Network Architect at Tastee Fried Chicken - TFC

Roles & Responsibilities

• Responsible and accountable for the smooth running of IT Infrastructure within the limits of requirements, specifications, costs and timelines.
• Supervise the implementation and maintenance of the company’s computing needs/ information technology systems.
• Recommend information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes, identifying problems, and anticipating organizational requirements.
• Collaborate with Corporate Communications department towards achieving the needed communication collaterals and projects.
• Utilize in-depth technical knowledge and business requirements to design and implement secure solutions to meet customer / client needs while protecting the corporation's assets.
• Preserve assets by implementing disaster recovery, backup procedures, information security and control structures.
• Accomplish financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective action.
• Conduct audits of currently implemented technologies in to verify the results of their applications and proffer recommendations.
• Develop requirements, outlines, budgets, and schedules for information technology projects.
• Provide expertise on system upgrades and necessary installations among IT wares.
• Must be able to handle general internal and external services to ensure organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Monitoring the viability of processes as well as IT asset performance in all branches (i.e. Tracking).
• Be constantly abreast with the latest technology and determine new technologies that may be integrated to foster IT optimization.
• Working with other departmental heads towards the attainment of the company’s objectives.
• Involvement in the development of business strategies.
• Responsible for research and development focused towards creativity and innovation that will aid management’s decision.
• Establish networking environment by designing system configuration, directing system installation and defining, documenting and enforcing system standards.
• Design and implement new solutions and improve resilience of the current environment.
• Maximize network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages, scheduling upgrades and collaborating with network architects on network optimization.
• Undertake data network fault investigations in local and wide area environments using information from multiple sources.
• Secure network systems by establishing and enforcing policies, and defining and monitoring access.
• Support and administer firewall environments in line with IT security policy.
• Report network operational status by gathering and prioritizing information and managing projects.
• Upgrade data network equipment to the latest stable firmware releases.
• Configure routing and switching equipment, hosted IP voice services and firewalls.
• Provide remote support to on-site engineers and end users/customers during installation.
• Provide remote troubleshooting and fault finding if issues occur upon initial installation.
• Undertake capacity management and audit of IP addressing and hosted devices within data centres.
• Liaise with project management teams, third-line engineers and service desk engineers on a regular basis.

Requirements

• B.Sc in Computer Science, Information Technology or other related fields.
• At least 5 - 8 years relevant experience.
• Professional certification in MCSE, MCSA, MCP, CCNA.