Latest Vacancies at Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners

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Our client requires an IT infrastructure senior specialist to work in the following:

• Develop short term and long term IT infrastructure technology roadmap.
• Diagnose and ascertain technology requirements; make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IT infrastructure and systems
• Direct research and other analysis to support IT planning; direct research on potential technology solutions
• Develop business cases and undertake cost-benefit analyses to justify or support IT spending and initiatives.
• Negotiate, administer and manage vendor, outsourcer, and consultant contracts and service agreements with in conjunction with Procurement and other relevant business units
• Manage all aspects of the IT Department including the financial purchasing, budgeting, and budget review.
• Manage the delivery or provision of a complete range of Information Technology Services covering storage, systems and devices, ERP etc
• Implement IT projects and initiatives efficiently and effectively for best outcomes; approve and oversee projects and project portfolio.
• Manage the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of all IT systems, including servers, PCs, operating systems, hardware, software, and peripherals.
• Oversee provision of end-user services, including help desk and technical support services

· Experience:
At least 8 years’ experience which includes:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in an area of specialization; with experience in supervising/managing others
• Experience working in a medium to large organization
• Experience in IT and Business and systems Analysis and related disciplines; specifically IT infrastructure and Solution environment
• · Experience in UNIX, LINUX, SOLARIS and ORACLE.
• Hands on experience at Enterprise Architecture level
• Experience in planning and managing Infrastructure based projects and services inclusive of demonstrated experience in Security solutions and technologies at or before deployment
• Strong experience working in a complex Infrastructure environment
• Strong experience in infrastructure architecture, data centers, servers, Database administration, Backup, Storage, SAN Switch and networks
• Experience with emerging technology, such as cloud computing, desktop virtualization, Hadoop, Mongo DB and Unified communications

Education:

• First degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent
• Fluent in English
• Masters advantageous.

Cetifications:

• Functional Skills Development
• Certified IS Security Practitioner (CISSP)
• COMTIA Adv. Security Practitioner (CASP)
• Secure Development
• Lead Implementer – Cyber Resilience
• Certified Governance Enterprise I
• ISO 27001 Lead Implementation
• ISO 27005 Risk management

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Details:

Our client requires an IT infrastructure senior specialist to work in the following:

• Diagnose and ascertain technology requirements; make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IT infrastructure and systems
• Direct research and other analysis to support IT planning; direct research on potential technology solutions
• Develop business cases and undertake cost-benefit analyses to justify or support IT spending and initiatives.
• Oversee network planning, design and optimisation of existing infrastructure.
• Ensure performance standards for WAN, LAN Mast providers/vendors are met and adequate security is maintained across network infrastructures.
• Monitor overall network performance, analysis and review to ensure highly stable and predictable network.
• Ensure availability of links and network resources.
• Ensure network capacity management by leading the improvement of procedures and standards.
• Manage all aspects of the IT Department including the financial purchasing, budgeting, and budget review
• Manage the delivery or provision of a complete range of Information Technology Services covering networks, telecommunications, systems and devices, ERP etc
• Negotiate, administer and manage vendor, outsourcer, and consultant contracts and service agreements with in conjunction with Procurement and other relevant business units.
• Implement IT projects and initiatives efficiently and effectively for best outcomes; approve and oversee projects and project portfolio.
• Manage the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of all IT systems, including servers, PCs, operating systems, hardware, software, and peripherals.
• Oversee provision of end-user services, including help desk and technical support services.

Experience:

• At least 8 years’ experience which includes:
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in an area of specialization; with experience in project management.
• Experience in IT and Business and systems Analysis and related disciplines;
• Experience in planning and managing Infrastructure based projects and services inclusive of demonstrated experience in Security solutions and technologies at or before deployment
• Strong experience working in a complex infrastructure environment
• Strong experience in infrastructure architecture, data centers, servers, Database, Backup, Storage, SAN Switch and networks
• Experience with emerging technology, such as cloud computing, desktop virtualization, Hadoop, Mongo DB and Unified communications
• Strong experience in network performance tuning, network design and implementation.
• Experience working in a medium to large organization
• specifically IT infrastructure and Solution environment
• Strong LAN experience.
• Hands on experience at Enterprise Architecture level
• Knowledge of relevant policies and regulations.

Education:
•First degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent
•Fluent in English
•Masters advantageous.

Certifications:

• Functional Skills Development
• Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
• Certified IS Security Practitioner (CISSP)
• COMTIA Adv. Security Practitioner (CASP)
• ITIL Foundation
• Secure Development
• Lead Implementer – Cyber Resilience
• Certified Governance Enterprise I
• ISO 27001 Lead Implementation
• ISO 27005 Risk management

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JOB OBJECTIVE: To oversee an effective data center and telecommunication management framework that delivers dependable and efficient support to the banks IT infrastructure.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Leverage on best technology to design and deploy reliable, effective and resilient power and cooling infrastructures to effectively support all branches, branch ATMs and offsite locations in accordance with industrial best practices to increase branch operational TAT.
• Ensure the availability of data center infrastructure at both production and data recovery sites
• Oversee the delivery of adequate support on infrastructures by ensuring the availability of all assets in data center locations at both production and data recovering sites
• Monitor changes in design metrics and make adequate recommendations for required capacity growth.
• Ensure the availability of the banks contact center and voice communication network.
• Supervise and ensure standard compliance procedures are strictly followed
• Evaluate and research new technologies that increase productivity and reduce cost.
• Project management of IT infrastructure deployment for new branches and branch network.

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES;

• Core
• Data Center Infrastructure design
• Power Management
• Telecoms/ voice networking
• Knowledge of relevant policy and regulations
• Knowledge of troubleshooting hardware and operational systems
• Stakeholder Management
• Service level agreement
• Communication
• Business savvy
• Customer focus
• Data / Information Management
• Negotiation
• Business Presentation Skills
• Vendor management
• Non core
• Reporting
• Project management

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

First degree in engineering, numerate, physical science. ITIL foundation, data center management.

EXPERIENCE

At least 4 years cognate experience

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JOB OBJECTIVE: To oversee and ensure security of the banks information asset and ensure compliance to IT standard.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Ensure review of the bank's information security policy and ensure compliance to the policy.
• Oversee the compliance to IT standards and relevant policies such as PCIDSS.
• Identify and advice management on security breaches.
• Develop processes for safeguarding information assets of the bank.
• Responsible for defining security frameworks for existing and new systems.
• Organize, coordinate, review, analyze and give detailed report of penetration testing, control and audit exceptions.
• Review and remediate on security report of the banks infrastructure by the IT security partners.
• Review and remediate on ASV report of the banks assets.
• Ensure optimization of security tools for value proposition
• Coordinate and develop process for IT security project
• Develop and drive the framework for regular sensitization of security awareness program to staff.

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES

• Core
• Information security.
• Network security.
• Operational risk management.
• Information systems audit.
• Policy formulation & implementation.
• Testing.
• Network planning & design.
• IT appreciation & application.
• Investigation.

Non-core

• Business continuity planning.
• Data/Information Management.

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

• Coaching & developing others
• interpersonal relations
• Initiative
• Decision quality & problem solving

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

First degree in a numerate or physical Science.

CCSP, CISA, CISSP, ISO 27001, ITIL, CEH.

EXPERIENCE

At least 8 years cognate experience in IT/Network security, Information security.