System Administrator

Title: System Administrator

Grade: C6

Project: D016 – Analysis Unit

Location: Lusaka – Lusaka District, Lusaka Province

Publish Date: 25 Sep 2026 00:00

Deadline Date: 02 Oct 2026 00:00

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Description Job Summary: The System Administrator maintains reliable, secure and well-documented server environments across all premises and cloud infrastructure.

Main Duties

• Installs, configures and maintains server operating systems and application environments across development, testing, staging and production.
• Monitors availability, utilisation, capacity and performance, and applies patches through approved change procedures.
• Supports deployment and rollback of approved application releases.
• Manages system identities, service accounts, certificates and permissions.
• Implements and verifies backups, conducts recovery testing and supports high-availability and disaster-recovery arrangements.
• Troubleshoots infrastructure incidents escalated from the Service Desk and provides log evidence during investigations.
• Implements security configurations with the Cybersecurity Expert and coordinates hosting requirements with the Database Administrator.
• Automates routine tasks and maintains infrastructure diagrams, configuration records and operating procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or a related field.
• At least four years’ relevant systems-administration experience.
• Demonstrated experience administering production server environments.

Added Advantage

• Relevant Microsoft, Linux, Azure, AWS, VMware or comparable certification.
• Experience supporting health information systems.
• Scripting or infrastructure-automation experience.

Technical Knowledge And Skills Windows and/or Linux server administration; virtualisation; cloud environments; networking fundamentals; PowerShell/Bash or comparable scripting; backup and recovery; system monitoring; certificates; identity and access management; deployment support