Monday 9 May 2011

Scholarships 2011, DAAD Master and PHD in Germany, Kenya

Scholarships 2011, DAAD Master and PHD in Germany, Kenya
DAAD Master and PHD in Germany Scholarship Opportunities
Scholarship Opportunities!

Master in Germany

Are you an ambitious young professional with a good Bachelor’s degree not older than 6 years, or below the age of 36, with at least two years of professional experience and want to further your career?

Mostly taught in English, the courses are in the fields of Economics, Engineering, Regional Planning, Agriculture, Health, Law and more.

PhD in Germany

Are you an ambitious young scholar with a Master’s degree (completed less than 6 years ago), would like to experience the German scientific world and earn a PhD from a German university?

Then find out about DAAD offers during our open day at the Goethe-Institute on May 14th 2011, from 9 AM to 5 PM

General presentations every hour (starting at 10 am), individual consultations throughout

Application details:
postgrad@daadafrica.org url: http://nairobi.daad.de

Application deadlines:

For Masters: End of July every year at DAAD Nairobi

For PhD: End of September every year at DAAD Nairobi

DAAD Nairobi Office

Visiting hours: Wednesdays and Thursdays between 9 am and 12 noon

Telephone: +254-771-444 111, +254-733-929 929 +254-202-729 741.

3rd Floor Madison Insurance House,
Upper Hill Close, Community Nairobi

COMVIVA ADVERT- INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT ENGINEER, APPLICATION SUPPORT ENGINEER‏

 Reporting to the infrastructure Systems Engineer, the Infrastructure Support Engineer will be responsible for:

 Infrastructure Support Engineer - Level 1

1.     Telecom & Networking fundamentals, Unix Administration, Trouble shooting skills for applications/Interfaces /DBs, Carrying out routine Ops activities & checklists.
2.     Understanding the process tables and how to stop/ start processes and Awareness of VAS Services, Call flows, GSM, SS7, and clustering fundamentals.
3.     Understanding of disk systems (such as Mirroring and RAID) and Liaising directly with customers on service requests or problems.
4.      Ensuring understanding of business impact associated with problems and keeping the customer informed as part of the resolution process.
5.     Retaining ownership of customer issues until resolved, escalated or accepted by another individual.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
·        Graduate
·        1-3 Yrs Support in Technical Service/ Customer care environment
·        Good knowledge and experience in Microsoft Active Domain and Exchange networks.
·        Good analytical skills.
·        Good oral and written Communication skills - Written & Oral
·        Experience in customer relationship management.
·        Ability to work with minimum supervision.
·        Project management skills


Infrastructure Support Engineer - Level 2

Reporting to the infrastructure Systems Engineer, the Infrastructure Support Engineer will be responsible for:
1.     Telecom & Networking fundamentals, Unix Administration, Trouble shooting skills for applications/Interfaces /DBs, Carrying out routine Ops activities & checklists.
2.     Understanding the process tables and how to stop/ start processes and Awareness of VAS Services, Call flows, GSM, SS7, and clustering fundamentals.
3.     Understanding of disk systems (such as Mirroring and RAID) and Liaising directly with customers on service requests or problems.
4.     Ensuring understanding of business impact associated with problems and keeping the customer informed as part of the resolution process.
5.     Retaining ownership of customer issues until resolved, escalated or accepted by another individual.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
·        Graduate , BE, MCA, Postgraduate
·        3-5 Yrs Support in Technical Service/ Customer care environment
·        Good knowledge and experience in Microsoft Active Domain and Exchange networks.
·        Good analytical skills.
·        Good oral and written Communication skills - Written & Oral
·        Experience in customer relationship management.
·        Ability to work with minimum supervision.
·        Project management skills

Application Support Engineer – Level 1

Reporting to the infrastructure Systems Engineer, the Application Support Engineer will be responsible for:
1.       Understanding of the OS & UNIX Command tools and application of system patches and change kernels under - Awareness of clustering fundamentals Administration
2.     Utilizing of remote access software available on customer networks to remotely control servers and understanding data movement utilities and file permissions
3.     Adding of users to local systems using available administration tools File and File Systems Mount/ dismount file systems, System Processes, understanding of process tables and how to stop and start processes.
4.     Understanding and acceptance of the requirement for physical and virtual security within the UNIX environment. Awareness of security classifications and policies Scripting- Understanding of the various types of scripts and the commands used
5.     Writing and modifying basic shell scripts monitoring major processes as well as regular monitoring and reporting.
6.     Understanding of Storage, Management of disk systems and utilizing array tools to allocate LUN's on some arrays - Solid understanding of storage, including SAN
7.     Security- Ability to install/configure security tools in the Unix environment
8.     Scripting & use of complex commands AWK and SED9. As well as monitoring and reporting using the standard tools.

Knowledge, Skills and ABILITIES:
·        Diploma
·        1-2 Yrs Support in Technical Service /Customer care environment
·        Good analytical skills.
·        Good oral and written Communication skills.
·        Experience in customer relationship management.
·        Ability to work with minimum supervision.
·        Project management skills
·        ITIL fundamentals

Application Support Engineer – Level 2

Reporting to the infrastructure Systems Engineer, the Application Support Engineer will be responsible for:
1.       Understanding of the OS & UNIX Command tools and application of system patches and change kernels under - Awareness of clustering fundamentals Administration
2.     Utilizing of remote access software available on customer networks to remotely control servers and understanding data movement utilities and file permissions
3.     Adding of users to local systems using available administration tools File and File Systems Mount/ dismount file systems, System Processes, understanding of process tables and how to stop and start processes.
4.     Understanding and acceptance of the requirement for physical and virtual security within the UNIX environment. Awareness of security classifications and policies Scripting- Understanding of the various types of scripts and the commands used
5.     Writing and modifying basic shell scripts monitoring major processes as well as regular monitoring and reporting.
6.     Understanding of Storage, Management of disk systems and utilizing array tools to allocate LUN's on some arrays - Solid understanding of storage, including SAN
7.     Security- Ability to install/configure security tools in the Unix environment
8.     Scripting & use of complex commands AWK and SED9. As well as monitoring and reporting using the standard tools.

Knowledge, Skills and ABILITIES:
·        Graduate
·        3-5 Yrs Support in Technical Service /Customer care environment
·        Good analytical skills.
·        Good oral and written Communication skills.
·        Experience in customer relationship management.
·        Ability to work with minimum supervision.
·        Project management skills
·        ITIL fundamentals


If you meet the above criteria, please send your application letter, detailed CV and Certifications to careers@computechlimited.com by Wednesday April 11, 2011