IT Jobs in Kenya - Mara Ison

Mara Ison is a leading technology company with a presence in 16 African countries.

We currently have the following vacancies in Nairobi and Lagos IBM AIX Support Engineer

• Perform IBM AIX pSeries Servers system administration including installation, customization and security hardening.
• Provide support for all phases of environment life cycle to include hardware setup, configuration, tuning upgrades and capacity planning.
• Create install tests and procedures to implement server OS upgrades and enhancements
• Perform all aspects of UNIX system administration including OS administration, storage allocation and administration.
• Backup and recovery administration and performance enhancements.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Automating system administration utilizingAIX based shell scripting including writing, implementing and ongoing maintenance.

Back up Engineer

• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of backup solutions (namely Symantec Backup solutions) within a largescale enterprise infrastructure
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of tape libraries
• Advanced troubleshooting of backup and restore failures on Microsoft Windows Server (2003,2008) and Linux Redhat (4x, 5x), and databases including Microsoft SQL 2003, 2005, 2008 (including Enterprise, Standard, Express versions), Oracle (8i, 9i, 10g) and Mysql (4x, 5x).
• Perform data restorations for up to and including moderately complex restores including both Windows Server Clusters and Linux Clusters, upon customer request

SAN Storage Engineer

• Responsible for enterprise wide storage allocations, installation, analysis, maintenance and upgrades of storage network hardware software and disk arrays.
• Aid in installation of new storage hardware and software.
• Responsible for managing Fibre Channel connections through the SAN and a Fiber Management Systems for patching.
• Manage the deployment, upgrades, and maintenance of all storage, hardware, and software.
• Create procedures for installation, use, and solving problems for IT storage infrastructure.

Oracle Apps DBA

• Oracle Apps DBA worked on Oracle Apps R11i/R12
• Cloning and up grading the apps database.
• Running the Ad-Admin utilities.
• Hot and Cold backup using RMAN and other Oracle Backup Utilities.
• Knowledge of PL/SQL, TOAD and other Database tools.

Oracle DBA

• Oracle Database Administrator 9i, 10g, 11g on Solaris/Linux/AIX/Unix.
• Implementing Oracle 10g Database on UNIX Cluster Environments.
• Consolidating Database administration with Oracle Enterprise manager Grid Control.
• Installation and Configuration of Oracle Technology Products ( Data mining tools and Oracle dataguard)
• SQL and PL\SQL Programs scripts.
• Working on Linux and UNIX flavored environment.

For complete list of our openings, visit our website www.mara-ison.com/job/