IT System Engineer at MainOne

Location: Fabac, Lagos
Department: Corporate Services & Development
Job Type: Permanent

Responsibilities

• Responsible for design, installation, setup, and administration of current and future Infrastructure deployments such as Virtualization Solutions, Storage Systems and Cloud IaaS Solutions in a 24x7x365 environment.
• Work with team members including infrastructure engineers, database administrators, software development engineers and business liaisons to obtain data and storage requirements and deliver solutions to meet business needs.
• Capacity planning and implementation of SAN Storage infrastructure.
• Performance monitoring, troubleshooting proactive support analysis.
• Manage and support the Enterprise Backup Solution, and Tape Library system in a SAN environment and develop refined backup procedures and policies.
• Manage, Maintain and Support VMware Virtualization and Hyper-V infrastructure.
• Work with infrastructure owners to test and verify data archives
• Schedule backup jobs based on documented procedures and schedules.
• Day-to-day proactive monitoring, including monitoring error logs, database and log space, user activity, and resource utilization.
• Create scripts to automate system administration duties, database maintenance procedures and implement best practices, guidelines and policies.

Qualifications, Skills & Competencies

• A Minimum of B.Sc. Degree in Computer Science, Electrical / Electronics Engineering or any related discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in Enterprise Virtualization Solutions, VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, Storage and Backup Solutions.
• Certifications in VMware, EMC and other Virtualization/Storage/Backup Technology Required.
• Certification in Virtualization, Hardware & Operating Systems Maintenance, MS SQL, VMC on AWS and Microsoft Azure will be an advantage.

Demands of the Job:

• Process-driven, with strong analytical and planning skills.
• Technical & Professional proficiency.
• Strong coaching and team leadership skills.
• Very good problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent customer service orientation.
• Vendor relationship and negotiating skills.
• Business communication and project management skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with relevant areas of the business.
• Knowledge of and experience with:
  • Information systems
  • Unix/Linux, Windows AD, ERPs, LANS/WANS
  • Windows Server Environment, Microsoft SQL Server
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Oracle
  • Software development languages
  • Enterprise backup Solutions