Systems Administrator at IpNX Nigeria Limited

About the Role

An established company is recruiting a Systems Administrator responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, monitoring and maintenance of systems (hardware and software) and related infrastructure to enable continuous innovation within the information technology landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer server infrastructure in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements
• Install new and rebuild existing server infrastructure
• Configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, and storage
• Apply OS patches and upgrades regularly
• Identify and promote best systems administration practices and patterns
• Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures
• Contribute to and maintain enterprise system standards
• Perform continuous system and network monitoring
• Install monitoring agents and connect to monitoring systems
• Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusion and potential breach
• Ensure smooth running of all network monitoring systems for the enterprise network and core network nodes
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning
• Provide Tier II and other support services
• Create, change, and delete user accounts on information systems per request and as required
• Investigate and troubleshoot issues
• Provide support to the application development team
• Participate in disaster recovery planning and testing
• Install agents for backup systems and configure backup solutions
• Repair and recover from hardware or software failures
• Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies
• Identify approaches that leverage resources and provide economies of scale
• Research and recommend innovative and, where possible, automated approaches for system administration tasks

Required Qualifications

• B.Eng Degree

Location

Lagos, Nigeria