For 15 years we have been building and managing telecommunications towers that are the essential backbone of mobile telecommunications in Africa - the leapfrog technology driving economic development, prosperity and self-sufficiency across the continent. Right now, IHS is leading a new telecoms service sector driven by the growth of middle class business and consumer demand for mobile and data. We are the partner of choice for Africa’s and the world’s leading network operators because they demand the widest reach and highest reliability for their customers, and the highest standards of governance and operational excellence for themselves. Our long-term contracts and strong sustainable cash flows mean IHS is a unique, low risk entry point for investment in Africa. Over the last four years, IHS has brought over US$5 billion of investment to the continent. Our belief is that the future economic and social development of Africa will be exponentially accelerated by mobile connectivity, and our team of over 1,000 engineers in five countries is focused on making this happen. We are committed to developing our people and the communities we serve, and to help people and businesses across the region build a powerful, prosperous future - by Africa and for Africa. IHS is Africa’s leading mobile infrastructure company. Founded in 2001 by an experienced team of engineers and business people, IHS serves clients responsibly in the building and managing of effective telecommunications infrastructure and by employing the highest quality people, services and equipment.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
- Deploy and manage VMs in both Cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
- Configuring VM for Optimum Cost, Performance, and Security.
- Backing up VMs and potentially providing failover recovery.
- Backing Up Data and making it efficient to restore when needed.
- Configuring long-term archival storage to maintain corporate compliance
- Encrypting data in transit, at rest, and in use.
- Responsible for the administration, monitoring, and maintenance of Azure server infrastructure.
- Install, configure, troubleshoot, backup and recovery, performance tune and secure Linux and Windows environments.
- Monitor and establish daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up.
- Resolves hardware/software interface and interoperability problems
- Installs/Configures/Maintains Enterprise storage area network (SAN).
- Participates in the ongoing process of investigating, analyzing and providing long-term resolutions to infrastructure issues.
- Coordinates across teams, working closely with peers to ensure the appropriate focus and sense of urgency are applied to all production issues.
- Works with third-party suppliers and vendors for support, upgrades and implementations (RMS Servers and POC Projects).
- Full understanding on Microsoft Azure cloud IAAS
- Provides infrastructure support for backend Windows based Order Management System.
- Hyperconverged Infrastructure Hardware and software administration.
- Maintain Server and datacenter asset register
- Provide Server availability report using ManageEngine OP Manager and Azure Monitor
- Build and maintain the unit operational procedure.
Other Specifics:
- Data Risk mitigation and remediations – identification of Business Continuity related risks (internal/external).
- Assurance for the organization’s operational resilience. The importance of testing BCP plans regularly – a litmus test for an organization’s readiness to face unexpected challenges
- Customer and stakeholder confidence – Scalable infrastructure and resource optimization leveraging DC Hyperconverged infrastructure, delivering essential functions such as data storage
- Hands-on management of the Business Resiliency program. Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Crisis/Incident Management
- Disaster Recovery Infrastructure deployment (Physical components and Hardware) and Plan (ITDR).
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree / Diploma in Computer Science, engineering, Information Technology
- Minimum of 3 - 5 Years working experience, preferably in a Telecommunication and IT solutions industry
- ITIL Foundation is required.
- Advance knowledge of Azure platform.
- Advance skill on Linux administration.
- Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification is recommended
- Background IT knowledge on Virtual Machines, Networks and other IT Infrastructure aspects.
- Advance knowledge of Windows server administration
- Advance knowledge of VMware ESXI administration
- CompTIA A+ certified is required or equivalent.
Job-Specific Competencies
Functional:?
- Configuration and administration of windows server OS and Linux, Azure, Hypervisor, VMware EXSi.
- Azure Administration
- Windows Server Administration.
- Veeam Backup Administration skills.
Behavioural:?
- Ability to communicate well in English
- Accountability
- Interpersonal skills
- Team work
- Analytical thinking
- Solution and result driven.
- Availability as required.
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