Lead Corporate Infrastructure and Devops at TalentPool Nigeria

Salary: Negotiable

Purpose of the Job:

The role will have responsibility for all areas in infrastructure services including Information security, IT & Enterprise support systems, Datacenter management, Operational intelligence and Cloud management.

Responsibilities

Strategy & Planning

• Designs and implements short- and long-term strategic plans to ensure the organizations infrastructure capacity meets existing and future requirements with regards to employee usage and application hosting
• Analyses research findings and makes recommendations on products, services, protocols, and standards in support of all infrastructure procurement and development efforts  
• Establishes service and operational level agreements with business units
• Provides inputs to Business continuity and disaster recovery plans with respect to infrastructural implications Acquisition & Deployment
• Reviews RFPs, bid proposals, contracts, scope of work reports and other documentation for infrastructure acquisition projects and associated efforts
• Assists with the planning and deployment of infrastructure security measures Operational Management
• Functions as Senior System Administrator
• Oversees vendor and service provider relations management (Cisco, RackCentre, IPNX etc)
• Manages and sets priorities for the design, maintenance, development, and evaluation of all infrastructure systems, including LANs, WANs, Internet, intranet, security, wireless implementations, etc.
• Provides reliable, scalable and cost-effective cloud computing resources upon which the rest of the organization can buy/rent and host applications
• Oversees the database platforms upon which applications are deployed to service customers effectively
• Conducts feasibility studies for various upgrade projects, improvements, and other conversions.
• Defines hardware and software standards in conjunction with owners and stakeholders
• Ensures the integrity of the organizations electronically held information by performing regular reviews and testing of the back-up systems, disaster recovery planning and input into the Business Continuity plan where appropriate
• Provide periodic companywide training to all staff on infrastructure platforms, network, support tools etc.
• Line management/mentoring team of mid/junior infrastructure engineers

Education Qualification:

Minimum of bachelor’s degree in Computer/System/ Electrical/ Electronic Engineering/ Applied physics/ Computer Science or a related discipline

Professional Qualification:

Relevant certification

Experience

• Minimum of six (6) years’ experience in a similar function
• Infrastructure architecting
• Database administration
• Research, Server racking
• Bash scripting
• Cloud and Virtualization
• Devops
• Agile operation framework
• PCI DSS and ISO Compliance
• HSM