Malawi Research and Education Network (MAREN)
We invite applications from suitably qualified, skilled, experienced, and competent individuals for the following positions:
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
The Systems Engineer (SE) shall report to the Systems Manager and will ensure highest level of systems efficiency and support available to MAREN and client institutions.
Key Accountabilities:
- Managing and monitoring all installed applications
- Installing, configuring, testing and maintaining applications
- Proactively ensuring the highest levels of service availability of deployed applications.
- Monitoring and testing application performance for potential bottlenecks, identifying possible solutions, and implementing those fixes
- Maintaining security, backup, and redundancy strategies
- Writing and maintaining custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks
- Participating in the design of information and operational support systems
- Being the first line of client help desk support and pro-actively engaging clients on system issue
- Liaising with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
- Developing and supporting software systems for end users
Qualifications and Experience
A suitable candidate shall have:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology from a recognized institution or related fields.
- Solid experience in developing and supporting applications in the past 3 years
- Solid experience in the administration and performance tuning of application stacks (e.g. Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, Ruby, NGINX)
- Experience with DevOps and practical use of Ansible playbooks
- Experience with monitoring systems
- Experience with automation software (e.g., Puppet, cfengine, Chef)
- Solid scripting skills (e.g., shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python)
- Solid knowledge of modern programing languages such as Java, PHP and their trending development environments/frameworks
- Any other relevant duties assigned by MAREN management from time to time.
Term of office
The SE shall be engaged on a 3-year contract which will be considered for renewal based on performance.
REMUNERATION
The positions above come with a competitive compensation and benefits package in accordance with MAREN’s existing structure of benefits.
HOW TO APPLY
Applicants are invited to submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and names and contact details of three traceable referees to the following link: https://forms.gle/RJShuWRWRnFXAY2h9
Applications should be received by noon of 05 September, 2025
To apply for this job please visit forms.gle.