Recruitment at Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners - Our client is recruiting to fill the position below:  

Job Title: IT Infrastructure Specialist Location: Lagos Job Type: Contract

Job Description We are in need of an IT infrastructure senior specialist to work in the following:

• Manage all aspects of the IT Department including the financial purchasing, budgeting, and budget review.
• Manage the delivery or provision of a complete range of Information Technology Services covering storage, systems and devices, ERP etc
• Implement IT projects and initiatives efficiently and effectively for best outcomes; approve and oversee projects and project portfolio.
• Manage the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of all IT systems, including servers, PCs, operating systems, hardware, software, and peripherals.
• Oversee provision of end-user services, including help desk and technical support services.
• Develop short term and long term IT infrastructure technology roadmap.
• Diagnose and ascertain technology requirements; make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IT infrastructure and systems
• Direct research and other analysis to support IT planning; direct research on potential technology solutions
• Develop business cases and undertake cost-benefit analyses to justify or support IT spending and initiatives.
• Negotiate, administer and manage vendor, outsourcer, and consultant contracts and service agreements with in conjunction with Procurement and other relevant business units

Requirements Education:

• Fluent in English
• Masters advantageous.
• First degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent

Experience:

• At least 8 years’ experience which includes:
  • Experience in planning and managing Infrastructure based projects and services inclusive of demonstrated experience in Security solutions and technologies at or before deployment
  • Strong experience working in a complex Infrastructure environment
  • Strong experience in infrastructure architecture, data centers, servers, Database administration, Backup, Storage, SAN Switch and networks
  • Experience with emerging technology, such as cloud computing, desktop virtualization, Hadoop, Mongo DB and Unified communications
  • Minimum of 3 years’ experience in an area of specialization; with experience in supervising/managing others
  • Experience working in a medium to large organization
  • Experience in IT and Business and systems Analysis and related disciplines; specifically IT infrastructure and Solution environment
  • Experience in UNIX, LINUX, SOLARIS and ORACLE.
  • Hands on experience at Enterprise Architecture level

Cetifications:

• Lead Implementer – Cyber Resilience
• Certified Governance Enterprise I
• ISO 27001 Lead Implementation
• ISO 27005 Risk management.
• Functional Skills Development
• Certified IS Security Practitioner (CISSP)
• COMTIA Adv. Security Practitioner (CASP)
• Secure Development

 

Job Title: ITSM Release Manager Location: Lagos

Job Description

• We are in need of a dynamic ITSM Release Manager who will work on:
• Integrating IT Release management activities into the overall project and demand management plan.
• Driving faster adoption, greater ultimate utilization and higher proficiency on the Releases impacting the business.

Responsibilities

• Innovative approaches to the analysis of information and generation of useful information from it.
• Coordinate and manage the process of planning, building, testing and deploying of MTNN IS hardware, application and software and version control and storage of software and releases
• Coordinate, convenes, and facilitates Release Management meetings and maintain a schedule of approved and tentative releases
• Verify the completeness and timeliness of Release information entered into the system and follows up on non-compliant release to the process.
• Coordinate and monitor the MTNN IS patch management process to guide against viral attack
• Ensure the effective monitoring of patches deployed in the environment
• Refine processes that identify, control, maintain and verify all changes and releases in controlled environments
• Identify improvement areas in the project delivery cycle and implement lessons learnt following project closure
• Ensure adherence to and alignment with change management process
• Conduct post implementation reviews for all products and services, maintaining an updated tracker for all identified issues while ensuring prompt resolution within agreed SLAs
• Produce ad hoc resource usage reports and analysis
• Create monthly, quarterly release schedule calendar and ensure compliance to proposed go-live dates
• Evaluate, prioritize multiple clients’ needs internal and external of the business.
• Keep abreast of business process changes and communicate these to all stakeholders.

Job Requirements

• First degree in Computer Science or an IT equivalent degree
• Practitioner Certificate in ITIL - IT Service Transition or equivalent certification
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in area of specialization with experience working with people
• Experience in a medium organization
• Experience IT Service Support and Delivery Experience
• Experience in governance of enterprise information systems
• Min 1 year Release Management Experience
• Project management Experience
• Experience in handling Release management issues
• Experience working with a range of service
• Provides Understanding of service delivery and service support environments.

 

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV in MS word format, current and expected salary to: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] , [email protected] with the Job Title as the subject of the mail.