New Job Vacancies at Alfred and Victoria Associates, 3rd July, 2019

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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: Machine Learning Engineer Location: Nationwide Department: Technology Job Level: Senior Reports to: Chief Technology Officer Supervision: Chief Technology Officer Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Understanding business objectives and developing models that help to achieve them, along with metrics to track their progress.
• Managing available resources such as hardware, data, and personnel so that deadlines are met.
• Analysing the ML algorithms that could be used to solve a given problem and ranking them by their success probability.
• Analysing the errors of the model and designing strategies to overcome them.
• Work closely with Data Engineers and Data Scientists to create analytical variables, metrics and models.
• Work with Data Scientists to solve difficult engineering and machine learning problems and produce high-quality code.
• Identify and use the right analytical libraries, programming languages and frameworks for each task, while developing your abilities and understanding of data science methodologies and approaches.
• Contribute to coding and engineering practices across all projects.
• Exploring and visualizing data to gain an understanding of it, then identifying differences in data distribution that could affect performance when deploying the model in the real world.
• Verifying data quality, and/or ensuring it via data cleaning.
• Supervising the data acquisition process if more data is needed.
• Defining validation strategies.
• Defining the pre-processing or feature engineering to be done on a given dataset.
• Defining data augmentation pipelines.
• Refactor code into reusable libraries, APIs and tools.

Qualification/Competencies Required

• First Degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or another related field.
• Hands on experience with standard machine learning libraries like numpy, pandas, sklearn,, tensorflow, keras etc.
• Worked in end to end integration of ML models to the platforms which includes deployment, retraining monitoring of models.
• Ability to connect ML model predictions to the business metrics.
• Minimum of One- two 2-4 years working experience on Machine Learning in a fast paced and complex business setting.
• Experience as a software engineer with a deep interest in Analytics and Data Science is an added advantage.
• Ability to engineer beautiful code and work on varied data science projects across multiple industries
• Proven knowledge of object-oriented programming e.g. Scala, Java, C++ etc is an added advantage.
• Knowledge of at least one scripting language e.g. Python, Perl, R etc.
• Good knowledge of database management languages e.g. SQL, PostgreSQL or Object-based databases.
• Knowledge of statistics, machine learning and data analytics techniques.
• Knowledge of Big Data technologies, such as Spark, Hadoop/MapReduce is desirable but not essential.

Salary Very attractive.     Job Title: DevOps Engineer Location: Lagos Job Level: Senior Department: Technology Reports to: Chief Technology Officer Supervision: Chief Technology Officer Job Duties and Responsibilities

• You will be the custodian of all production systems powering various products and service offerings across Publishers, Ad Exchanges, Telcos and Financial Services. These products deliver the most relevant content and ads real-time.
• We run one of the largest AWS workloads in Africa with hundreds of servers. Our ambition as a business provides you an opportunity to strategically influence the evolution of a world-class production platform, processes, methodologies, technologies and so much more.
• You will be involved in decision making and in rolling out the changes with your team.
• Your ability to adapt to a fast-moving environment will be a key element to our success. Your technical background and autonomy will help you fit with in.
• We are still a young company where there is still a lot to build and drive.
• Implement and manage a CI/CD Pipeline.

Qualification/Competencies Required

• 2-4 years’ experience as a DevOps engineer.
• Knowledge of AWS services and extensive experience deploying dev, staging and production workloads.
• Hands on experience with container technologies like Docker / Kubernetes.
• Strong hands-on experience in Systems Engineering/DevOps is required.
• Experience in working on a Linux production platform, running Web Services (NginX, Apache, etc)
• Demonstrated a strong knowledge of Linux Systems or Windows.
• Fundamentals (CentOS, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012)
• Strong experience in scripting with one of the following languages: Python, Bash etc.
• Good understanding of networking concepts (load balancers, routers) as well as System Administration.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting problems, including impact assessment.
• Experience in working with local and remote teams to resolve large scale production issues and escalation to the right level.
• Skills in identifying recurring issues to design and implement automatic response.
• Strong experience with either automation frameworks Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc) and/or monitoring tools (Nagios, Centreon, Graphite, Kibana etc) or configuration management.
• Experience with performance monitoring/tuning.
• Experience working with large scale deployments in cloud or hybrid environments.
• Proficiency with incident management.

Salary Very attractive.       Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Location: Lagos Department: Technology Reports to: Software Engineering Manager Supervision: Software Engineering Manager Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Work through the full life-cycle management, including requirements analysis, technical design, implementation, testing and documentation.
• Create technical test specifications and schedule estimates for new products.
• Contribute to the development of both internal and partner software integration projects, as well as new web and mobile applications.
• Maintain and extend existing codebase and libraries.
• Communicate complex ideas with ease, both in person and in writing.
• Provide escalated ticket/incident management for supported applications as well as will participate in defect management, issue tracking/trending.
• Taking leadership in owning issue resolution and driving them to completion.
• Ensuring that incident and problem management processes and procedures are followed and adhered to standards.
• Communicating to end users, engineers, and operations.
• Provide performance /capacity metrics and ad hoc reporting of the same.
• Provide technical expertise and share knowledge with team as required.
• Monitor the application performance and provide technical support as required.

Qualification/Competencies Required

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or any Physical science.
• 4-5 years working experience in AdTech.
• Prior ad tech industry experience. The ideal candidate will know what Programmatic, DSP, DMP, CPM, OTT and ad serving means and demonstrate the ability to explain it to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Exposure to distributed systems and big data.
• Professional experience with Java, Cassandra, Kafka, Aerospike
• Knowledge of mobile app SDKs, APIs, RTB platforms/specs
• Strong knowledge of concurrent collections, multi-threading, JVM memory model, etc.
• Great understanding of designing for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• In-depth understanding of object-oriented programming concepts.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Understanding of full software development life cycle, agile development and continuous integration
• Good knowledge of Linux command line tools.
• Solid understanding of database fundamentals, good knowledge of SQL.

Salary Very attractive.       Job Title: Senior Enterprise Engineer & Solutions Architect Location: Lagos Job Level: Senior Department: Technology Reports to: Chief Technology Officer Supervision: Chief Technology Officer Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers on deployment of innovative solutions to streamline & automate critical business processes and maintain corporate IT infrastructure, application services, enterprise software platforms and data pipelines.
• Develop, maintain and drive execution on 3-6 months, 12-18 months and 3-5-year roadmaps along with key operational metrics.
• Ensure system security, data integrity and accuracy of information across the business.
• Troubleshoot, and present custom solutions to any and all potential customer problems.
• Provide customer feedback in a timely manner to Product department to ensure future product development is aligned with clients’ needs.
• Manage projects, acting as technical advisor to clients.
• Support the development of cross-functional business processes; identify alternative solutions, assess feasibility, and recommend new approaches via technology enablement.
• Provide thought leadership in emerging technologies to the Solutions Architecture team.
• Support cloud and managed service provider partners in creating a cohesive solution across multiple organizations.
• Champion engineering excellence, establishing business metrics, and drive continuous operational improvement.
• Collaborate with technology and business teams to develop and maintain end-to-end project plans, ensuring on-time delivery, including drafting requirements, using and testing cases as well as support and escalation plans.
• Drive internal and external process improvements across multiple teams and functions.
• Provide strategic and operational oversight for IT tools, vendors and enterprise operations.
• Design and implement tools/framework to improve productivity and reinforce the security of the corporate infrastructure and IT systems.
• Communicate timelines, service dependencies, resource constraints and progress with key stakeholders quickly and effectively.
• Develop and manage end-to-end project plans to ensure on-time delivery, effective risk management and change management on projects.
• Work in a heterogeneous environment containing diverse operating systems and applications, and make them work well together.
• Architect highly available, scalable, secure systems and Implement IT change management policies to ensure data integrity and system stability.
• Liaise with and offers strategic direction to related governance functions (such as Risk Management, IT, HR, Legal and Compliance) plus senior and middle managers throughout the organization as necessary, on information security matters such as routine security activities plus emerging security risks and control technologies.
• Leads the preparation and the implementation of necessary information security policies, standards, procedures and guidelines
• Lead the operation, support and maintenance of the Information Security Management System based on the ISO/IEC 27000 series standards, including maintaining our certification against ISO/IEC 27001.
• Design, deploy and maintain network/internet and cloud infrastructure across all office locations.
• Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug problems where required.
• Manage cross-functional technology projects in a matrixed organization with deep understanding of performance metrics to prioritize for the most business value/impact.
• Drive the continued development of our vendor management framework and manage relationships, contractual commitments, SLAs and governance processes for a set of vendors providing services to Enterprise Engineering.

Qualification/Competencies Required

• B.Sc/MSc in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5-10 years of experience in Telecommunications, Data Center, Banking, Cloud or related industries.
• 4+ years of experience building and/or maintaining Enterprise software/hardware systems in Telco, banking, consulting and internet businesses.
• 4+ years’ experience with setup and configuration of end-user work tools and corporate IT infrastructure.
• Technical expertise around analytical tools, methodologies and design, and build vs buy trade-offs.
• with cloud infrastructure like AWS, azure, Google cloud and file sharing services such as Dropbox, OneDrive, iCloud or equivalent.
• Experience with Proven track record and experience in developing information security programs, policies and procedures, including successful implementations in large enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of common information security management frameworks, such as ISO/IEC 27001, COBIT, NIST, CSA and deep knowledge and understanding of relevant legal and regulatory requirements/standards, including but not limited to: FERPA, HIPAA, COPPA, and PCI DSS.
• Knowledge of project management tools and methodologies and experience with roadmap prioritization in an agile environment (Kanban, scrum, sprints).
• Experience working with a ticketing system such as Atlassian Jira, ServiceDesk, Asana, Remedy, ServiceNow, Zendesk or equivalent.
• Experience in understanding code bases, including API design techniques, best practices as documentation.
• Knowledge and direct experience using business intelligence reporting tools. (Tableau, MicroStrategy, QlikView, Quick sight).
• Organizational, coordination and multi-tasking experience within in a 100+ user environment with ability to map dependencies and relationships between projects and technologies.
• Experience deploying and maintaining ERP, MIS and CRM systems within tech or tech-enabled businesses especially online advertising, ecommerce or any other internet business.
• Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications such as Apache, Nginx, Squid, DHCP, SSH, DNS,PFSense.
• Extremely sound knowledge of network fundamentals, operational and troubleshooting experience with Layer 2 Switching protocols.
• Experience with VPNs (DVMRP, GRE, IPSec/SSL VPNs,), Wireless (802.1a/b/g/n), Load-Balancing (GLB/SLB) or Multicast (PIM-SM, MSDP, IGMP).
• Able to code or script well in at least one language and ability to rapidly learn new languages, frameworks and APIs.
• Experience in managing relationships with cross-functional partners and IT vendors with sound knowledge of procurement and sourcing processes.

Salary Very attractive.     Job Title: RF/Transmission Operations Engineer (Planning/Optimization) Location: Lagos Job Description

• Ensure the best QOS delivered for the last mile end user
• Perform routine audits of network parameters and recommend remedial action where necessary.
• Handle and monitor the performance of new upgrades on the network
• Report directly to RF/Transmission Manager.
• To handle escalated complaints related to coverage and quality experienced by the users.
• To handle transmission backbone traffic routing
• Fixed Wireless Network Planning and optimization
• Capacity Dimensioning and Design
• Interference Analysis both Internal & External

Education and Qualifications

• BSc / HND in Computer Engineering/Telecommunications
• Strong communications skills both written and verbal.
• Independent problem solver combined with strong team orientation.
• Capable of making solid, fact-based decisions under pressure.
• Ability to work well in an international, multi-cultural, and high pressure technical environment.
• 3+ years of technical experience in a telecommunications or network operations environment.
• Knowledgeable in Cisco routers and switches configuration.
• Cisco Certified Network Associates (CCNA) and Certified Wireless Network Associate (CWNA) preferred.
• Good understanding of wireless communications is preferred.
• Experience: 4 years and above.

Salary Very attractive.       How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should send their tailored CV to: [email protected] Using the "Job Title" as the subject of the mail.   Application Deadline 15th July, 2019.   Note: Any application received after the above time will be automatically rejected.

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