Senior Officer, ICT Infrastructure and Platforms Development at Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC Plc)

Details

• The role of this job holder is to carry out the identification and preparation of ICT facilities and deployment of ICT infrastructure; securing and provisioning power, building connectivity, cooling, CCTV monitoring, access control and lease as well as dark fiber connectivity between sites according to business requirements.
• Others include the provision of hardware resources for further configuration by specialist teams; monitoring, adhering to and enforcing strict access to ICT facilities as per policy.

Other Key Roles / Responsibilities:

• Ensure high availability of services to end users.
• Deployment of Power, Connectivity and Cooling for ICT Systems.
• Ensure tickets are resolved within team-defined SLOs.
• Enforce and adhere to access policy to secure data centers and highly secure ICT facilities.
• Enforce data privacy, data integrity and service availability.
• Carry out accurate capacity planning for ICT infrastructure.
• Provide inputs to budget preparation, tracking, reporting.

Administrative/Supportive:

• Support Lead in building a strong team to meet corporate requirements.
• Mentor and provide support to ensure professional growth of new team members

Education

• B.Sc in Computer Science, Engineering course.
• Network certifications a plus.
• Software development certification a plus.

Experience:

• Work experience in a multidisciplinary engineering team in a medium to large-size organisation.
• Minimum of 3-5 years cognate experience.
• Good operational knowledge of network systems, protocols, virtualization, cloud computing, SDN, load balancing.
• Work experience with the TCP/IP stack (DNS, DHCP, etc.).
• Good knowledge of electrical (including Solar and other renewable systems) and cooling systems.

Required Skills/Competencies:

• People skills.
• Project management skill.
• Good analytical, organizational and multitasking skills.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Self-motivated with focus on results.
• Attention to detail.
• Passion for excellence in serving users and addressing their needs.
• Good knowledge of dark fiber, leased wavelengths and data centers and data center switching and routing.
• CCTV, VoIP, Access Control Systems - Deployment and Maintenance experience