Network Engineer at Growth in Value Alliance (GVA) Partners Limited

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 blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Network Engineer

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• To plan, install, configure, maintain, support, and optimize network hardware and software and communication links.
• To handle and networking infrastructure of CRC to improve the efficiency. Responsible for the down time and uptime of the CRC network.
• To identify and remediate the potential security threats and assesses network vulnerabilities.

Key Responsibility Areas

• Manage network hardware which includes routers, switches, firewalls, wireless access points, VPN concentrators, multiplexers, and UPS systems
• Administer security-related systems such as VPN servers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and network monitoring systems
• Monitor VPNs, server and firewall logs, intrusion detection logs, and network traffic for unusual or suspicious activity and take appropriate action
• Recommend and schedule network improvements, upgrades and repairs
• Evaluate and recommend new networking and security products and technologies for use at CRC
• Implement security standards, foresee potential security threats and avoid them.
• Responsible for implementation of Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan
• Implement firewalls and information security policy
• Conduct network vulnerability tests and perform periodic security audits and assessments
• Liaison with vendors on all services and upgrades provided by them to CRC.
• Management of the service switching between primary and secondary sites.
• Monitoring of virtual servers hosting the individual components of the application and ensuring optimal utilization of the resources.
• Management of VMWare virtual servers
• Maintain and administer all Data/ Voice communications with their respective systems and equipment
• Supervise and control the internet and intranet servers
• Ensure network and IP connectivity of workstations, servers, and back-end office infrastructure
• Diagnose and resolve local and wide area network problems and performance issues
• Define, develop and implement network security measures.
• Define and implement information security guidelines
• Responsible for User-ID management and password management
• Responsible for the implementation and administration of business and work tools to employees
• Administer and implement physical & logical access at CRC
• Assure security policies, processes, tools and architectures
• Monitoring the network constantly for security threats
• Manage CRC’s IT Infrastructure including maintenance and replacement as may be required

Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s degree in an IT related discipline with a minimum of 5 years database management experience
• Have good knowledge of storage infrastructure administration
• Strong background as an Engineer/Architect in application security infrastructure and various network technologies to include devices such as firewalls, VPN, intrusion/extrusion detection, vulnerability & risk assessment tools, encryption technologies, virus/worm/malware prevention.
• Managing network/ network security and should be current with network security best practices and global trends.
• Experience in researching new or emerging technologies and processes that may be incorporated as solutions to reoccurring security concern.

Application Closing Date
16th June, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: contact@gvapartners.com and tisea@gvapartners.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.