Lead IT Infrastructure Support (Manager) 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 blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Lead IT Infrastructure Support (Manager)

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Develop short term and long term IT infrastructure technology roadmap.
• Diagnose and ascertain technology requirements; make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IT infrastructure and systems
• Direct research and other analysis to support IT planning; direct research on potential technology solutions
• Develop business cases and undertake cost-benefit analyses to justify or support IT spending and initiatives.
• Negotiate, administer and manage vendor, outsourcer, and consultant contracts and service agreements with in conjunction with Procurement and other relevant business units
• Manage all aspects of the IT Department including the financial purchasing, budgeting, and budget review.
• Manage the delivery or provision of a complete range of Information Technology Services covering storage, systems and devices, ERP etc
• Implement IT projects and initiatives efficiently and effectively for best outcomes; approve and oversee projects and project portfolio.
• Manage the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of all IT systems, including servers, PCs, operating systems, hardware, software, and peripherals.
• Oversee provision of end-user services, including help desk and technical support services.

Requirements
Experience:

• At least 8 years' experience which includes:
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in an area of specialization; with experience in supervising/managing others
• Experience working in a medium to large organization
• Experience in IT and Business and systems Analysis and related disciplines; specifically IT infrastructure and Solution environment
• Experience in UNIX, LINUX, SOLARIS and ORACLE.
• Hands on experience at Enterprise Architecture level
• Experience in planning and managing Infrastructure based projects and services inclusive of demonstrated experience in Security solutions and technologies at or before deployment
• Strong experience working in a complex Infrastructure environment
• Strong experience in infrastructure architecture, data centers, servers, Database administration, Backup, Storage, SAN Switch and networks
• Experience with emerging technology, such as cloud computing, desktop virtualization, Hadoop, Mongo DB and Unified communications

Education:

• First Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent
• Fluent in English
• Masters advantageous.

Cetifications:

• Functional Skills Development
• Certified IS Security Practitioner (CISSP)
• COMTIA Adv. Security Practitioner (CASP)
• Secure Development
• Lead Implementer – Cyber Resilience
• Certified Governance Enterprise I
• ISO 27001 Lead Implementation
• ISO 27005 Risk management

Application Closing Date
31st January, 2020.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV (in MS Word not PDF), current and expected salary to: [email protected] , [email protected] [email protected] and [email protected] with the job title as the subject of the mail.