Founded in 2004, The First Microfinance Bank – Afghanistan (FMFB-A) is part of the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM), which has programmes in over 10 countries throughout the developing world. FMFB-A’s vision is to be recognized as the leading microfinance services provider contributing to poverty alleviation and economic development through the provision of sustainable financial services primarily targeting micro/small businesses and households. The bank provides credit and deposit products to a wide range of clients including micro, small and medium enterprises along with commercial banking and international remittance services.

The Oracle Solaris System Administrator will be responsible for setting up servers, installing servers, creating and implementing Linux configurations, networking servers, and troubleshooting.

The Oracle Solaris System Administrator looks after design, installation, maintenance, and retirement of the systems, application server, WebLogic Server, data, security of the systems that are at the core of the organization, This role is responsible for the Technical and server Administration for infrastructure: Designing, building and implementing IT infrastructure; Proving timely and high-quality completion of projects (Tasks and request and ensuring the IT infrastructure environment is up to data through proactive auditing and Patch management.

• Install, configure, upgrade, maintain, and troubleshoot Solaris, Linux, and Windows servers, operating systems, applications, and related infrastructure.
• Manage Production (PR) and Disaster Recovery (DR) environments, including load balancing, server migration, resource sharing, high availability, redundancy, backups, and business continuity solutions.
• Administer user accounts, Active Directory, storage systems (SAN, NAS, Oracle ZFS), virtual machines, and data center infrastructure.
• Monitor system performance, availability, security, backups, patches, upgrades, and disaster recovery readiness to ensure maximum uptime and operational efficiency.
• Provide technical support, automate routine administration tasks, maintain documentation, and manage incident and outage reporting.
• Administer Oracle FCCM, Oracle OBDX, Oracle WebLogic Servers, Smart Banking systems, and other enterprise applications.
• Collaborate with IT Security, Network, and vendor teams to maintain infrastructure integrity, security, compliance, and performance.
• Monitor data center operations, maintain standards and procedures, and recommend infrastructure improvements and technology upgrades.

Data Center Responsibilities:

• Oversee daily health monitoring and reporting of core data center infrastructure.
• Maintain documentation and event logs for processes and activities.
• Provide recommendations for procuring new data center equipment as needed.
• Keeping track of developing trends in data center technologies.
• Collaborating with IT Security and network teams on cybersecurity and network efficiency.
• Make sure the Data Center standard procedure followed by the team, units and vendor
• efficiently.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Solaris, Linux, Unix, and Windows system administration within enterprise or data center environments.
• Strong knowledge of Active Directory, PowerShell scripting, virtualization, storage technologies, server hardware, operating systems, networking, security, and disaster recovery.
• Excellent communication, documentation, reporting, and problem-solving skills.

If you meet the above requirements, we are encouraging you to apply for this position. Please send us your CV along with a cover letter via email (vacancies@fmfb.com.af).

Please make sure that your email includes the vacancy ID as the subject line.

For more information, please visit the FMFB-A website: https://www.fmfb.com.af/jobs/it-solaris-system-administrator/.