Cloud Systems Administrator at Alfred & Victoria Associates

Alfred & Victoria Associates is one of Nigeria’s leading ICT solution based company. Our company offers a wide range of services which are in high demand of today’s emerging market. AVA has three major arms which have been streamlined to meet our customer's needs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Cloud Systems Administrator

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• The role is critical to our Partners business success as the individual will be an extension of our Clients support teams.
• You will be required to perform technical and operational roles for the sites management.
• You will have the chance to multitask & utilize various technologies including Networking, VMWare/Hyper-V, Backup & Disaster recovery, Cloud environment, Security, MS Exchange, Active Directory, and Patching etc.
• You will also be exposed to ITSM/PSA tools like Connect Wise, Auto task, Service Now etc.
• Exposure to working with 3rd party vendors will be an add-on to your profile.

Key Role & Responsibilities

• Technical/ Operations advisor for our Partners.
• Converse with the Partners and their members on a day to day basis.
• Architecting infrastructure solutions to migrate customer services to Microsoft Azure
• Take clear technology/domain/innovation ownership for hosting architecture on our vendor cloud platforms as needed
• Coordinate with various depts. in the NOC, Managed Services and Partner teams and coordinate/escalate as necessary.
• Utilize tools that would facilitate coordination with NOC - IT Support Portal, PSA Access, Office 365, Skype, Slack G-Suites, IBM Connections or any other tools.
• Day-to-day management of the site, including supervising and monitoring the sites allotted for by the Partner.
• Resolving technical issues and other problems that may arise.
• Work with other partners/tools that the Partner uses for any support/escalations.
• Client interactions.
• Vendor and ISP management.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• At-least one of the following industry certifications is required:
  • Microsoft Server/ Cloud - MCSA/MCSE
  • MCITP
  • AWS Architect
  • G-Suites Deployment Specialist
  • VMWare & Microsoft Hypervisor technologies
  • CISCO Certified Network Associate/Professional (CCNA/CCNP)
• 3+ years working as a technical support Engineer or cloud architect
• Understanding of Microsoft Azure & AWS IaaS
• Proven experience with database administration
• Proven experience with database administration
• Skills and Competencies:
• Flexible to work in in 24/7 environment.
• Familiarity with the main data manipulation languages and the principles of database design.
• Excellent knowledge of data backup, recovery, security, integrity and SQL
• Previous experience with DBA case tools (frontend/backend) and third party tools
• Administration and maintenance of Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V)
• Administration and maintenance of O365 email service, ADFS and AD-Connect.
• Active Directory maintenance & management, clean-up.
• Administration and maintenance of Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013.
• Administration and maintenance of MS SQL
• Administration and maintenance of DNS, DHCP.
• Administration and maintenance of different Backup Solutions.
• Antivirus and Patch Management on Multiple Networks. Basic Networking.
• Responsible for Business continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning.

Salary
Very attractive.

Application Closing Date
3pm; 22nd November, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their tailored CV to: [email protected] using the "Job title" as subject of the email.

Note: Any application received after the above time will be automatically rejected.