This role is responsible for the support, monitoring and maintenance of Finance Trust Bank’s Enterprise Compute, Storage and networking Systems. The role also includes designing, integrating, administering, and optimizing the bank’s Compute, Storage and networking enterprise components to achieve high performance of the various business applications and services.

Key Result Areas:
• Ensuring optimized performance, reliability, availability, stability, integrity and scalability of all aspects of Data Center Infrastructure components including but not limited to Servers, Storage, and Virtualization environments.
• Forecasting demand for storage, computing and networking infrastructure capacity and take appropriate action before capacity limits are reached to maintain standard operating thresholds.
• Implementing, testing, and maintaining data center back-ups and high-availability procedures to ensure systems availability.
• Measuring and optimizing Data center infrastructure performance and implementation plus execution of Disaster Recovery procedures.
• Maintain corporate IT infrastructure standards in regard to standard configuration manuals.
• Recommending equipment, supplies and materials for the purpose of acquiring required items and completing jobs efficiently.
• Carry out and monitor server deployment, configuration activities of all servers in on the bank network.
• Administration of Window Server services including but not limited to Active Directory domain controllers, Domain Name Systems, File, Pinter, VPN, Proxy servers etc. ensuring that each server meets 100% planned uptime and implementing any changes, patches and upgrades that may be required.
• Administration of Microsoft Exchange Server environment and implementing any changes, patches and upgraded that may be required.
• Analyze, troubleshoot and resolve any issues that may occur on the bank’s Data Center Compute, Storage and Networking environments.
• Be responsible for implementation of Data Center Maintenance procedures and guidelines, including 3rd party contract management.
• Implement best practices and policies for all enterprise systems.
• Undertake any other assignments related to information systems technology as may be assigned by supervisors from time to time.

Minimum educational and technical competence requirements:
• Bachelor of Science degree in computer science, Information Technology or any related field. ICT Certification in related IT field such as HPE, VMware, Microsoft, NetApp, EMC, Linux are a requirement.
• Minimum 3 years working experience in a busy ICT environment designing, integrating and administrating enterprise compute, storage and networking solutions
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve compute, storage and networking problems and maintain relevant documentation.
• Ability to implement and administer enterprise compute, storage and networking solutions
• Good analytical, diagnostic, communication and reporting skills.
• Good People management skills and ability to monitor third party contractors
• Ability to work independently with pro-activeness and a ‘Yes, I can do it attitude’