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Vacancy Announcement – Cooperative Bank of Oromia

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Cooperative Bank of Oromia S.C would like to invites competent and interested candidates for the following positions.

Position 1: Principal System Architect

Requirements:

Educational Background: BSc/MSc degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related subject.

Work Experience: Eight or more years of IS infrastructure administration and operations experience, from which having three years’ experience as Senior System Engineer/Administration.

Having industry certification/training in more than three of the following areas: Unix/Linux, Windows, HCI, VMWare, AIX, SAN, Middleware Technologies, Backup & Recovery, Project Management and/or ITIL Service Management Certification

Language: Proven proficiency of Listening, Speaking and Writing Afan Oromo, Amharic and English are Mandatory.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for interfacing with application support teams to ensure applications fit within the infrastructure with scalability, reliability and security designed and implemented from the onset and in defining road maps for the solutions.
• Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs.
• Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements.
• Responsible for reviewing cloud technologies and defining digital transformation models and road-
• Reviews systems designs and ensures that appropriate methods, tools and techniques are applied effectively. Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks.
• Provides technical leadership to optimize the performance and capacity of the computing and storage infrastructure.
• Liaise with users, hardware and software vendors and internal systems owners to fine tune systems hardware and software for all systems.
• Support Backup Operations and provide road maps for the capacity growth as per business needs.
• Planning, designing, implementation and support of Container Platforms with Micro-services technologies.
• Investigates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes (including automation) for the management of systems and services.
• Oversees the planning, installation, maintenance and acceptance of new and updated infrastructure components and infrastructure-based services.
• Aligns to service expectations, security requirements and other quality standards.
• Ensures that operational procedures and documentation are fit for purpose and kept up to date.
• Ensures that operational issues are identified, recorded, monitored and resolved. Provides appropriate status and other reports to specialists, users and managers.
• Plans and drives activities to develop organizational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration.
• Responsible for building, maintaining and supporting high-performance, fault-tolerant, scale-able and distributed cloud and infrastructure solutions.
• Assesses risks and takes preventative action. Measures and monitors applications of standards.
• Contributes to the development of organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration and configuration management.
• Provides effective team leadership, including information flow to and from the customer during project work.
• Plans the capture and management of CIs and related information. Agrees scope of configuration management processes and the configuration items (CIs) and related information to be controlled.
• Assess continuity management plans and procedures to ensure they address exposure to risk and that agreed levels of continuity can be maintained.
• Takes responsibility for managing the design, procurement, installation, upgrading, operation, control, maintenance and effective use of specific technology services.
• Leads the delivery of services, ensuring that agreed service levels, security requirements and other quality standards are met.
• Leads the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Leads the preparation of technical plans and ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available.
• Evaluates requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommends actions.
• Ensures that system software is provisioned and configured to facilitate the achievement of service objectives.
• Evaluates new system software, technology platforms and recommends adoption if appropriate.
• Investigates and coordinates the resolution of potential and actual service problems.
• Ensures that operational procedures and diagnostics for system software are current, accessible and well understood
• Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of configuration development and deployment.
• Adopts and adapts appropriate software configuration methods, tools and techniques.
• Contributes to the development of organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for software configuration design and deployment.
• Develops standards and guidelines for implementing data protection and disaster recovery functionality for all business applications and business data.
• Creates, improves and supports computing and storage management services with optimal utilization of computing & storage resources, ensuring security, availability and integrity of data to provide agreed service levels.
• Provides support, guidance and suggestions to work-groups and teams to learn collaborative problem solving and improve their team performance.
• Contributes to the development of workforce plans to ensure the availability of appropriately skilled resources to meet organizational objectives and commitments.
• Contributes to the development of the workforce planning approach. Oversees and reviews the implementation of workforce plans.
• Perform related activities as directed by the supervisor.

Duty Station: Head Office

Way of Registration: Online Via https://career55.sapsf.eu/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jobId=661&company=cooperat05

Position 2: Senior System Engineer

Requirements:

Educational Background: BSc/MSc degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related subject

Work Experience: Four (4) years proven work experience as System Administrator/Engineer on installing, configuring, and troubleshooting of Server Virtualization, UNIX /Linux and Windows platforms.

Having industry certification/training in more than two of the following areas are required: Unix/Linux, Windows, HCI, VM Ware, AIX, SAN, Middleware Technologies, Backup & Recovery

Language: Proven proficiency of Listening, Speaking and Writing Afan Oromo, Amharic and English are Mandatory.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides technical expertise to enable the correct application of operational procedures.
• Contributes to the planning and implementation of infrastructure maintenance and updates.
• Implements agreed infrastructure changes and maintenance routines. Uses infrastructure management tools to determine load and performance statistics.
• Configures tools and/or creates scripts to automate the provisioning, testing and deployment of new and changed infrastructure.
• Maintains operational procedures and checks that they are executed following agreed standards. Investigates and enables the resolution of operational issues.
• Provides reports and proposals for improvement, to specialists, users and managers.
• Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for systems testing.
• Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress.
• Defines complex/new integration builds. Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured.
• Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build.
• Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system.
• Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.
• Undertakes or supervises complex installations and deinstallations of systems or components, including handover to the client.
• Develops procedures and standards for installation and handover to maintain and improve the installation service.
• Schedules installation work around client priorities and resource availability.
• Ensures adherence to established safety and quality procedures.
• Develops, configures and maintains tools (including automation) to identify, track, log and maintain accurate, complete and current information.
• Identifies problems and issues and recommend corrective actions.
• Contributes to the development of continuity management plans.
• Coordinates the planning, designing, and testing of contingency plans
• Produces detailed design specifications to form the basis for the construction of systems. Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.
• Monitors system software metrics and adjusts configurations for optimum availability and performance.
• Reviews system software updates and identifies those that merit action.
• Configures system software for required functionality and performance.
• Investigates and resolves system software problems, requesting action from supplier if required.
• Designs, verifies, documents, amends and refactors complex software configurations for deployment.
• Contributes to the selection of the software configuration methods, tools and techniques.
• Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues’ work.
• Prepares and maintains operational procedures for computing, storage and backup
• Monitors capacity, performance, availability and other operational metrics.
• Takes appropriate action to ensure corrective and proactive maintenance of computing, storage and backup systems to protect and secure business information.
• Contributes to the planning and implementation of new installations and scheduled maintenance and changes of existing systems.
• Maintains and administers tools and methods for software delivery, deployment and configuration.
• Analyses service and component availability, reliability, maintainability and serviceability.
• Ensures that services and components meet and continue to meet all of their agreed performance targets and service levels.
• Implements arrangements for disaster recovery and documents recovery procedures, and cconducts testing of recovery procedures.
• Monitors service component capacity and initiates actions to resolve any shortfalls according to agreed procedures.
• Ensures that incidents are handled according to agreed procedures. Prioritizes and diagnoses incidents.
• Investigates causes of incidents and seeks resolution. Escalates unresolved incidents.
• Facilitates recovery, following resolution of incidents. Documents and closes resolved incidents.
• Determines problem fixes and remedies. Collaborates with others to implement agreed remedies and preventative measures.
• Analyses service delivery performance to identify actions required to maintain or improve levels of service.
• Contributes to the creation of reports, technology road-mapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights.
• Engages proactively and collaboratively with suppliers to resolve incidents, problems, or unsatisfactory performance.
• Provides operational direction, support and guidance to assigned colleagues.
• Coaches colleagues in developing target skills and capabilities in line with team and personal goals.
• Perform related activities as directed by the supervisor

Duty Station: Head Office

Registration: Online Via https://career55.sapsf.eu/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jobId=663&company=cooperat05

Position 3: Senior Network Engineer

Requirements:

Educational Background: BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or any other related fields

Work Experience: Two years industry-related experience as Network Administrator/Senior Network Administrator. Active CCNA and/or CCNP or equivalent certification.

Language: Proven proficiency of Listening, Speaking and Writing Afan Oromo, Amharic and English are Mandatory.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy and maintain redundant pathways for functional networks, and apply appropriate segmentation and security for all WAN, LAN, WLAN, and MPLS services
• Manage and monitor network access control as well as network infrastructure including switches, routers, wireless access points and controllers, and wide area networks.
• Mentor team members, and provide oversight and direction for junior network administrators
• Ensure all network components are patched according to best practices
• Ensure backups of all configurations for networking infrastructure components
• Maintain a secure VPN environment that allows required access while maintaining the confidentiality and integrity of the Bank’s digital resource.
• Develop and maintain complete technical documentation for networking infrastructure, including physical and logical topology.
• Monitor system, maintain performance metrics and test network performance regularly and provide recommendation for modifications and improvements
• Work with other IS teams to ensure connectivity requirements for servers and other systems
• Automate tasks and monitor their effectiveness
• Designs specific network components using agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
• Translates logical designs into physical designs that meet specified operational parameters for capacity and performance.
• Reviews and verifies network designs against non-functional requirements, including validation and error correction procedures, access, security and audit controls.
• Contributes to the development of recovery routines and contingency procedures.
• Contributes to alternative network architectures, networking typologies and design options.
• Maintains the network support process and checks that all requests for support are dealt with according to agreed procedures.
• Ensures network configurations are applied to meet operational requirements in line with agreed procedures.
• Uses network management software and tools to investigate and diagnose network problems, collect performance statistics and create reports.
• Maintains operational security processes and checks that all requests for support are dealt with according to agreed procedures.
• Provides advice on defining access rights and the application and operation of elementary physical, procedural and technical security controls.
• Provides technical expertise to enable the correct application of operational procedures.
• Contributes to the planning and implementation of infrastructure maintenance and updates.
• Undertakes or supervises complex installations and deinstallations of systems or components, including handover to the client.
• Schedules installation work around client priorities and resource availability.
• Identifies problems and issues and recommend corrective actions.
• Contributes to the development of continuity management plans.
• Analyses service and component availability, reliability, maintainability and serviceability.
• Ensures that services and components meet and continue to meet all of their agreed performance targets and service levels.
• Implements arrangements for disaster recovery and documents recovery procedures. Conducts testing of recovery procedures.
• Monitors service component capacity and initiates actions to resolve any shortfalls according to agreed procedures.
• Ensures that incidents are handled according to agreed procedures. Prioritizes and diagnoses incidents.
• Investigates causes of incidents and seeks resolution. Escalates unresolved incidents. Documents and closes resolved incidents.
• Initiates and monitors actions to investigate and resolve problems in systems, processes and services.
• Determines problem fixes and remedies. Collaborates with others to implement agreed remedies and preventative measures.
• Contributes to the creation of reports, technology road-mapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights.
• Coaches colleagues in developing target skills and capabilities in line with team and personal goals.
• Facilitates effective working relationships between team members.
• Perform related activities as directed by the supervisor.

Duty Station: Head Office.

Registration: Online Via https://career55.sapsf.eu/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jobId=664&company=cooperat05

Position 4: Senior Data Center Engineer

Requirements:

Educational Background: BSc/MSc degree in Electro Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering or equivalent

Work Experience: Minimum of two years’ experience as Data Center Engineer and more than four years hands-on experience in DC facility administration, including HVAC, Power systems, Generators, Fire suppression systems, etc.

• Certified data center Facilities Operations Specialist or Equivalent
• Certified data center Professional or equivalent on DC design and planning
• Language: Proven proficiency of Listening, Speaking and Writing Afan Oromo, Amharic and English are Mandatory.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversee the day-to-day operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment in DC/DR Site.
• Establish performance benchmarks, conduct analyses and prepare reports on all aspects of the critical facility operations and maintenance.
• Manage projects effectively/ Operate independently with limited direct management
• Read and understand drawings and prints including one-lines and floor plans.
• Troubleshoot electrical and mechanical DC/DR infrastructure enabling the quick identification of root cause solutions to technical problems.
• Communicate technical activities relating to the facility, its assets, and their operation to relevant parties.
• Create, utilize and administer MOPs, SOPs, Preventative Maintenance Procedures for all work on critical data center facility equipment, and EOPs to drive the consistency of operation and quickly respond to incidents to return equipment to operation.
• Supervise and manage the on-site management of sub-contractors and vendors, and scheduled maintenance of electrical, mechanical, life safety and monitoring equipment while ensuring that all work is performed according to established practices and procedures.
• Oversee the monitoring of equipment and other critical systems.
• Act as an escalation point for all facilities-related issues within the data center.
• Assist in effectively leading Incident Management efforts in the event of system degradation/failures communicating the status to all levels and resolving the issue in a timely fashion.
• Respond to Engineering requests with technical information for electrical power and mechanical capacity.
• Adhere to company security policies and procedures, including health and safety, and local governing requirements as directed.
• Communicate regularly with peers regarding operational readiness and system conditions
• Understand the design life cycle of data center and the stages involved
• Discuss the data center requirements in great level of detail with vendors, suppliers and contractors to ensure that these requirements are met
• Validate design plans, quotes and offers proposed by vendors/contractors
• Understand redundancy levels for both the data center design/setup and maintenance
• Understand the various building considerations such as bullet proofing, mitigation of seismic activity, fire ratings and thermal stability
• Understand how to install a raised floor that meets requirements, avoiding misalignment, level differences and leakage
• Understand how to read a Single Line Electrical Diagram to identify and avoid the most common design issues
• Choose the correct UPS and parallel configuration, learn and avoid classic parallel installation mistakes
• Understand how to calculate battery banks, validate offered configurations to ensure they meet requirements
• Understand the fundamental cooling setup, CFM, Delta-T and other important factors
• Understand full details of fire suppression options, how to calculate gas content and verify installations
• Understand how to measure data center energy efficiency and how to improve it
• Uses data center management tools to produce management information on power, cooling and space and investigate issues where necessary.
• Carries out routine audit and checks to ensure adherence to policies and procedures.
• Contributes to identifying, analyzing and documenting hazards and safety risks using agreed methods and procedures.
• Provides technical expertise to enable the correct application of operational procedures.
• Maintains operational procedures and checks that they are executed following agreed standards. Investigates and enables the resolution of operational issues.
• Develops procedures and standards for installation and handover to maintain and improve the installation service.
• Analyses service and component availability, reliability, maintainability and serviceability.
• Implements arrangements for disaster recovery and documents recovery procedures. Conducts testing of recovery procedures.
• Investigates causes of incidents and seeks resolution. Escalates unresolved incidents.
• Facilitates recovery, following resolution of incidents. Documents and closes resolved incidents.
• Determines problem fixes and remedies. Collaborates with others to implemented agreed remedies and preventative measures.
• Analyses service delivery performance to identify actions required to maintain or improve levels of service.
• Contributes to the creation of reports, technology road-mapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights.
• Engages proactively and collaboratively with suppliers to resolve incidents, problems, or unsatisfactory performance.
• Provides guidance on the application and operation of elementary physical, procedural and technical security controls.
• Ensures that proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriately exploited.
• Agrees project approach with stakeholders and prepares realistic project plans (including scope, schedule, quality, risk and communication plans).
• Contributes to the development of workforce plans to meet current and future demand.
• Perform related activities as directed by the supervisor.
• Applies tools, techniques and processes to administer, track, log, report on and correct configuration items, components and changes.
• Assists with audits to check the accuracy of the information and undertakes any necessary corrective action under direction.
• Follows agreed procedures to identify register and categorize
• Gathers information to enable incident resolution and allocates incidents as appropriate.
• Applies tools, techniques and processes to administer, track, log, report on change requests.
• Applies change control procedures for standard, low-risk changes.
• Monitors and logs the actual service provided, compared to that required by service level agreements.
• Monitors and logs the actual service provided, compared to that required by service level agreements.
• Assists in the investigation and resolution of issues relating to access controls and security systems.
• Documents incident and event information and produces incident, exception, and management reports.
• Maintains records of all related testing and training and ensures the availability of all documentation.
• Records the actions taken and the consequences following an incident or live testing of a continuity plan for a lessons-learned report.
• Uses agreed procedures to create and maintain an accurate register of assets.
• Performs activities related to the administration of assets.
• Produces routine reports to assist asset management activities and decision-making.
• Maintains a knowledge management database.
• Leverages knowledge of a specialism to capture and classify content, taking expert advice when required.
• Assists in the collection and reporting of supplier performance data.
• Assists with the routine day-to-day communication between the organization and suppliers.
• Designs test cases, creates test scripts and test data, and automates repeatable tasks working to the requirements or specifications provided.
• Analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks.
• Perform related activities as directed by the supervisor

• Remuneration: As per the Bank’s salary scale and benefit scheme.

• Terms of employment: Permanent after probationary period.

Duty Station: Head Office.

Registration: Online via https://career55.sapsf.eu/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jobId=662&company=cooperat05

Application Deadline: May 22, 2023

How to Apply

Interested applicants who fulfill the above criteria can submit their soft copies of CV with the application letter and credentials; including soft copy of grade 8 ministry certificate and other supportive documents. Applicants should apply within seven consecutive working days from the date of announcement.

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