Unit Head - Cloud Infrastructure, Network and Security at Mutual Benefit Assurance Plc

Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc (MUTUAL) has evolved into a conglomerate consisting of value-adding companies with diverse interests in various sectors of the Nigerian economy through investments, strategic alliances, and partnerships. Today, MUTUAL is a leading brand in the Nigerian Insurance industry, with over 3,000 staff and marketing executives in its employment.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Unit Head, Cloud Infrastructure, Network and Security

Location: Lagos State
Employment Type: Full Time

Responsibilities

• Create a well-informed cloud strategy and manage the adaption process.
• Regularly evaluate cloud applications, hardware, and software.
• Develop and organize cloud systems.
• Work closely with IT security to monitor the company's cloud privacy.
• Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
• Offer guidance in infrastructure movement techniques including bulk application transfers into the cloud.
• Research, analyze and plan the establishment of innovative technologies and present suggestions for upgrades to improve the existing or replace the legacy physical and out-of-lifecycle virtual workloads and technologies.
• Participate in analyzing and evaluating the global cloud, virtualization, and security systems, and related processes to ensure that the technical objectives are consistent with the long-term company strategy.
• Participate in the scoping, advise on the design, and lead the execution phases of the various IT projects affecting the overall security, availability, and reliability of cloud-native and other virtualized systems and services. Proactively identify future capacity requirements, define, and implement appropriate performance thresholds per the Tiering-levels definition for project-driven solutions prior to the solution acceptance for operations handover.
• Identify the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, systems analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
• 10 + years of experience spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or operations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• Demonstrated knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes
• Experience as a team lead preferred.
• Experience with OCI, Azure, AWS and VMWare enterprise implementations
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments Knowledge of all components of an technical architecture
• Knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes
• Strong understanding of network architecture and application development methodologies
• Strong understanding of SOA, object-oriented analysis and design, and/or client/server systems

Application Closing Date
31st May, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume to: [email protected] using the job title as the subject of the mail.