Job Opportunity at NMB Bank, Specialist Dc Servers Infrastructure

 

Specialist Dc Servers Infrastructure (1 Position)

Job Location :Head Office

Job Purpose:To plan, organize and drive the evolution of the strategic containerization, virtualization, storage, backup, replication and recovery program that adapts to a rapidly changing business needs while offering key standardized functions across the organization.

Main Responsibilities:

• Manages and deliver server infrastructure related projects (Servers, backup and storage systems).
• Develop and Implement effective strategies to improve availability, recoverability, scalability and security on server infrastructure systems (Compute, network and storage–NAS, DAS &SAN nodes).
• Maintain and analyze metrics to identify harmful trends, capacity forecasting and planning inputs.
• Design, implement and provide ongoing support of the on premise and cloud server infrastructure.
• Coordinate the efforts of the different operational areas under management to ensure minimal duplication of efforts, maximum efficiency and to maximize value for money.
• Stay abreast of industry and operational trends and role players and ensure that the bank is well positioned to provide competitive and industry leading services.
• Perform basic and complex troubleshooting, diagnostic analysis, and replication of technical problems with operating systems and hardware.
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the servers’ infrastructure space.
• Provide proactive system monitoring, fix incidents and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks.
• Install, configure, test and maintain system management tools, SAN and tape infrastructure and server plugins with the latest hardware and software patch and firmware versions.
• Maintain system uptime (both hardware and software level) on network, storage and compute nodes.
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.
• Maintain virtualization, storage, security, backup and redundancy strategies.
• Develop/write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as monitoring with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems and provide 2nd level support.
• Ensure technical documentation exists i.e. policies, processes and procedures for all compute nodes, backup and storage infrastructure.
• Provide real-time reporting of backup storage consumed and utilized resources to include performance metrics for tape and disk space consumption, storage availability, performance and trends.

Attributes:

• Ability to present technical data in a comprehensive, yet clear manner.
• Expert Virtualization technologies knowledge in CI and HCI arena and centralized backup system administration.
• Excellent communication and listening skills.
• Good interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills in English and Swahili.
• Strong Planning and organizing skills.
• Project Management skills.
• Decision, Conceptual and Analytical skills.
• SLA and Vendor Management skills.
• Qualifications and Experience:
• At least Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or any related academic field.
• IT professional certifications in VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV), ITIL, Professional VMware NSX-T Data Center, VMware vSphere with Tanzu Specialist.
• Minimum of three (3) overall years’ experience on server infrastructure support.
• Experience :3.0 Year(s)

The deadline for submitting the application is 07 January 2022.

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