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Infrastructure Engineer Job in a Leading Logistic Service Provider Company


Hamilton Lloyd and Associates - Our client, a leading Logistic Service Provider Company. Due to internal expansion processes, we are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Infrastructure Engineer Location: Lagos Department: Internal IT Report To: Infrastructure Manager Job Summary

  • The Infrastructure Engineer shall ensure sound delivery of technical services for new and existing users.
  • He/she will be part of a team supporting a Windows environment that delivers hosted services to our users across our locations.
  • You will be looked upon as a subject matter expert and advocate to fellow team members on making reliable technical decisions around supporting and deploying large- scale services and engineering complex systems that run some of our customer's business critical systems.
  • The successful candidate for this role will have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, experience in integrating multi technology platforms and brands of product, solid communication skills and a desire to tackle the complex problems of scale which are unique.
  • The incumbent will be providing a mixture of preventative support as well as integration activity around Windows Server environment, VMWare, Hyper-V and more.
  • The Infrastructure Engineer will also be working in a fast-pace environment driving performance and reliability from software, infrastructure and cloud environments.
  • You will tackle challenging, unique situations every day and work with other functions and employees.
Job Responsibilities
  • Maintain and monitor all network, security and computer systems to meet the organization's current and future requirements
  • Responsible for management, maintenance and architecture of storage, virtualised environment, servers, network devices, and productivity tools
  • Professionally represent the infrastructure team as a technical consultant on projects.
  • Maintain the necessary project plans and documentation of all system builds and modifications
  • Interact and coordinate with vendors, suppliers, distributors and contract consultants.
  • Maintain a good working knowledge of current infrastructure and future trends.
  • Maintain good working relationships with all service providers and vendor to ensure that services received meet expected requirements of contract.
  • Monitor systems and identify performance issues proactively
  • Work within strict time frames and elevate incidents within defined time frames
  • Test all changes to networks, hardware, software, and hosted applications
  • Cater to doing infrastructure coordination related to design and setup activities at different stages of a project work with various vendors and service providers to ensure productive environment
  • Resolve issues and prepare status reviews and reports
Requirements Education and Experience:
  • Education: Tertiary Degree in Computer Science or related areas an advantage
  • Experience: 5 - 8 years of relevant experience
Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
  • Solid technical background in a hosted services environment including infrastructure networks, hardware, software and telecommunications
  • Experience with incident ticketing systems, workstation management systems and desktop imaging.
  • Good attention to detail, testing and documentation
  • Knowledge of ITIL and industry best practices
  • Strong virtualization experience using Hyper-V, VM Ware.
  • Proven ability to work in a cloud based or hosting environment
  • Proven track record with hosted desktop and published applications
  • Ability to maintain good working relationships with third party service providers and vendors.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange and SQL Server
  • Good knowledge of security as it relates to cloud based infrastructure
  • Experience using automated monitoring tools
  • Ability to identify incident trends in order to elevate incidents in accordance with standard protocols
  • Able to gather relevant information systematically to troubleshoot and resolve issues
  • Ability to work in a team environment
  • Good analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV's to: [email protected] kindly make the subject of the mail the job title. Note: Only successful candidates will be contacted. Application Deadline  20th January, 2017.