Network Engineer at Tropical General Investments (TGI) Group

Tropical General Investments (TGI) Group is an international investment and holding company with over three decades in building sustainable businesses in fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), agriculture, agro-allied, healthcare, chemicals, real estate and oil and gas in 12 countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Republic of Benin, Morocco, UAE, India, South Africa, China etc. with an over 9,000 multicultural workforce.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Network Engineer

Location: Lagos (Office-based /field-based)
Job type: Permanent
Job Grade (Band 1 - 6): 3 
Office Travel (0% -100%): 0% - 30%
Department: Information Technology
Reports To: IT Operations Manager Supervises: Network Engineers

Job Duties / Responsibilities / Accountabilities

• Internally Relates with: IT Team members
• Externally Relates with: Technology Partners

Duties, Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Design, implement, administer and troubleshoot network infrastructure, including wireless access points, firewall, routers, switches and controllers within an enterprise environment.
• Ensure the network is maintained to a high level of security, performance and availability .
• Maximize network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages, scheduling upgrades, capacity management and collaborating with relevant teams on network optimization.
• Researching and integrating new technologies into the network life cycle.
• Interfacing with relevant resolver groups to resolve incidents.
• Testing networks for weakness or potential points of compromise, staying abreast of necessary updates, both functional and security.
• Managing email and internet filters.
• Configure routing and switching equipment, hosted IP voice services and firewalls in line with IT security policy.
• Liaise with project management teams, third-line engineers and service desk engineers on a regular basis.

Education / Knowledge, Skills, Attributes, Experience & Other Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field.
• 5+ years experience designing, implementing, administering and troubleshooting network infrastructure including wireless access points, firewalls, routers, switches and controllers within an enterprise environment.
• CCNP Certification required.
• In depth knowledge of network protocols.
• Ability to create accurate network diagrams and documentation for designing and planning networks.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.

Application Closing Date
28th August, 2022.