Network and Data Center Officer
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About Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP):
Ministry of Mines and Petroleum is an enabler of the sector’s development and steward of all mineral and hydrocarbon resources through the implementation of international best practice, policies, regulations and procedures to encourage environmentally and socially acceptable private investment. It is the responsibility of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum to ensure progress in research, exploration, development, and exploitation of both minerals and hydrocarbons. The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum approach is to create the highest level of ministerial competence, promote clear and transparent investment opportunities through modern laws, regulation and policies; and develop a progressive and inviting fiscal regime.
Job Summary:
Design in cooperation with Contractor staff and implement one network for the entire ministry, including MOMP, MOMP and other Donor operated IT equipment.
Skills Required:
Problem-solving
Requires travel to provinces:
No
Skills Description:
1. Ability to contribute to the design and architecture experience with agile development and programming methodologies.
2. Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
3. Capable of understanding and contributing to the technical solution from the design through code level.
4. Strong skills in resolving defects/bugs during Quality Assurance testing, pre-production, production and post-release patches.
5. Should be creative and self-motivated.
Duties & Responsibilities:
1. Develop an action plan based on job description.
2. Administer the network, all servers, hardware (including peripheral devices, such as fire wall, antivirus etc.), Local Area Networks (LANs), and software systems. This includes all project Laptops.
3. Design in cooperation with Contractor staff and implement one network for the entire ministry, including MOMP, MOMP and another Donor operated IT equipment.
4. Implement in cooperation with Contractor staff one satellite link, sufficient to serve all users and allow for video conferencing
5. Design in cooperation with Contractor staff and implement a consolidation strategy for all existing networks and implement it
6. Design in cooperation with Contractor staff and implement a backup strategy and implement it
7. Ensure that all systems, networks and internet services, once implemented, are operating efficiently;
8. Maintaining other Project electronic devices (e.g. digital protectors; external storage devices; UPSs; voltage regulators etc) as necessary;
9. Managing, repairing and replacement of hardware (including repairs/replacement under warranty)
as necessary to ensure functionality, with minimum of delay;
10. Respond to the requests of Ministry staff in all IT matters. Troubleshooting IT problems and taking prompt remedial action; this includes MoMP and MOMP Contractors installation of new hardware and software as required.
11. Supporting MOMP consultants with troubleshooting with software and hardware issues as they arise provide solutions and implement when requested.
12. Proactively advise the MOMP Director of necessary or recommended improvements to the IT systems;
13. Other activities, whether explicitly stated or not, to anticipate and ensure the smooth running of all IT systems within the Ministry.
14. Other duties in line with the above that are reasonably requested by the Director of MOMP.
15. Manage and Support MOMP Data Center Servers, ( DB Server, VMware Esxi, GIS Department,
Licenses Manager, Cisco ACS AAA Authentication, Cisco VPN to MoMP provinces Offices, Cacti Graph Monitoring, Manage Engine tools, Op-manager, Voice Over IP Asterisk, Symantec backup, Redundancy and Failover).
16. Perform the duties under the IT director and take account any other task assigned by the supervisor.
Job Location:
Afghanistan, KabulQualifications:
At lease Bachelor degree in Computer Science.
Experience: At least 4 years of experience in relevant field.
Other qualifications’ an advantage, experience Cisco CCNA, CCNP, CCNP Security, VMware, Pfsense, Asterisk.
Open Source operating systems (Unix, CentOS and Ets)
Languages: Pashto, Dari and English.
Job Keywords:
Network and Data Center Officer
Submission Guideline:
Expressions of interest (including CV and three references in word file) should be sent to the email address below by no later than March 02, 2020 at 16:00 hrs.
Applicants must mention below reference in the subject line of their emails if not the candidate application will not be consider.
MoMP/PSU/IT Directorate-Network and Data Center Officer
Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, Program Support Unit (PSU)
Attention: Development Projects HR Unit 4th floor Main Building Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) at Abdul Haq Square
Shafiqur Rahman Qaseri, Projects HR Coordinator
Contact Number: 93 (0) 783130104
Submission Email:
recruitment.momp.psu@gmail.com