Job at Seven Energy for an IT Team Lead

Seven Energy is an indigenous Nigerian oil and gas exploration, development, production and distribution company, with significant oil and gas assets and integrated operational gas infrastructure in the south east of Nigeria.

Seven Energy is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: IT Team Lead
Location: Nigeria
Job Purpose

• Provide IT support, to ensure the stable operation of Seven Energy’s IT Infrastructure, in line with business needs and company policies.  

• Administration of servers and end-user workstations on a primarily Microsoft Windows-based wide area network (WAN).
• Troubleshoot and support user problems prioritising and identify root cause; determine possible solutions; tests and implements solutions.
• Generate weekly and monthly reports on assigned KPIs.
• Provide out of hours remote IT support by responding to emergency situations as needed for the purpose of resolving immediate concerns.
• Train direct reports and users to use new and/or existing systems and applications.
• Create and maintain user and computer accounts in line with User Access Control policy across IT systems.
• Manage change controls, UAT and keeps management up to date on IT projects and issues.
• Carry out periodic audits of Seven Energy’s IT systems maintaining audit logs.
• Oversee software and application selection, installation and upgrades, coordinating assistance from third parties when necessary.
• Manage third party IT related service contracts.
• Administer network infrastructure (physical and virtual) for the purpose of ensuring effective and efficient networking systems.
• Plan and implement network security, including maintaining firewalls, configuring VPN, managing host security, file permissions, file system integrity, and adding and deleting users.
• Allocate and priortise resources to provide appropriate support to the business.
• Infrastructure administration & maintenance,  server backup, system updates, antivirus updates for the purpose of ensuring efficient operations

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, communications or related field & experience working with various networks, applications and systems.
• Windows 2012 Server administration and troubleshooting.
• Hyper-V or Virtualisation experience.
• Good analytical, problem solving skills to identify and resolve matters of significance.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to interface with internal and external customers and vendors.
• Able to work under pressure & adapt to changing requirements and requests. 
• 5+yrs or greater experience in IT/Network/Systems
• Good written, verbal skill & contract negotiation skills
• Expert knowledge of MS Office, Networking concepts, Windows server (DC, DHCP, Exchange 2008 - 2016) experience & ITSM processes.
• Cisco Certified Engineer/Professional with practical experience.
• Good knowledge of computer programming, and scripting.