IHS Towers is the largest independent mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2001, IHS provides services across the full tower value chain – colocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services.
Today IHS Towers has operations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Rwanda. Following the recent acquisitions of MTN and Etisalat’s tower portfolios in Nigeria, IHS owns over 23,300 towers in Africa.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Manager, IT Networks
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Job Description
IT Network Administration:
Deploy LAN/WAN internet and any related infrastructure related services, device equipment’s and projects.
Management of all IT equipment’s in data centres and technical rooms
Backups for all equipment’s and other Network services
Ensuring all Service Requests are resolved and completed timely from Service Desk as per Operational Guidelines
Management of the Network Voice Infrastructure IHS Wide
Effective Monitoring up to 99.99% uptime Availability.
Ensure the health and security of the network
Ensure compliance of IP and VLAN distribution
Security system such as Firewalling, VPN configurations and management
Ensure Compliance with IT Security Policies and Baselines
Network standardized designs for the IHS Wide Network
Infrastructure strategy and transformation initiatives
IT Security Support:
Definition and implementation of proper and adequate levels of IT security across the organization, as per Operating Guidelines
Enforcement and maintenance of the Information Security Policy according to Networks Security Operational Guidelines
Implement security related projects to assure a zero-security risk environment
Elaboration of fall back and emergency procedures, as per Operating Guidelines
Adhered Governance, Risks and compliance procedures
Network and Security Monitoring:
Network equipment performance analysis to pro-actively prevent service interruptions
Production of internal Network and Security performance dashboards and reports
Security research and risk analysis to pro-actively ‘kill threats’
Issuing security alerts when required and implementing necessary shutdowns, rollbacks and workarounds
Initiate Problem and Change management, and Post-implementation reports
Network Security implementation
Infrastructure security prevention. Deny reachability access to unauthorized users
Escalation of serious security threats or breeches to Infrastructure Management and Service Quality Assurance
Cloud Network:
Network Architecture
Security - Azure Firewalling
Software Defined Networks
Secured Access Service Edge
Zero Trust Security
Express route services
BIG-IP
Azure, Huawei, AWS Cloud platforms etc.
Requirements
Bachelor's Degree / Diploma or higher in Computer Science/ Computer Engineering / Information Technology
ITIL certification
10 Years minimum experience in Network Operations/Infrastructure Administration
3 - 4 years minimum leadership experience
CISCO-certified Network, Collaboration, Security, Data Center or other equivalent networking qualification preferably
Network security qualification is recommended.
Microsoft Cloud certification is recommended.
LAN and WAN administration for Products not limited to Cisco, Sophos, Fortinet; Aruba, HPE, F5, Cloud Networks – Azure, AWS etcetera.
At least 3 – 4 years leadership experience.
Functional:
ITIL Savvy
Network services integration and management
Network Strategy and Design
Network Security expertise
Administrative experience (Routing, switching, collaboration and security)