The Dangote Group is one of Nigeria’s most diversified manufacturing conglomerates, which continues to grow its vision of becoming the leading provider of essential needs in Food and Shelter in Sub-Saharan Africa with sustained market leadership in Cement Manufacturing, Sugar Milling, Sugar Refining, Packaging Material Production and Salt Refining.
Description
- · Responsible for the maintenance, configuration, and reliable operation of servers.
- · Install and upgrade server components and software, manage virtual servers, and integrate automation processes
- · Troubleshoot hardware and software errors by running diagnostics, documenting problems and resolutions, prioritizing problems, and assessing impact of issues
- · Provide documentation and technical specifications to IT staff for planning and implementing new or upgrades of IT infrastructure
- · Perform or delegate regular backup operations and implement appropriate processes for data protection, disaster recovery, and failover procedures
- · Responsible for capacity, storage planning, and database performance
- · Monitor performance and maintain systems according to requirements
- · Troubleshoot issues and outages
- · Ensure security through access controls, backups and firewalls
- · Upgrade systems with new releases and model
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, System Administration, or a closely related field, or equivalent experience required
- Minimum of 3 years System Administration experience
- Experience with cloud services (Microsoft Azure)
- Experience with Unified Communications Solutions (Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, E1 and GSM Gateways).
- Experience with Backup, High Availability and Replication
- IT certifications in Linux and Microsoft
- Experience with Linux and Windows Server environments
- Experience with monitoring and Management Tools – SCCM, Azure Log Analytics/OMS
- Experience with security tools – Azure ATP, Microsoft Defender Security Center
- Experience with implementing and effectively developing IT Operations best practices, including expert knowledge of security, storage, data protection, and disaster recovery protocols
- Experience with virtualization, Hyper-V and VMWare.
- Experience with scripting and automation tools (Microsoft PowerShell).