Team Lead, Infrastructure Administrator

Team Lead, Infrastructure Administrator

We are a leading Pension Fund Administrator (PFA) in Nigeria. We pride ourselves in creating a warm environment where everyone can thrive.

• Day-to-day on-call administration and support of on-premise exchange servers, databases and archiving of mailboxes as set in IT policy
• Network management, monitoring and optimization
• Preventive Server and Workstation maintenance
• Ensuring all hardware are under support and warranty cover
• Ensure redundancy is completely built into the system to eliminate service failure
• Report and prepare strategies to maintain server infrastructure.
• Management of infrastructure at remote branch office
• Sourcing & purchasing of hardware/replacement parts and consumables
• Vendor Management, review of  contracts and enforcement of policy
• Managing Information Technology CMDB and coordinate the distribution of equipment
• Datacentre Management & Environmental monitoring

Qualifications

• University degree in the field of computer science, engineering or information systems.
• Holds VMWare Certified Professional certification
• Holds Network related certification.
• Any of the following Microsoft certification preferred: Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA), Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA),  and Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE)

• 10+ years of experience managing from client to server-end infrastructure.
• Proven experience in IT infrastructure strategic planning and development, project management, and policy development.

• Strong knowledge of hypervisors (preferably Windows Hyper-V or VMware’s ESX/ ESXi, VMware vCenter server management)
• Configure, test, and maintain LAN equipment and services, including switches, routers, firewalls and VPN.
• Hands on experience with storage technologies iSCSI, FC and storage devices NAS/SAN.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, and Office System is required..
• Standard system administration duties including server install, System/Application install and patch management, Windows problem determination and resolution, log analysis, etc.
• Participate in the creation, maintenance, testing, and execution of the Disaster Recovery plan.