Job Description

                                     Vacancy Announcement

ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY

Position:                          Network Engineer (Re-advert)

Term of Employment:  One Year with possibility of extension

Duty Station(s):             Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Required Number:        One

Salary & Benefits:          Competitive

Application Deadline:   July 18, 2021

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 smallholder farmers are commercialized with greater incomes, inclusiveness, resilience and sustainability, contributing to transformed agriculture by 2030.

The agency focuses on two primary national approaches to catalyze agricultural transformation. First, we support the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), and its federal and regional affiliate institutions and other partners to identify and address systemic bottlenecks within the sector’s development plan. Second, we support Regional Governments to accelerate the development of high-priority commodity value chains in clearly defined geographic clusters, through the Agricultural Commercialization Clusters (ACC) Program.

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, with regional office representations 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 teamwork 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 to 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:

The Network Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, monitoring and managing the local and wide area networks of the organization to ensure maximum uptime for users. The role can include designing system configurations, documenting and managing the installation of a new network, and maintaining and upgrading existing systems as necessary.

The role is also responsible to ensure installing, supporting and maintaining new server hardware and software infrastructure; A Network Engineer performs a wide variety of evaluation, maintenance, installation and training tasks to ensure the computer network performance meets company and user satisfaction.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, set up and configure complex switching environments. 
• The successful candidate will have a strong technical background, including working knowledge of network management protocols, networking architecture, authentication practices and security administration.
• Design, set up and configure complex wireless networking that supports open or secured access and the ability to support voice and video applications.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of Local Area Networking.
• Assist in the design of multi-server environments including IP address schemes, DNS, WINS, Ether-Channel (Bonding), etc.
• Configuring and installing client and server network software for upgrading and maintaining network and telecommunication systems.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of the basics behind the Internet and its workings (DNS, Security, IP Routing, HTTP, VPN, Email Routing, SPAM, etc.).
• Configure and set up Cisco Firewalls, VPN Concentrators and Security appliances for access to vital business applications. 
• Maintaining multi-site network operations and software applications, operating systems and regular maintenance with both private and public facilities.
• Managing assigned projects and program components to deliver services in accordance with established objectives.
• Responding to inquiries from staff, administrators, service providers, site personnel and outside vendors and etc. to provide technical assistance and support.
• Maintaining Detailed Documentation and Following a prescribed Configuration Management Process.
• General user support.
• Administration of systems and servers related networks to ensure availability of services to authorized users.
• Troubleshooting malfunctions of network hardware and software applications, and security systems to resolve operational issues and restore services.
• Establishes networking environment by designing system configuration; directing system installation; defining, documenting, and enforcing system standards.
• Maximizes network performance by monitoring performance; troubleshooting network problems and outages; scheduling upgrades; collaborating with network architects on network optimization.
• Others as requested by the supervisor. 

Job Requirements

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 6 years for BSc or 4 years for MSc supplemented with relevant industry-standard certifications.
• CCNP Certification required.
• Six (6) plus years of Enterprise network administration.
• Superior troubleshooting skills.
• Experience working in a virtualized environment.
• Experience with SAN/NAS storage equipment.

How to Apply

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

We invite all candidates meeting the required qualifications to send (i) a cover letter and (ii) CV (maximum 5 pages) at the website

Also, please DO NOT submit scans of certificates with your application form.

Women are highly encouraged to apply.

NB. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.