Recent Vacancies at Alfred and Victoria Associates, 16th July, 2018

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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: General Manager, Cloud Location: Lagos Department: Technical Reporting Line: Chief Technical Officer Job Type: Permanent Responsibilities

• The General Manager, Cloud Services will have overall technical and business responsibility for Cloud and Managed Services
• He or she will have responsibility for the development and ownership of the portfolio of services in these areas, to achieve revenue growth and profitability objectives
• He or she will also work directly with customers, vendors and the technical teams to ensure that these targets are met.

Other Responsibilities include:

• Develop a long term vision for cloud services and managed services.
• Work with cross-functional teams to lead the development and management of new of Cloud and Managed services.
• Formulate strategies for delivering on the overall Cloud business objectives.
• Work with senior decision makers at a range of major clients, articulating the benefits of Managed Services.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of Cloud based solutions/services and customers' business issues to drive innovation in these areas.
• Ensure that it is suitably positioned, with appropriate skills, resources, and process to deliver a range of cloud services.
• Manage Cloud services revenue and business goals, manage the P & L and drive actions to rapidly accelerate growth and ensure profitability.
• Ensure the positioning of the company’s Cloud Infrastructure services to align with clients’ business needs.
• Gather technical, financial, market and other relevant information to create compelling products and services for the customer base, in line with company product roadmap.
• As required, share information with marketing leadership regarding business issues and industry information that could aid development of market-specific action plans and sales strategies.
• Support Marketing Team to develop and drive marketing campaigns and lead generation activities to maximize revenue contribution of the Cloud business to the company.
• Ensure a high level of post-sales satisfaction and facilitation of long term relationships and strong potential for repeat business.
• Prioritize activities according to revenue generation and corporate strategy to enable increased profitability.

Qualifications, Skills & Competencies

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Computer Science. Possession of an MBA will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years of relevant experience in technology roles, with at least eight (8) years’ experience in Product management, technical product development or Operations management.

Demand on the Job:

• Familiarity with Public & Private Clouds, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS including AWS, Azure and managed services; Azure or AWS based Cloud Architecture and migration skills and experience.
• Proven technical experience in the field of cloud services; hands on experience in creating and deploying complex cloud infrastructure solutions in small and large environments.
• Evidence of successful product launch and full lifecycle management.
• Evidence of total ownership of a product, supporting the supply chain in the company – engineering, operations, and profit and loss as a product owner.
• Ability to comprehend, develop and effectively execute business plans and opportunity analysis.
• Demonstrated ability, determination and tenacity to move major initiatives forward and drive focus while consistently thinking of the bottom-line impact of the efforts.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business documents (terms and conditions, technical procedures, etc.)
• Ability to track/manage product P&L once launched
• Ability to manage day to day Cloud and managed services operations and ensure effective project management and customer delivery.
• Knowledge of OEM technologies required to deliver Infrastructure as a service including Dell, EMC, HP, Microsoft Azure, VMWare, Firewalls, Load balancers, Storage solutions etc.
• Excellent oral, written and presentation skills (at C Level)
• Highly organized with great attention to detail.
• High level of Integrity and professionalism, especially in dealing with confidential information.
• Time and priority management skills.
• People management and negotiation skills.
• Superior analytical skills.

Salary

• Very Attractive.

    Job Title: Cloud Network and Security Engineer Location: Lagos Department: Technical Reporting Line: Cloud Operations Manager Job Type: Permanent Job Description

• We are seeking new talent to join our Cloud/Managed Service team. So, if you are a trained, motivated Network/Security Engineer with Cloud/Virtualization experience and are interested in a career delivering innovative solutions to our growing client base, then this is your ideal opportunity!

Responsibilities The specific responsibilities shall include to:

• You will work with diverse technologies on a team of highly skilled System Engineers responsible for the end-to-end ownership of the deployment, sustainability, performance, tuning, security and day-to-day operations of our cloud network and security infrastructure.
• You will build tools and automation to eliminate manual operations and craft repeatable processes, thereby maintaining a highly available infrastructure.
• You will be responsible for performing changes to maintain the reliability of the network as it grows. This is a mix of engineering and operations role with strong customer focus for a global, world-class IaaS provider operating 24x7x365.
• Comply with support processes and procedures to ensure customer satisfaction and service level objectives (SLO) are met.
• Provide level 2 technical support for cloud customer complaints.
• Identify, recommend and implement potential improvements to service efficiency.
• Ensure quality, up-to-date documentation exists for all services provisioned.

Qualifications, Skills & Competencies

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Sciences, Information Management or related engineering field is preferred.
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience working as Network and Security Administration/Engineer.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience working with Virtualization and Cloud Technology.
• CCNP Certification is required, Microsoft and AWS certification will be an added advantage.

Skills & Competencies:

• Experience working with large-scale networks.
• Experience working with Linux/Windows Operating System.
• Experience with virtualization and Cloud technologies.
• Excellent network latency analysis, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting skills.
• Assist in development of network device hardening standards.
• Good automation scripting ability (Bash/Shell, Python, PowerShell).
• Experience with Ethernet and IP networking fundamentals and extensive experience in the application of IP protocols.
• Knowledge and experience with major Internet routing protocols, network hardware and packet forwarding architectures.
• Configure/Install and manage various network security devices, features and technologies: Intrusion Detection/Prevention systems, Network Access control solutions, Web filtering solutions, Network packet brokers, network traffic visibility solutions.

Demand on the Job:

• Prioritizing skills.
• Troubleshooting skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Ability to take ownership.
• Ability to work under pressure.

Salary Very Attractive.     Job Title: Financial Planning & Analysis Manager Location: Lagos Department: Finance Reporting Line: Senior Manager, Financial Planning Job Type: Permanent Responsibilities

• Drive research and design analyses to evaluate strategic opportunities and deliver macro-economic assumptions for yearly budget.
• Develop an alarm system to track and monitor the business financial and non-financial KPIs.
• Determine and review the unitary cost of existing and new product streams using the best fit cost methodology (Marginal, Full absorption, Activity-Based Costing etc.).
• Prepare monthly Shareholders’ reports - Business dashboard, variance analysis and commentaries.
• Work closely with finance leadership on any ad-hoc analysis required for management and shareholders.
• Insurance administration – Procure insurance for new risks, prepare schedules for existing insurance cover renewals, etc.
• Ensure agreed strategic deliverables are tied into the yearly budget.
• Conceptualise and develop financial models and analyses to support the strategic initiatives and its subsidiaries.
• Prepare company-wide budget and forecast with detailed assumptions and drivers.
• Prepare long term financial plan in line with the business strategic map and initiatives.
• Analysis variances of budget expectations against actual and provide remedial plan to achieve KPIs.
• Produce decision statements on build or buy, adding or deleting a product, breakeven analysis, product profitability etc.
• Provide analytical report on projects in areas of appraisal, evaluation and valuation.

Qualifications, Skills & Competencies

• A degree in Accounting/Finance
• At least 5 years’ experience with at least 2 years performing financial modelling and analysis.
• Must possess demonstrated proficiency in spread sheet applications.
• Strong quantitative & analytical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Research & writing skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office particularly Excel.
• Proficiency in relevant accounting software will be an advantage.

Demand on the Job

• Knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, cost control techniques as well as proficiency with financial statement analysis and projections.
• Knowledge of overall business strategy and operations including business processes, revenue and cost components and drivers of these measures and general economic modelling.
• Able to research, analyse and interpret complex information and produce clear verbal and written reports.

Salary Very Attractive.     How To Apply Interested and qualified candidates should send their tailored CV's to: [email protected]   Application Deadline 23rd July, 2018.   Note: Any application received after the closing date will be automatically rejected.

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