Nigerian Bank Jobs for a Back-up and Storage Officer(Phillips Consulting), July 2013

Phillips Consulting - Our client is one of the first banks to have been established in Nigeria and has a wide network of branches
An exciting opportunity exists for Back-up and Storage Officer, to support the Data Centre Manager in meeting the team’s strategic goals and objectives.


Job Title: Back-up and Storage Officer

Responsibilities:

• Are to ensure the IT/Data Center operations are on a very high standard and ensuring 100% availability, reliability and maintainability of all production systems.
• Storage systems administration and technical Support, and responsible for maintaining and ensuring high integrity data, and data disaster recovery.
• Provide first hand production support for all enterprise NetApp storages and Unix servers (E25K, F6800, F6500, V880, etc.).
• Supporting implementation of the bank’s Production platform and storage framework.
• Establish and Maintain seamless support to DBAs and Application Developers as regarding platform and storage requirement for availability and performance.
• Provide smart hand support as required to all other production related systems in the datacenter. (E.g.: Cognos server, Mantas, Mail and Exchange, DPM, etc.)
• Provide first level support to critical systems infrastructure equipment (e.g.: UPS, HVAC, etc.).
• Ensure daily flexcube database tape backup and restoration of database on the test environment for UAT.
• Symantec Veritas Cluster (SVC) and Storage Volume Manager (SVM) administration.
• Liaising and working with vendors in resolving technical issues and support.
• Responsible for backup ancillary applications and databases.
• Coordinate testing, upgrade and configuration of system files and services, and ensure changes are in accordance with appropriate operating procedures.
• Implement and Maintain System security policy and controls (Creating and maintaining of users privileges).
• Participating and Contribution to formulation of IT Policy and Strategic Plan in area of production system, storages and backup equipment administration. 
• Establish and administer data backup and recovery policies and procedures.
• Conduct Systems Performance Monitoring/Turning and Capacity Monitoring planning for future storage requirements of the databases.
• Proactively monitoring system performance and availability during the business hours.
• Perform other duties as requested by the Senior Infrastructure Manager/Datacenter Lead

Requirements:

• At least 3 years working experience in unix-solaris, storage and backup administration
• Good grade (1st or 2nd Class Upper) of University degree or HND with post graduate result in Computer Engineering or related courses;

• Expert knowledge of Oracle-Solaris Administration
• Expert Knowledge of Oracle-linux Administration
• Expert knowledge os NetApp Storage Administration.
• Adequate Knowledge of Backup Administration using NetBackup, Comvault and other third party software.
• Adequate knowledge of Data Recovery and Data Warehousing
• Knowledge of Oracle Database
• Technical skill in administer Datacenter infrastructures.
• Knowledge of Unix based systems like: E25K server, T5-2 server, etc.
• Adequate knowledge of major OS and IT Security
• Ability to work effectively and manage consultants
• Ability to keep abreast of new technology and innovation.
• Ability to determine what is best and suite our working environment.