Hamilton Lloyd and Associates - As part of water sector reform initiatives to guarantee sustainable access to basic sanitation and basic water supply in Port Harcourt city, our client are implementing the first phase of the Port-Harcourt Water Supply and Sanitation Project with support from the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the World Bank (WB). They have therefore identified the immediate need to recruit competent and suitably qualified professionals to fill various positions within the organization."
The company has decided to start the search for an experienced IT Specialist and the position will be based in Port Harcourt:
Job Title: IT Specialist
Location: Port Harcourt
Job Summary
- To ensure the effective use of all available IT infrastructure, provide an efficient and reliable IT support for the operations within the company and to ensure information flow within and outside the organization.
Main Responsibilities
- Maintenance of hardware, software and services
- Maintain LAN, wireless and peripherals.
- Maintenance of hardware, software and services
- Purchasing, installing, diagnosing and fixing faults of new and old machines.
- Maintain web-server (a hired remote virtual machine), including DNS updates and secure tunnel used for database connectivity.
- Ensure a reliable service from service providers including telephones and broadband, copier, franking machine.
- Manage the servers to provide email
- Maintaining inventory of important IT tools
- Provide a limited level of reactive support to employee with technical queries.
- Provide basic training for use of our systems to new employees.
- You will also be an escalation point for our Help Desk team and will share in our 24/7 on-call responsibilities.
Job Specific Competencies/Skills
- A strong ICT background
- Possesses general understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design.
- Understands Internet, Intranet, Extranet and client/server architectures.
- Possesses a thorough understanding of capabilities
- IT software and hardware engineering
- Networking skills
- Training skills
- Network security
- System administration
- Importance of standards compliance in IT technologies, and open standards.
- Good IT security practice.
- Good understanding of an organization's duties.
Qualification and Experience
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in a computer Science or related course
- A good IT certification would be an added advantage
- Strong working knowledge of web management and network security
- Database management
- Good working knowledge of an operations system and a programming language
Experience
- 3 + years relevant working experience.
Application Closing Date
28th November, 2014
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward an updated version of their CV's to:
[email protected]
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