DMKConsultancy is committed to helping organisations increase their productivity through better use of their human resources and to enable companies to achieve real competitive advantages. Our skills and expertise cover a wide range of HR activities and initiatives. The programmes we design are developed to meet specific organisational needs. We work across all industry sectors, employing a simple yet effective approach to each project. By developing long-term strategic partnerships with Private and Public sector organisations, we are well placed to offer ” best of breed ” solutions to our clients, whilst maintaining focus on the needs of our candidates.
Job Purpose:
Responsible for maintaining Company’s IT backend infrastructure and services and assisting in data management functions. The tasks involve maintaining, improving, securing, configuring and ensuring validity of databases, servers, data backups with a focus of reliability and recoverability to assist in maintaining the SLAs with regards to IT services. Assist IT section in providing advanced IT services to end users with approved our applications and ensures change and service management are maintained to highest standards at all times.
Qualifications and Skills:
- University graduate in information technology (IT). (Preferably in information systems).
- Minimum of 5 years experience in a systems administration or similar role in a medium to large organization.
- In-depth working knowledge of backend enterprise applications based primarily on Microsoft architectures (MS-Exchange, Microsoft Operations Manager, Systems Management Server, SQL Server). MCSE qualification preferred.
- Sound understanding and experience in IT security principles, practices, standards, methodologies and tools
- Strong understanding and some experience in data management (includes notions of data and systems backup and recovery, tiered storage, archiving)
- Having strong initiative, self motivated, dependable and able to multi-task in a dynamic IT environment.
- Strong understanding & appreciation of other cultures & cross-cultural integration in multifaceted environment
- Highly developed communication and language skills in written & spoken English (with ability to transfer knowledge efficiently to end-users whenever necessary.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Ensuring that configuration management of backend IT infrastructure is maintained to highest levels (ITIL / MOF / ISO 27001 - security).
- Ensuring high IT services availability with assisting in development and maintenance of disaster recovery plans, business continuity plans, backend equipment at both HO and Disaster Recovery site.
- Ensures that the data backup architecture is operating as intended, backups are valid and regular restore tests are established.
- Assist in developing and maintain multi-tiered data storage and enterprise archiving solutions.
- Ensures that all necessary documentation and reports from advanced infrastructure reporting tools are provided on timely basis and usable for auditing and performance monitoring purposes.
- Assume Sr. IT Engineer role and responsibilities during his absence
- Assist Sr. IT Engineer to develop, install, support and maintain the backend IT infrastructure, equipment, software and services.
- Actively pursue best practices to maximize use of existing resources.
Apply at CV@dmkconsultancy.com.