Infrastructure Specialist at Maryland Global Initiatives Corporation Nigeria (MGIC)
Employment Nigeria
01-Mar-2018
ABUJA ,
Technical
Maryland Global Initiatives Corporation Nigeria (MGIC) is a non-profit affiliate of UMB with a mission to administratively support international operations of UMB Principal Investigators. Our purpose is to provide the administrative infrastructure for sizable and sustained operations outside of the U.S.
Job Title: Infrastructure Specialist
Responsibility
- Manage, configure, secure, support and troubleshoot applications and services on associated physical servers, virtual servers, networks, storage systems and information security systems.
- Ensure all systems remain functional, available and secure.
- installing and configuring computer hardware, software, systems, networks, printers and scanners
- supervising junior engineering and technical staff
- BASH scripting support, troubleshooting and maintenance.
- Maintain the VMWare/vSphere environment including vCenter and VMWare servers.
- Support of storage technologies such as SAN, NAS and fiber switches and protocols such as iSCSI, NFS, FC and FCoE
- Optimize storage services by utilizing techniques such as replication (synchronous and asynchronous), snapshots, de-duplication, encryption and data protection.
- Secure the computing environment using best practices and consistent processes. Contribute to the information security practice via sound administrative practices and proactive actions.
- Configure, deploy and maintain network components including switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls, VPN concentrators and security appliances.
Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar technical discipline; or, equivalent demonstrable experience.
Experience:
- 5 years systems development and Network infrastructure support experience
Specialized knowledge:
- Proficient knowledge of Windows Server OS architecture, design, management, scripting and troubleshooting.
- Proficient knowledge of Linux based OS architecture, design, management, scripting and troubleshooting.
- Adequate understanding of VMWare (virtualization) architecture, core services and administration.
- Adequate understanding of storage technologies and protocols.
- Proficient understanding of security best practices.
- Proficient knowledge of LAN and WAN technologies and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, SNMP, etc.).
- Adequate understanding of applied network principles, including sub-netting, performance monitoring, scalability and disaster recovery.
- Proficient Backup/restore processing experience.
- Pass a background check as well as an alcohol, controlled substance, and illegal drug screen that meets Company standards before beginning regular employment.
Skills:
- Strong organizational, time management, computer and communication skills, leadership, coaching and team building skills to strengthen and cultivate relationship to help achieve organizational goal.
- Ability to recognize the sensitivity to individual organizations needs and the impact on services of the introduction of IT solutions.
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