Platform Engineering Lead at Fosad Consulting

Fosad Consulting, LLC. is a professional services firm established to provide quality consulting services to desiring clients, whose primary objective is to focus their management and technical resources on their core competence.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Platform Engineering Lead

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• We are seeking a hands-on technical Platform engineering lead who will manage a team of Platform Engineers accountable for enterprise-wide system administration, availability, performance, costs, security and risk management for our global infrastructure estate.
• The infrastructure landscape spans across multiple geographic regions including UAE, KSA, South Africa and wider Africa. It covers core platforms like Oracle/x86, Oracle VM, VMWare, Hyper-V, Unix, Linux and Windows servers, storage systems, data protection, Network, Network security and Databases.
• The Platform engineering team provides 24/7 engineering support for this complex interconnected system ecosystem that underpins the company's technology operations and services delivery.

Requirements
Education:

• Educated to Degree level from a recognized university in Computer Science or relevant subject in Technology. Preferably holds an Engineering Degree.

Professional:

• At least 5+ years of experience in a Technology / IT function in a recognized international organization
• In-depth knowledge of x86 & SPARC Hardware, Solaris OS & Oracle Virilizations (LDOMS/Zones)
• In-depth knowledge of RedHat Linux OS + Windows Server
• In-depth knowledge of VMWare vSphere, vRCLI & vROPS, ARIA
• Excellent Knowledge in High-end and Mid-range storages (PowerMax/PowerStore/DataDomain/ECS) including design and replication technologies.
• In-depth Knowledge of Enterprise backup solutions (Networker/NetBackup).
• In-depth Knowledge in Veritas Cluster including fault tolerant configuration and maintenance.
• Design and deploy systems with HA.
• Should have very strong working knowledge on OS & Infrastructure Application patching, maintaining Oracle Solaris (11) Patching Repository, RedHat Satellite servers & Qualys patching tool.
• Performance Tuning skills in OS (Unix/Linux) / Storage & Backup.
• Excellent Knowledge in Ansible automation tools and scripting
• Experience in Public Cloud (OCI/Azure/AWS)
• Proven expertise in computer science, software engineering and information systems preferably for financial services industry
• International certification on RedHat Linux, Solaris, VMWare, Storage, Backup products will be added advantage.

Personal:

• Excellent analytical and problem management skills.
• Dedicated approach to service management
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Application Closing Date
25th April, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.