Messaging and Collaboration Architect at Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy formulation and implementation expertise and business operation improvement skills.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Messaging and Collaboration Architect

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Total 11+ years with Minimum five (5) years of technical experience supporting a multi-site Lync environment ,Exchange and Active directory. with a minimum of three (3) year’s specific knowledge of Enterprise Voice integration solutions with Avaya Communication Manager,Cisco Cucm and other Gateway/PBX’s
• Minimum eight (8) Years of technical experience in support Exchange environment.
• Knowledge & familiarity with Exchange Server 2007/2010/2013and MS UM Dial-plans.
• Responsible for migrating Messaging and collaboration environment to O365
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Responsible for ongoing maintenance and support of the Exchange 2010/2013, O365 and Lync 2013 systems, and all associated infrastructure components.
• Tracking mails for various issues and reports as per management need
• Develop and implement strategies for providing facilitative support resulting in fewer incidents, increased availability, or accelerated deployments.

Skill Set/Experience

• Experience Azure Active Directory
• Experience in O365 Enterprise Mobility Suite
• Experience in Migrating large scale Messaging environments to O365
• Experience in configuring all O35 work loads
• Experience in configuring DirSync and SSO (ADFS)
• Experience in upgrading, installing, configuring, designing and migrating to Lync 2013
• Should be able to make HLD and LLD for Lync and should have experience creating design presentations on Lync 2013
• Should have Lync with Enterprise Voice experience namely:
• Must have Experience in Lync 2013 with full Voice and Video integration.
• Experience in utilizing Lync as a PBX replacement
• Experience in Sip trunking concepts and E1 and T1
• Must have diverse technical background with experience on multiple technologies
• Broad knowledge of Microsoft products and technologies and its integration with Lync Server
• Good in server administration and troubleshooting
• Good knowledge on the working for SBC, SBA, Director Server etc.
• Good knowledge on Working on Lync Audio/Video enabled polycom phones.
• Installing and managing the Exchange Server 2010, 2013 and latest
• Understanding internal, external mail flow and Troubleshooting Mail routing issues
• Good hands on experience in Various Disaster Recovery Scenarios
• Must have working knowledge of exchange aware third party antivirus program and SPAM filter software
• Experience in managing global configuration for Exchange.
• Strong understanding and experience with MS Exchange 2010 in an enterprise environment including backup and restore procedures, front end/back end setups, message flow and security.
• Experience with messaging and directory services technologies, including: LDAP (Active Directory), DHCP, DNS, SMTP, Internet domain records, group policy management.

Required experience with the following technologies

• Microsoft Lync Server 2010/2013
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010/2013
• Office 365 (Exchange online, Lync Online, Azure Active Directory ,EMS)
• Unified Messaging
• Windows Server 2008/2012
• Fundamental networking knowledge - IP, DNS, IP routing, Network Address Translation (NAT) etc.
• Windows 8.1/8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP
• Good understanding of ITIL/Service Management
• Should be certified on Polycom
• Should be certified in MCTS / MCITP (Lync/Exchange

Application Closing Date
18th March, 2016.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's to: [email protected] or [email protected] using 'M&C Architect' as subject of the mail.