Regional Linux Server Administrator

Background

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) has Cooperative Agreements with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Health and its partners for multiple HIV and STI Surveillance and program Monitoring & Evaluation M&E activities.

Under the supervision of the Information, Communication & Technology (ICT) Manager the Regional Linux Server Administrator will be in charge of administering and maintaining the Linux installations for UCSF GSI Projects in Tanzania, Namibia, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Cambodia, USA and Jamaica.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Work with ICT Manager in Designing and maintaining critical infrastructure for GSI systems.
• Technical advisory on specific solutions based on requirements for each country server needs.
• General Linux server administration and management
• Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hot fixes on servers.
• Manage and implement best security practices including encryption on Linux servers and cloud infrastructure security.
• Coordinate with compliance specialists to respond to, isolate, resolve, and document any server security breaches.
• Ensure high server availability and continuously review and implement redundancy plans.
• Install software and databases services required on the servers e.g. NGIX, APACHE, TOMCAT, DJANGO, MySQL etc.
• Manage users, permissions, and secure access to the systems.
• Proactively monitor system performance, log faults, analyze and resolve performance exceptions and document solutions.
• Work with HIS developers and other constituents for server capacity planning.
• Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks.
• Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the server environment.
• Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes.
• Document and maintain SOPs for server management.
• Support international projects through close coordination with local teams, on-site travel, and capacity building as needed.
• Maintain inventory of all server and software installations done for each country and ensure timely upgrades and decommissioning of servers and resources.
• Assist the ICT manager in maintenance of Windows servers, Microsoft SQL servers and Power BI servers.

Minimum Requirements:

Education

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or equivalent degree with five years’ experience in Linux Administration.
• A Master’s degree will be an added advantage

Experience (Required)

• 5 years’ experience in Linux Administration
• Industry Linux certification
• Excellent understanding of Linux Server security
• Demonstratable experience in managing databases, MySQL, Postgres and MSSQL
• Demonstratable knowledge in managing Cloud infrastructure for MS Azure and AWS
• Demonstratable knowledge of understanding Azure and AWS security.
• Demonstratable knowledge server configuration automation with Ansible

Abilities

• Maintain strict confidentiality with UCSF data/information
• Maintain high level of professional ethics
• Exercise good judgment and seek guidance as appropriate when confronted with unanticipated problem
• Maintain a high-performance standard.