Job Description
Job Identification: 1508
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Category: MTN Level 3H
Reports To: General Manager Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering
Division: Information Technology
Job Description
- Drive the delivery and implementation of all IT Infrastructure Operations projects ensuring the most optimal solution within time and budget is achieved.
- Analyze the capacity requirements and ensure the right underpinning scalable Infrastructure to support the Business needs for existing and new projects.
- Gather forecasted new and organic growth to manage demands from projects and technology upgrades.
- Provide guidance and leadership to a small team of Technical professionals and vendors on Infrastructure related matters. There will be a need to collaborate with other IT Teams within the Department and the wider group organization.
- Work closely with other departments to proactively ensure Infrastructure capabilities are capable of handling emerging and future business requirements.
- Recommend Technology upgrades, reviewing status and Requirements with application owners and Technology groups and defining the approach needed to meet requirements.
- Conduct complex technical evaluations, design reviews and recommend proposed physical/logical architectures and designs as applicable. Leverage on Cloud Technologies with Cloud first as the guiding principle.
- Provide Cloud computing guidance to ensure the best fit cloud solution for maximum efficiency, cost and business value.
- Provide inputs to overall IT strategy formulation for IT infrastructure considering operations, resilience, disaster recovery and application execution within infrastructure.
- Evaluate and recommend necessary changes in performance tuning, infrastructure design and monitoring to maximize use of available infrastructure.
- Provide guidance for filters, events, alerts, and dashboards and reporting in various monitoring tools to ensure end to end visibility
- Consult project engineers and managers to assure technology is suitably deployed and used to deliver applications along with technology solutions.
- Identify and analyze existing Infrastructure solutions for weaknesses and recommending system improvements. Ensure all identified operational risks are tracked to resolution in a timely manner.
- Determine critical processes for the successful resumption of business operations in the event of a disaster. Manage the testing and implementing when necessary, emergency procedures and disaster recovery plans.
- Apply effective risk controls to identify potential threats and minimize or remove a business impact.
- Be integral part of Major Incident Management group and drive consistent execution of operation processes and tasks.
- Design, build and implement standard Risk Assessments, Business Impact Analysis, and other Business Continuity tools and capabilities for digital transformation.
- Drive and own Backup and Recovery Policy
- Identify the work and levels of services that can be supported by the infrastructure systems.
- Review existing systems metrics and provide forecasts to management regarding systems requirements for optimal performance and monitor trends, risk and impact analysis forecasts.
- Use behavioral change management techniques to maintain business continuity and risk awareness capabilities across groups within IT function as we transit into a digital organization.
- Review the performance of individual team members and complete appraisals in accordance with the employee performance appraisal procedures and time schedules.
Education
- First Degree in any related discipline preferably Computer Science or equivalent
- Master's Degree in a relevant discipline is an added advantage
- ITIL Manager Certificate is an added advantage
- Certifications in Cloud and Infrastructure Technologies will be an added advantage
- Fluent in English.
Experience:
9 - 17 years’ experience which includes:
- Minimum of 3 years Manager track record in relevant sector/industry
- 5+ years in IT related disciplines; specifically computer infrastructure environment
- Experience working in an enterprise Telecoms environment
- Experience and Knowledge of various hardware platforms, Operating systems and applications
- Demonstrated experience working closely with, and across, multiple teams in a global organization; ability to build relationships both from a customer and technical point of view
- Prior work experience across diverse cultures and geographies is advantageous.