Perform enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery practices for all systems and applications and test routine system backups and restores.
• Anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot, and correct hardware and software issues on servers, and workstations. Escalate incidents as necessary.
• Practice server asset management, Provisioning and Maintaining hyper converged Equipment, including maintenance of server component inventory and related documentation and technical specifications information.
• Recommend, schedule, and perform software and hardware upgrades, patches and reconfigurations.
• Support Hyper-V environment
• Supporting a VMWare ESX Clustered Environment
• Support enterprise antivirus software.
• Proactive systems monitoring and maintenance with native and 3rd party applications (SNMP, Solar Winds, AD Manage, WSUS etc.)
• Developing scripting tools as necessary to automate or expedite administration tasks.
• Others as requested by the supervisor.
• Basic knowledge of shell & Perl scripting, Ansible, and Docker. Additional knowledge of containers (Kubernetes, Podman, Docker) is a plus.
• Familiar with VMware vSphere and setting up and maintaining virtual servers
• Familiar with High-Performance Cluster Manager (HPCM) software and able to install and maintain a cluster using that software.
• Understanding of common protocols such as SMTP, HTTP, FTP, etc.;
• knows at least one scripting language on *nix platforms, such as BASH, Perl, Python, PHP, etc.;