Platform Engineering Lead - Lagos, Nigeria - Fosad Consulting

    Fosad Consulting
    Fosad Consulting Lagos, Nigeria

    1 week ago

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    Job Description

    • We are seeking a hands-on technical Platform engineering lead who will manage a team of Platform Engineers accountable for enterprise-wide system administration, availability, performance, costs, security and risk management for our global infrastructure estate.
    • The infrastructure landscape spans across multiple geographic regions including UAE, KSA, South Africa and wider Africa. It covers core platforms like Oracle/x86, Oracle VM, VMWare, Hyper-V, Unix, Linux and Windows servers, storage systems, data protection, Network, Network security and Databases.
    • The Platform engineering team provides 24/7 engineering support for this complex interconnected system ecosystem that underpins the company's technology operations and services delivery.

    Requirements
    Education:

    • Educated to Degree level from a recognized university in Computer Science or relevant subject in Technology. Preferably holds an Engineering Degree.

    Professional:

    • At least 5+ years of experience in a Technology / IT function in a recognized international organization
    • In-depth knowledge of x86 & SPARC Hardware, Solaris OS & Oracle Virilizations LDOMS/Zones
    • In-depth knowledge of RedHat Linux OS + Windows Server
    • In-depth knowledge of VMWare vSphere, vRCLI & vROPS, ARIA
    • Excellent Knowledge in High-end and Mid-range storages PowerMax/PowerStore/DataDomain/ECS including design and replication technologies.
    • In-depth Knowledge of Enterprise backup solutions Networker/NetBackup.
    • In-depth Knowledge in Veritas Cluster including fault tolerant configuration and maintenance.
    • Design and deploy systems with HA.
    • Should have very strong working knowledge on OS & Infrastructure Application patching, maintaining Oracle Solaris 11 Patching Repository, RedHat Satellite servers & Qualys patching tool.
    • Performance Tuning skills in OS Unix/Linux / Storage & Backup.
    • Excellent Knowledge in Ansible automation tools and scripting
    • Experience in Public Cloud OCI/Azure/AWS
    • Proven expertise in computer science, software engineering and information systems preferably for financial services industry
    • International certification on RedHat Linux, Solaris, VMWare, Storage, Backup products will be added advantage.

    Personal:

    • Excellent analytical and problem management skills.
    • Dedicated approach to service management
    • Excellent written and oral communication skills.