Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency Vacancy Announcement Positions: System Administrator - Term of Employment: One year with possibility of extension- Duty Station(s): Addis Ababa- Required Number: One- Salary & Benefits: Competitive- Application Deadline: December 05, 2019ESSENTIAL DUTIES:• 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 and SharePoint 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.

Bachelor's

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• BSc Degree in Computer Science, Computer engineering or related field.
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate: Office 365 is preferred.
• At least 6 years directly related experience supplemented with relevant industry standard certifications.
• Six (6) plus years of advanced Windows system administration.
• Experience with medium (400+ users) Active Directory migration project a plus.
• Four (4) plus years managing corporate E-mail systems (Exchange Migration a plus).
• Four (4) plus years’ experience in medium (400+ users) Enterprise environment.
• Experience with internal IT SLA.
• Experience working in a virtualized environment.

5-10 years

• We invite all candidates meeting the required qualifications to send (i) a cover letter and (ii) CV (maximum 3 pages) at http://apply.ata.gov.et• Also, please DO NOT submit scans of certificates with your application form.• Women are highly encouraged to apply.• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.