Jobs in Lagos at KPMG, October 28th 2014
KPMG
is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and
Advisory Services. Our vision is to build and sustain our reputation as
the best firm to work with by ensuring our people, clients and
communities achieve their full potential.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: IT Operations Supervisor
Auto req ID: 101791BR
Location: Lagos
Roles and Responsibilities
- Provide effective coordination for a 7-8 person operations team
- Ensure availability of IT systems and infrastructure
- Ensure that service desk tickets are managed within client SLAs
- Build, configure and deploy laptops and servers with SCCM
- Ensure processes and procedures are followed to deliver efficient service
- Establishes or recommends policies and procedures for system use, services and security.
- Provide project management coordination for projects/programs
- Plans and implements system security procedures, to include
firewalls, host and client access, file permissions, and user accounts.
- Develop technical user documentation
- Performs other information technology duties as required to support the work of the unit.
Qualifications and Skills
1. Functional competencies:
- Experience in people management
- Decision making abilities
- Issue resolution abilities
2. Technical competencies:
- Service management skills (ITIL certification is required)
- Cisco networking skills (CCNP certification is required)
- Project management skills
- Knowledge of storage technologies (HP, NetApps)
- Knowledge of Symantec BackupExec
- Working knowledge of virtualization technologies (VMWare and Hyper V)
- Hands-on experience with Windows Server technologies (Server 2008, Server 2012)
- Knowledge of Windows Active Directory and Exchange 2010
- Good understanding of telecommunications systems (Alcatel and Avaya PBX)
- Proficiency in use of Operating system deployment tools (Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager)
3. Professional competencies:
- Result driven with strong analytical skills
- Excellent communication skills; written and verbal
- Good customer service/relationship skills
- Continuous improvement mentality
- Ability to perform effectively under pressure
Experience and Background
- University Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline.
- Relevant Microsoft, Cisco or equivalent professional qualification
- Minimum of 7 years relevant core IT networking and service desk experience in a multinational environment
- Broad knowledge of current IT development and integration technologies and best practice.
- 5+ years of expertise in implementing, administering, and
troubleshooting network infrastructure devices, including: firewalls,
routers, switches, wireless access points and controllers, and
monitoring applications.
- Intermediate to expert understanding of firewall configuration and maintenance.
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Helpdesk Supervisor
Auto req ID: 101788BR
Location: Lagos
Roles and Responsibilities
1. Helpdesk Supervision
- Direct the activities of a 5-person helpdesk team ensuring
proper distribution of workload and monitoring escalations till
resolution.
- Provide project management coordination/assistance to the
helpdesk team for all deployment projects, ensuring projects are
completed within agreed business timelines.
- High priority incidents and ensure resolution or upward escalations and incident management within agreed business SLA’s.
- Provide on-the-job training to team members.
- Develop technical user documentation.
2. Asset Management
- Ensure all IT assets are accounted for and records entered into central asset database.
- Monitor spares availability.
- Monitor maintenance availability for defective or damaged IT equipment.
- Mange external vendors
3. Reporting
- Analyze helpdesk tickets to ensure SLA metrics are been met
- Provide reports for problem detection and management.
- Ensure maintenance of Helpdesk incident logging database
- Create report templates as required by the business
4. Second Line Support
- Assist with incidents that have been escalated by first line support.
- Use tools available in order to solve escalated problems.
- Keep first line support function informed of delays and
completion in the problem resolution process so that they can provide
the client with status updates and feedback.
- Manage the Helpdesk database and liaise with clients on a regular basis, as the need requires.
5. Security Role (National Information Security Specialist – NISS)
The National Information Security Specialist is responsible to the NITSO
for maintaining the security of data held on the firm’s IT systems as
specified.
- Ensure that appropriate access control methods and tools are in place for all systems.
- Ensure that systems adequately protect the availability, integrity and confidentiality of stored information.
- Ensure that methods for data encryption are available and used where appropriate.
- Provide guidance and support on information security practices
to development projects to ensure that systems developed provide
adequate information security.
- Provide guidance and support on information security practices
to operations and end user support staff to ensure that systems in use
provide adequate information security.
- Add newly identified information security issues and risks to the security issues and risks database.
- Progress actions allocated through the security issues and risks database.
- Periodically check for additional security update from the Global Desktop Release Management Site.
- Responsible for regular monitoring and reporting on the achievement of the third-party service level performance criteria
Qualifications and Skills
Skills required:
1. Functional competencies:
- Experience in people management
- Decision making abilities
- Issue resolution abilities
2. Technical competencies:
- Service management skills (ITIL certification would be an advantage)
- Project management skills
- Ability to understand and work in a complex technical processing environment through use of sophisticated and leading edge tools
- Proficiency in use of Operating system deployment tools (Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager)
3. Professional competencies:
- Results driven
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to meet deadlines and targets
- Clear communication in English, both verbal and written
- Superior customer service skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to lead a team
- Continuous improvement mentality
- Adaptable to change
- Ability to work in a fast pace, high pressure work environment
Experience and Background
- At least 7 years working experience in helpdesk environment
- At least 2 years supervisory experience
- Ability to write documentation to describe program development, logic, coding and corrections.
- Enthusiasm, can-do attitude
- Good relationship building skills.
- Good customer service/relationship skills
- Excellent communication skills; written and verbal.
- Patience in resolving problems and supervising subordinates.
- Ability to carry out duties in a well-organised and proactive manner.
- Ability to perform effectively under pressure.
- Detailed knowledge of Standard IT Service delivery methodology
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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