, Addis Ababa
Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA)
Vacancy Announcement ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY   Position:                          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, 2019 BACKGROUND: The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) is a strategy and delivery-oriented government agency created to help accelerate the growth and transformation of the country’s agriculture sector. The ATA envisions that, by 2025, smallholder farmers are commercialized with greater incomes, inclusiveness, resilience and sustainability, contributing to Ethiopia’s achievement of middle-income country status. The agency focuses on two primary national approaches to catalyze agricultural transformation. First, we support the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Resources (MoA), its affiliate institutions, and other partners to identify and address systemic bottlenecks within an Agricultural Transformation Agenda. Second, we support Regional Governments to accelerate development of high-priority commodity value chains in clearly defined geographic clusters, through the Agricultural Commercialization Clusters (ACC) Initiative. Our major activities include conducting strategic and analytical studies, providing technical implementation support, coordinating platforms to better integrate partners and projects, and designing and directly leading a number of implementation projects. Our headquarters are in Addis Ababa, and we have regional offices in Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray regional offices, allowing us to work closely with a wide range of public, private and development sector partners across the country. 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 team work to achieve excellent results.  At ATA, 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.  POSITION SUMMARY: System Administrator is responsible for the technical design, planning, implementation, and the highest level of performance tuning and recovery procedures for mission critical enterprise systems. S/he will serve as a technical expert in the area of system administration for complex operating systems. S/he recommends the redesign and configuration of operating systems and system applications.  ESSENTIAL 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 ServicesManagement of O365 identities and license assignmentsMaintain 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 staffAdministration, 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 sub-sites, 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 automation and flows among Office 365 and external cloud applicationsCreating and maintaining documentation on processes, procedures, configurations, and user guidesSupporting 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 re-configurations.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.